Can we have a board for people to rant about trans stuff?

[HoneyIshrunktheBiscuit]

Because I'm sick of clicking on a thread in aibu or chat and seeing vile being sprouted when the title gave no inclination that it was another anti-trans thread. It's getting boring now.

There shouldn't be any board available to promote vile hate filled rants about anybody.
If you feel all trans threads are likely to be 'basher threads' just avoid them.

A Board for this wouldn't be good.

Just don't open any. Leave them to run about in circles of hate together

I avoid them when the titles are obvious but often they seem innocent enough until you click on them.

Trans hatred my arse.

There was one thread a couple of days ago that was below the belt. That should have been deleted.

The others are discussing our fears about what this means for women and currently they are discussing a child who just had a double mastectomy. If these things don't bother you good for you. Just press the back button.

Interesting though. Women aren't allowed an opinion on the new law they are trying to pass. It doesn't surprise me that some want us to have a little corner to post and hide away in either.

Oh please....

In that case we should have boards about dog poo, bastard neighbours and parking.

Just don't click or report if there's something you feel breaks the guidelines.

Do you follow the news at all, op?

Completely agree OP. Some of the stuff written is disgusting.

@HoneyIshrunktheBiscuit have you actually read any of the threads?

I've found them very informative and - for the most part - reasoned not hateful.

There is no anti trans. What there is is growing concern for women and girls, children generally and also lesbians. But none of them matter right? 'Cos you are 'bored'

Some of the stuff happening is disgusting.

Unless you agree with a 13 year old having a double mastectomy?

We have a reason to be angry about how this is all going and we have a right to be scared about what this will mean for women and young teens.

I have seen nothing disgusting written personally. Except that one shitty thread. If someone writes something disgusting report it. Giving us our own little board to protect you from reading something you don't like is pathetic.

You are an adult. Use the buttons on your device and report and move on if it bothers you.

Really? Because in my opinion what's vile is mutilating kids to normalise grown men's fetishes, but each to their own and all that.

Women are allowed opinions , especially on mumsnet. Important legislation is up for debate and should not be shunted into a special board it affects everyone

The only part I do agree with is coming down hard on thread titles that don't even hint at content. That does do my head in.

AIBU to be annoyed by this?
Should I do this?
Can anyone help?
I can't believe this just happened
Where can I buy this?

Etc etc. Chuck us a freaking bone.

The worst thread title is the AIBU titled "Am I being unreasonable..." should be grounds for insta-ban tbh

How on earth do you propose forcing people to stick to using that topic? Who decides if the topic of a thread is unacceptable and must be banished to your proposed topic? Would you ask MNHQ to make sure they don't appear in Active and Trending as well?

There are very few "anti trans" threads, just anti radical transactivist threads and threads opening MN ers eyes to the misogyny and child abuse and erosion of women's rights happening in the name of trans rights.

Saying threads drawing attention to the fact children are being sterilised and surgically altered, vulnerable women are being put into prisons with in tact males, laws are being passed to say female to male transgender people cannot benefit from inheritance laws favouring men whilst physically in tact male to female transgender people must be given access to women's refuges etc is anti trans is as inaccurate as saying being anti Islamic State is anti Islam.

Some people seem incapable or unwilling to understand that it is possible to be angry about political extremists who cause real harm, but tolerant of moderate individuals minding their own business.

Yes to banning misleadingly titled threads though, and ones only entitled "Am I being unreasonable?"

I've seen plenty of bigoted anti-trans ranting, but very little of it on MN.

The trouble is that discourse on trans issues is already toxic and polarised. Not least because, when legitimate concern is expressed about the way the most extreme wing of transactivism is having its agenda bulldozed into law, and the ensuing risks to women, children, lesbians, gay men, and many ordinary trans people, it's being howled down as bigotry. Or shut down and marginalised, as you would like it to be on MN.

It's perfectly possible to deplore Donald Trump's bigoted, bull-headed statements about trans people being banned from the military, whilst simultaneously being alarmed at children being physically and hormonally altered at ever-younger ages, and wanting to talk about how fairness can be achieved in competitive sport. Dismissing it all as 'ranting' will only serve to further polarise the discussion, which in turn will give more credence to the genuine bigots.

Ridiculous. We can't have a board for everything. I, for one, am sick of the parking threads. I don't read them. Even if I click to read and then find I don't like them, I click off. It's easy.

It's a thinly veiled attempt to close the gender debate down. Again.

Can you spout an adjective?

I bet you turn the news off when it gets a bit hard for your brain OP. Fingers in your ears shouting lalalala...

@HoneyIshrunktheBiscuit and @Xeneth88 what 'disgusting' and 'vile' comments are you referring to here?

I've said this several times before but I'll say it again; why are people always so keen to tell us how horrible and transphobic we are but are never able to show us where all this alleged transphobia occurred?

If people actually told us what the problem is then we'd be more likely to take what you're saying on boards and try to understand where you're coming from.

*on board

I think MNHQ should define what is and isn't transphobia.

And that posters who aren't interested (or are too #blessed #love #bliss to care about it) should hide the threads, like I do on anything I don't like.

I wouldn't hold your breath op, I'm still waiting for a response to my asking for a board for everyone who whinges about there being too many trans threads on mn.

Cause I'm bloody sick of reading them, yet can't resist clicking on them when I see them. And it seems like there's a new one every other day atm. Why shouldn't these posters have an area where they can whine to their hearts content, and I can just hide it so I don't have to see it?!