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.

@FairKoala it was classed as a mental illness till the World Health Organisation changed that in 2019.

The Green Party support trans women are women.

They are creepy sick individuals and yet they are praised by some. The world has gone mad. Time for rational, logical and factual sex based reality to return. Trans identified folk might feel they are the opposite sex, they aren't.

Publicity stunt for other nutters.

I don't worry too much about this or that being praised online. A lot of people say a lot of crap online. And there are bots and so on.

It's sad. But no point in getting into a froth about it. All this gnashing of teeth over this sort of thing is a bit pointless IMHO. Its like women with those weird fake babies. Let them get on with it.

Why are you using female pronouns to refer to this highly disturbed man?

It's more than that though. There are men indulging in these fantasies and expecting to be given support and sympathy, as if they were actual women going through it.

We need to just shut down this kind of nonsense.

It’s nothing like that, because this is a man with a sexual fetish.

Oh hi, Viv.

Severe mental illness regardless of how it presents itself is to be pittied & subsequently treated where possible.

And should thus be viewed with suspicion and contempt.

Was my statement unclear?

I agree. I'm fed up of living in the Land of Make Believe!

I agree with you. Anyone that spouts trans women are women and ignores sex based concerns should be viewed with suspicion.

I agree with you and you are not being unreasonable.

However, you are buying into all this shite by saying "transgender woman" and "she" and "her".

We should always say, Man and He and His. This removes any doubt and stops us even half playing this game.

This person is a man. He is a Man. if he feels it is unfair that men cannot carry children then he should take it up with God.

But please can we stop calling men women and using female pronouns for men.

This is how they have sneaked in and we must not buy in to it by repeating nonsense.

A man is a man. There are no grey areas.

YABU to say it's a "bit" nuts. It's certifiable.

I think about nine people have corrected me on this.

The reason I used the wrong pronouns is because I was seriously ill at the time.

I felt strongly about the issue I still posted my response which, and please be fair, was not in the man’s favour.

I simply made a made a mistake.

P.S. I do think the whole trans men and trans women descriptors are confusing in themselves.

P.S. I do think the whole trans men and trans women descriptors are confusing in themselves.

Yes they are and deliberately so

I'm guessing he's had the baby now? Is there an update?

There's literally nothing to suggest this actually happened...

Some people do anything for a bit if attention… it’s completely bonkers.

It shocks me the amount of women who encourage this behaviour and think it’s absolutely fine and totally normal. While the rest of us who live in the real world think they all need mental help and for people to stop going alone with their delusions.

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