AIBU to think this is a bit nuts? Trans woman is being praised online for still working at 37 weeks into her "simulated" pregnancy

[CalmGreenEagle]

I have just read on Facebook about this transgender woman, Gabrielle Darone, aged 32, who simulated a pregnancy last year in order to address "gender dysphoria about not being able to carry a child". She wore a fake belly and simulated morning sickness, breathing difficulties, tiredness and other symptoms. She blogged about her experience and received a lot of praise online for still continuing to work at 37 weeks into her "pregnancy".

AIBU to think this is just crazy? Wearing a fake belly and pretending to have pregnancy symptoms is absolutely NOTHING like the real difficulties that women who are actually pregnant have to go through. Sometimes I think I am on a different planet.

Very Gilead!!

Such a fucking insult to women.

I can’t say I what I think otherwise I’ll get banned.

Did they pay maternity leave?

That sounds kind of….pervy.

Why are people going along with this nonsense?!?!

Ffs, it’s madness.

It was even worse than that.

He simulated a still birth and then went on breastfeeding sites asking to breastfeed someone else's baby because it would help him with his grief.

It's all on Reddit if you google.

I am obviously a bit late to the party. I just found out it was actually 5 years ago when this happened and it gets worse. Darone took drugs to stimulate "contractions" by pretending to give birth, then wanted to take drugs to induce lactation and asked in a FB group for breastfeeding mothers if someone could "lend" their baby to her so she could indulge her breastfeeding fetish. Jesus wept.

I mean yes, obviously that is batshit.

She needs to see a psychiatrist.

The people praising her are virtue signalling and enabling her by pretending to believe this is a pregnancy.

How far can she carry this on? Will she give birth to a doll?

I think indulging someone else's delusion is a bigger sign of mental illness but tbh the amount of pandering we're expected to do to avoid being called hateful would make anyone feel like they're going mad.

I've just read up on a lot of the extra details that I'd missed.

I'm normally quite supportive of trans rights but this person is so clearly mentally ill it is hard to not conclude that there is something seriously wrong with them.

He.

He and him.

He belongs in jail.

He.

There used to be institutions whereby people could be cared for. Now they walk among us

A very mentally unwell man. Should be working with a psychiatrist and not be in work while experiencing such serious delusions.

Madness.

Absolutely fucking ridiculous - why are these people indulged?

Absolute insanity!

Apart from the madness of this, who is paying for this? I hope it's not the NHS/taxpayer.

This person is mentally unwell and needs psychiatric treatment. There is no 2 ways about it.

They should not be indulged by people on social media but unfortunately there’s tons of absolute nutter on the internet and they find each other.