Apparently the word 'female' is transphobic now

[SuperstarDeejay]

According to an attention-seeking Aussie reality TV 'star'.

Apologies for DM link.

Abbie Chatfield calls very common word a 'slur' and 'transphobic' - so do you agree? | Daily Mail Online

You couldn't make this shit up.

Can someone post a link to the "it never happens" thread for @ZippyGoose

I tend to think this type of moral panic stuff usually sorts itself out and sensibleness prevails, truly.

It doesn't sort itself out. There isn't a magic social panic sorting out fairy that waves a magic wand and transforms people's thinking and behaviour.

It gets sorted out by people, usually women, asserting their rights, asserting safeguarding boundaries, and insisting that people think again. It gets sorted out by women putting in the time and effort to make sure it gets sorted out. Like so many other things in life.

Here you go @ZippyGoose: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3348290-It-will-never-happen-resource-thread

It has already happened. No 'moral panic' here. 'In 2017, a rapist whose birth name was Stephen Wood, but who changed his name to Karen White, was placed in a women’s prison where he sexually assaulted two women.' www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/resources/men-have-no-place-womens-prisons Trans women were put in women's prisons with predictable consequences. In 2023 the MoJ changed it so trans women with penises and sex offenders had to go to male prisons but before that they really were put in women's prisons. In the article I link to the author says it's still not acceptable to house transgender men in women's prisons and I agree but that's where we are now.

Sorry, that last sentence should say 'transgender women'

This female believes that the word "transphobic" itself is up there with "blasphemy". The word itself has no real meaning because its based on an imagined state of reality.

Do you think the word "males" is also transphobic?

IMO If people find it so hard to just accept themselves without making a song and dance about it, why should society accept them at all?

The whole thing is a circus.

Also when you say 'females' it sounds more like someone's stating a fact about a group of people,' she continued.

Well, yes. Exactly.

I don't like referring to women as "females" as it's usually derogatory or reductive. The linked person seems a bit unclear in her rambling, but is probably picking up on the way it's used. Nowt to do with transphobia of course.

On a side note, why do so many people start sentences with "I feel like..." or "it feels..." It seems like a strange symptom of feelings replacing facts. My students structure sentences like this all the time. "It feels like Dickens is saying x" or "I feel like Golding is introducing y theme". Rarely, do they say "I think".

And here’s the this never happens in sport Insta page

They/them/she/her/he/him/me/not me/I'm a Martian/you're a Teapot......

Honestly as a feminist there are soooo many more worrying things on my radar. Low rape convictions. Domestic violence. Pay inequality.

And how the hell are we women ever going to get progress on these issues when the lived female experience is being hijacked by men?

Honestly as a feminist there are soooo many more worrying things on my radar. Low rape convictions. Domestic violence.

If rape and violence are your concerns (as they rightly should be) then aren’t you worried about opening up women’s hard-fought-for single sex spaces to male-bodied people?

I don’t care how anyone identifies - life your best life - but I don’t want any male-bodied people, however they identify, in women's single-sex spaces.

This isn't even about trans-identifying people. Anyone can now say they identify as a woman, and get admittance to our spaces.

Of course males with ill intent will take advantage of that.

Exactly. 👏🏼 can’t have anything for ourselves. Even changing rooms now too that can be accessed by trans “women” The menopause- now there’s one recognised for men too. We are being gaslit that we are female because apparently ovaries wombs and generally women’s gynae issues aren’t real and don’t make us any more female than trans women.
Men are the main problem. In almost everything. Crime. War. Violence. Abuse. Female oppression.

@TheMessiahIsMySister ah that's a good one - I'll check that out on instagram. There's another one here: https://www.shewon.org/

Yes I find females a bit derogatory too, and like a nature documentary. ‘The female of the species will often eat her young’. But the usage is everywhere now… why can’t we just say women like the good old days.
fun fact, I only know Abbie chatfield is because a popular aboriginal insta account said she was transphobic 😂😂 leopards eating faces indeed.

@ZippyGoose

Honestly as a feminist there are soooo many more worrying things on my radar. Low rape convictions. Domestic violence. Pay inequality.
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You're very much out of the loop.
Here's 2 things:

1. Rapes (and remember the definition of rape includes a penis) are being recorded as female crimes because of Rapid Onset Prison Dysphoria (or just a man in a dress).
   Just one transwomen convicted of sexual assault or rape and their crime recorded as female will skew the figures immensely (currently approx 120 women in prison for SA), compared to 11,000 men.

2. Pay inequality. We can't measure this accurately anymore because most workplaces who have been Stonewalled have removed 'Sex' from their personal records databases and replaced with "gender identity". For those of us who don't have a gender identity we have to select the "N/A". Transwomen will select Woman, and it only takes one highly paid male in a dress to distort the numbers.

So yes, saying the abolishment of the words use to describe and protect us is very important, if you care about those 2 things.^

I think we should stop trying to find rational explainations as to why irrational people are saying irrational things.

How in hell have this 'minority' got the whole world scrabbling at their feet to agree to their 'rights' in such a short space of time.

Oh yeah, they're all men.

It mainly seems to be women supporting them, though, from what I've seen, and the supporters possibly outnumber the tiny number of actual transwomen.

Very few blokes seem interested in the whole woke thing aside from beardies at uni.