Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Trans protest- sharing for balance

1000 replies

Tandora · 20/04/2025 11:47

There’s a thread sharing some really awful images from the protest, so I wanted to share some positive ones for the sake of some perspective/ balance.
A lot of people are really understandably incredibly angry and overwhelmed by the events of the last few days. But most people who support trans rights absolutely don’t condone fighting oppression and injustice with misogyny.

Trans protest- sharing for balance
Trans protest- sharing for balance
Trans protest- sharing for balance
Trans protest- sharing for balance
Trans protest- sharing for balance
OP posts:
Thread gallery
19
Willyoujustbequiet · 20/04/2025 13:38

WhatIsAScottishEgg · 20/04/2025 11:52

The point is that there is no distinction between "cis men" and "trans women". They are both biologically male and therefore are a threat to women. Not all men, but always men.

This.

FOJN · 20/04/2025 13:38

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:36

If you insist that trans women are men you are absolutely erasing trans people

Oh stop it. "Words are literal violence" is so 2018. People don't evaporate just because other people use accurate language to describe them.

Hoppinggreen · 20/04/2025 13:38

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:36

If you insist that trans women are men you are absolutely erasing trans people

How is stating a fact (that has now been clarified in law) erasing someone?

DragonRunor · 20/04/2025 13:39

Tandora · 20/04/2025 12:09

They are protesting against women's sex based rights.

They are protesting fascism.

Edited

Oh for fucks sake. Go away, look up fascism.

You seem to think that women should be forced to undress in front of, and receive intimate care/treatment from unknown males, even when they’ve expressly said they do not consent; and that not allowing males such access is fascism……. Can you explain why you think that?

TheKeatingFive · 20/04/2025 13:39

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:37

perfect example right here

Perfect example of citing scientific facts clearly. Get used to

Berryslacks · 20/04/2025 13:39

@Namechange7598 I agree. In addition I think the usual ‘rent a mob’ turned up just to cause trouble. There were a large proportion of ‘protesters’ wearing masks and I guess they don’t give a fig about ‘the cause’. They are just your common or garden anarchists. Same as Just Stop Oil and all the other nutters.

Hoppinggreen · 20/04/2025 13:40

FOJN · 20/04/2025 13:38

Oh stop it. "Words are literal violence" is so 2018. People don't evaporate just because other people use accurate language to describe them.

Unless they are fairies

Scentbird · 20/04/2025 13:40

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:30

Is your comprehension so low?

Do you think this contributes to your argument?

Yes.

I am pointing out that your comprehension is low, if you think wanting women’s spaces for women, means anyone is trying to make trans women disappear.

you clearly are not comprehending the conversation. Or are you saying you are doing it on purpose? Because no one is trying to make transwomen disappear.

I mean how transphobic are you? If trans women can not force their way into female spaces, they don’t exist? That’s what you are saying isn’t it. That women don’t want transwomen in their spaces as an attempt to disappear. So you must believing trans women can only exist while trying to control women and have access to their spaces. Otherwise they disappear?

You posted signs that are ‘the other side of the story’ yet the sign you posted is transphobic. So is it lack of comprehension or are you purposely misunderstanding because you are so desperate to placate biological men?

Willyoujustbequiet · 20/04/2025 13:40

Tandora · 20/04/2025 11:54

The point is that you are completely wrong about that and it is deeply oppressive to try to enforce policies that say so.

No they aren't wrong and the only oppression that's been going on is of women.

VeraWangTea · 20/04/2025 13:40

Hmmmm how come we’re not allowed to be angry about the use of woman being erased?

Chest feeders
‘Cis’
Birthing parent

Minuethippo · 20/04/2025 13:40

TheKeatingFive · 20/04/2025 11:53

How is anyone supposed to tell the difference between a predatory man and a genuine transwoman?

And at some level, isn't anyone accessing women's spaces without woman's consent, predatory regardless?

How is anyone telling the difference between a cis woman and a trans woman ?

PastIsAnotherCountry · 20/04/2025 13:40

Dontcallmescarface · 20/04/2025 13:34

I will support the trans community in the fight for their own safe spaces, but I won't support them in the fight to deny actual woman their own safe spaces.
If trans "women" are so intent on saying not everyone with a penis is a threat then what's the issue with them using male toilets....after all not everyone with a penis is a threat right?

Edited

The dilemma known as #NotAllSnakes (attribution lost).

TV idea NotAllSnakes

Those who say “Not all transwomen/men who larp as women/men are instructed to enter a pit with a variety of snakes. Not all of them are venomous.

Fourfurrymonsters · 20/04/2025 13:40

No, I’m really not. And gently - apply your own principles to this and understand that you don’t get to tell people what to think or how to act on that.

aylis · 20/04/2025 13:40

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:36

If you insist that trans women are men you are absolutely erasing trans people

Insisting they are women is erasing the female sex as a definable group.

ThatCyanCat · 20/04/2025 13:40

I've long wondered what the death rattle of this violent, misogynistic, pseudo-intellectual, gaslighting, dishonest movement would look like. It hasn't surprised me.

I haven't needed to wonder what Tandora's threads are like. They've been going on like this since forever. I can't remember all of them. I switched off after the "but here's a DSD so men belong in women's spaces" one. That was about two years ago, I think, and it was five years out of date then.

IrisPallida · 20/04/2025 13:41

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:36

If you insist that trans women are men you are absolutely erasing trans people

I am sorry but you are doing huge harm to trans people with this sort of argument. You are doing harm.

I think you know this and that you are placing activism above the need to represent the rights of the trans community because you need something to be angry about and women are a easy target.

But, we see you. We are well experienced in this type of male anger, and we see you.

Naunet · 20/04/2025 13:41

I couldn't care less about agressive, misogynistic men having a meltdown because women are recognised as a sex class seperate from them. Maybe they can reframe their 'trauma'.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 20/04/2025 13:41

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:31

The protesters are protesting a dangerous new variety of fascism that has taken increasing hold of the public discourse and our public institutions

Where are you copying and pasting this stuff from? What you’re saying is that facts are fascist, that a logical, rational, reasoned argument is fascist because you don’t agree with it? Do you realise what an anti intellectual view that is?

It’s used by people who know they have no rational or logical argument, in an attempt to shut down coherent debate. It’s straight out of the Stonewall no debate handbook. I’m assuming you’re a university student who has swallowed this ideology whole. I can only hope that one day you see it for what it is, regressive, homophobic, misogynistic and dishonest.

Dymaxion · 20/04/2025 13:41

I genuinely don't understand why TW are so upset ? No rights have been removed from them have they ?
All that has happened is that the SC have clarified the law, regarding where biological sex can be seen as a reasonable reason for not giving access to those of the other biological sex.

Hoppinggreen · 20/04/2025 13:41

Minuethippo · 20/04/2025 13:40

How is anyone telling the difference between a cis woman and a trans woman ?

Edited

IF you mean a Woman and a TW
By looking at them

Blondiebeachbabe · 20/04/2025 13:41

I was in a lovely restaurant the other day, and what they have done is make their 2 toilets unisex, with a wash basin inside. Absolutely no danger posed there, and you would think it was a solution, BUT, both loos had had men in them before me, as both seats were up and there was piss all over the loo and floor. In both loos! So before I could wee, I had to get tissue and clean the seat, but even then there was piss on the base of my shoes, so it's utterly grim. So there's another reason why I don't want to share a loo with men.

Dontcallmescarface · 20/04/2025 13:41

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:35

Trans people need to be recognised for who they are. Not othered and outed every time they need to use a basic public facility

And women need to be recognised for who we are and not viewed as a subset of our own sex. You can't have it both ways....if trans people want us to respect their views and who they are, then the least we deserve is the same courtesy. How many women have you seen holding up placards say "decapitate trans people", how many women have threated to rape or kill a trans person simply because they don't agree with their views? Yet we have that every sodding time.

Snorlaxo · 20/04/2025 13:41

Tandora · 20/04/2025 13:26

Every single person who says that trans women are men for one.

Women can’t be transwomen- only men can become transwomen.

Why isn’t the TRA mantra TW are TW because nobody reasonable can argue with that one? Deep down you know it’s because getting rid of women’s only spaces is the goal.

Alondra · 20/04/2025 13:41

aylis · 20/04/2025 13:37

The 'trans' people I know generally fall into a few different categories - the main one being older males with significant distress in relation to their sexed bodies - the people we all thought we were supporting at the beginning of this.

Young women, usually lesbians, identifying as male or 'non binary' for a host of reasons.

And a massive third group who have pissed all over women, pissed all over the work of our foresisters, don't experience dysphoria, have removed the requirement for dysphoria, support unfettered self ID, and are generally just all-round arseholes.

I obviously don't have the experience with different trans but I can assure you, some of them are creating serious problems in the LGBTQ movement.

Many lesbians are complaining feeling pressured to have a relationship with a trans woman, when they don't want it.

BabyOrca · 20/04/2025 13:41

We aren't buying what you're selling OP. And we never will. You can start all the threads in the world and it won't change a thing.

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is not accepting new messages.