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TransAgenda BullShit: The I am Spartacus Thread

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OscarDeLaYenta · 25/08/2016 19:17

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HermioneWeasley · 26/08/2016 20:42

I know, MN and their sponsor ps will be quaking.

We all know that TW are mumsnet's core demographic

IfTheCapFitsWearIt · 26/08/2016 20:45

ArcheryAnnie
Excellent post.

RufusTheReindeer · 26/08/2016 20:55

I am Rufusthereindeer

I do not belive that someone can change sex
I am not Cis
A man cannot become a woman
You cannot have a female penis
I will not refer to a convicted raping bastard as "she" because "her" feelings might be hurt

I completely agree with the majority of posters on here and especially annies last post

I am Spartacus

Abraiid2 · 26/08/2016 21:03

'For the purposes of MN and on this subject, I will not use (inaccurate)personal pronouns, but will instead refer to the person in the first person.'

Eh? You will refer to someone else as 'I' or 'we'?

Do you perhaps mean you will refer to them by their name?

A3000W · 26/08/2016 21:14

I am 3000 and I am Spartacus.

I reject the Orwellian nightmare we find ourselves in.

Transwomen are men.

Transmen are women.

The doublethink required to think otherwise is insanity.

Our daughters deserve better than the erosion of their rights on our watch.

If MN are banning anyone for stating the obvious, then quite frankly I'd prefer the whole site to disappear. I'd much rather they stuck around and gave a voice to the women who may or may not one day be or already be mums. Instead of letting the male voices drown us out as always.

MrsUnderwood · 26/08/2016 21:14

I am Underwood, I have a son and a daughter.

I believe

gender is a social construct.

Sex is a biological fact

XX = female
XY= Male

A woman can never have a penis

Lesbians are women who are sexually attracted to biological women and not men who identify
as women.

A male cannot be a lesbian.

I believe that the majority of trans people just want a quiet life where they don't have to live in shame and fear.

I believe their movement has been hijacked by a bunch of vocal,
Misogynisic, narcissistic, transvestites and MRAs.

I am Spartacus.

DrNoHope · 26/08/2016 21:21

I'm DrNoHope

And there is no hope for women if they have to accept that women can have penises.

Teenaged girls who hate their bodies are not really boys, they're girls growing up in a pornified, hypersexualised culture where girls are valued and judged primarily for their sexual attractiveness. Giving them hormones and body modifying surgery rather than addressing the prevailing culture, is tantamount to evil.

Stating men can be women is tantamount to saying the earth is flat.

Showmethewaytogohome · 26/08/2016 21:44

I am Spartacus

I am Showme

No woman can have a penis. No man should ever be a prisoner in a woman's prison. No woman should ever be called 'cis'

I agree with MrsUnderwood. The vocal Alpha male trans who are using all the alpha male qualities they have have taken over the trans movement to ensure their alpha status is continued but within a 'female' role.

We are women. 'Cis' is a word contrived by men

shadowfax07 · 26/08/2016 21:50

I am Shadow.

So many people have described my feelings on this, far more eloquently than I could.

I am Spartacus.

JinkxMonsoon · 26/08/2016 21:57

But stupid to delete my post but the post directly underneath, which quotes the majority of it, stays, hmm? Hmm

JinkxMonsoon · 26/08/2016 21:57

*BIT stupid.

Ma1low51 · 26/08/2016 22:00

Ha! Love this.

Itsthiwooluff · 26/08/2016 22:02

I am Spartacus

I am a woman. Not a cis woman. I do not have a penis.

magicstar1 · 26/08/2016 22:06

OP I applaud you for posting...and I totally agree!

DworkinNineToFive your post is perfect.

MotheringShites · 26/08/2016 22:09

I am MotheringShites.

I cannot repeat what has been so well said before.

Woman not a feeling.

KanyesVest · 26/08/2016 22:11

I am kanyesvest* . I have been educated by MN. Thank you Sparticuses (Spartici?), I stand with you all.

*not affiliated to kanye

thebewilderness · 26/08/2016 22:34

I am Spartacus

SeekEveryEveryKnownHidingPlace · 26/08/2016 22:47

Well if twitter's getting cross, maybe it's a good thing after all that I never got credited or acknowledged for this idea when I posted it on the bullshit thread and then this happened shortly after!

usuallydormant · 26/08/2016 22:49

I am usuallydormant.

I am saddened that we haven't yet reached the point of breaking down gender barriers so boys and girls, men and women, can't get beyond gender constructs and be who they want without feeling they need to change their sex. Sex is biology, gender is a social construct.

Out of politeness I would address a transwoman or transman by their preferred pronoun to their face but this does not alter my belief that:

A woman with a penis is a man. A man with a vagina is a woman. No amount of external dressing takes away from this. I am a woman because of my sexual organs and my socialization as a woman. A male who has neither female sexual organs nor grown up as a girl cannot be a woman. I can well believe a man who prefers traditionally feminine pursuits might think they'd be better off female but I believe the issue is with societal expectations, not their sex. We should be fighting for a wider acceptance of what is means to be male rather than saying these men are women.

I don't feel like a woman. I am a woman.

this feels like a MN bubble - it is not an issue I have really engaged with outside MN, but it does feel like the thin edge of the wedge. Thanks again to the wonderful posters on MN for expressing thenselves so eloquently. Flowers

OscarDeLaYenta · 26/08/2016 23:23

Oh gawd! Sorry seek! I just thought it was a good idea to start a separate thread of statements on intent re pronoun use, etc.
Wasn't hijacking, and sorry if that's how it's come across.
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SeekEveryEveryKnownHidingPlace · 26/08/2016 23:27

No it's fine - I'm glad so many people agree on this really important issue. Thanks though x

pectrini · 26/08/2016 23:31

I am pectrini.

I recognise the struggle with identity that some people have. I deny nobody the right to live however they wish, in terms of clothes, relationships, fetishes, gender identity.

However, I do not accept that a person with a penis can tell me what a woman is better than I know myself, and take away my hard won rights from me. I will not be told I am a bigot for doing so.

It is insane we have reached this point. Wake up, world, before women are erased completely.

OscarDeLaYenta · 26/08/2016 23:32

It was all happening on the thread at that time, and you'd done the Spartacus thing and others had joined it, so starting this thread seemed obvious, but that because we were all on the other thread it was obvious I wasn't nicking the idea...

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Lemonsarenottheonly · 26/08/2016 23:33

And we get deleted for mentioning autogynephilia now?

againstvaw · 26/08/2016 23:34

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