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.

Reading things like this, it escapes me how anyone can believe that this type of thing is not a mental illness. It's madness, but even more insane are the people supporting it and playing along. Too weird.

Pregnancy definitely isn't easy! I hope things go as well as they can for you. It's a slog for sure. This story really got my back up as well. Ultimately he is cos-playing being pregnant. That makes the pregnancy as real as the guy who dressed as Batman for comic-con!

Came to see if anyone had posted this.(Thanks for the effort, there is also a transcription on the NYT site!)

This guy's blog has also been extensively archived - you can read 6 years' worth of posts about his life if you want to verify. The impact of his paraphilia and his behaviour has been horrifying for his wife and young children. Yet he has been sympathetically profiled in a major mainstream media publication.

Not sure why people assumed this was a troll or ragebait - it's not even especially uncommon - pregnancy/lactation fetishes are just one flavour of the overarching paraphilia that is the main driver of trans-identification in men.

In a nutshell.

I got it 😂

WTAF

Thanks x

Very good 👍

HE needs to see a Psychiatrist.

Him. He.

It was fairly obvious 🤔😃

I'm afraid this is exactly what you can expect when you argue for men in women's spaces to affirm their delusions about themselves.

Single sex spaces for women exist because women need them on account of their unchangeable biology. Once you let a man in there to "affirm" something about him that isn't true, it is no longer single sex and it is no longer to protect women from men, because it explicitly does not. It becomes all about the man and nothing but a validation tool for him.

But if you think it's OK to let a man into a women's space because it affirms something that isn't true but he wants it to be, there really is no reason not to let him hijack a support space for stillbirth. Obviously he's never had and never can have a stillbirth because he's a man. But he's never been and never can be a woman either for the same reason, so if he's allowed into the ladies' because it affirms the lie that he is, he can get into this group too for exactly the same reason. As he did. And so it was no longer a stillbirth support group but an affirmation tool for him, so of course you can chuck out the women who actually suffered this tragedy. It's no longer for them.

And gender ideology would make it impossible for them to create a new group that he couldn't crash. No way to get a space of their own.

This is "trans rights". It's not simply dressing and presenting and calling yourself as you like.

Are you ready to join us?

Bonkers.

Bonkers.

People need help.

And that's also how you know everyone knows he's a man. If a woman who hadn't experienced a stillbirth tried to get in because she wanted to play act it, she'd be told to fuck right off and stop being such a sick ghoul. But a man wants it to affirm a different lie, that he's a woman, and he can find somewhere that'll do it.

Can you explain what you mean by that? In what way do you think this person has shown courage?

This with bells on!!

I actually blame the simpering halfwits who enabled him more. (Not anyone on this thread, obviously).

Mark Carney in Davros was not talking about trans ideology and how we are all supposed to believe in and support the Trans Rights Activists and the Trans Women Are Women diktat , but Vaclav Havel’s story applies to all applications of groupthink:

“In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. And in it, he asked a simple question: How did the communist system sustain itself?
And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: "Workers of the world, unite!" He doesn't believe it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists.
Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.
Havel called this "living within a lie." The system's power comes not from its truth but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing — when the greengrocer removes his sign — the illusion begins to crack.
Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down.”

It's fucking disgusting and an insult to women everywhere. HE needs locking up
I'll be dammed if I bring my child up to think this utter mental bullshit is in anyway ok

This is where sacrificing yourself to the altar of gender ideology and chanting TWAW! gets you.
And there’s plenty on here.

Substitute 'trans' with the word 'fake' to clear up the confusion. Fake-man, fake-woman.

There's a lot of crazy stuff online. Best not read it.

They were joking.

Wtaf? Is this for real?