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Xenophobia, homophonic, transphobia

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spstchmu · 29/06/2026 01:52

Are you gonna do anything about it? Like, i know the line is that shoving the madness in the feminism board means it's not transphobia. And I know it's been done to death but I'm sick of it. It's not acceptable. Xenophobia, racism and homophobia also increasing.
And no. I won't leave. This is the biggest forum of its kind and it needs to represent and respect us all. And care that it's not.

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AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 21:25

Main character energy flouncers who then don’t flounce and continue to drone on. That’s quite miserable, granted.

Differentforgirls · 29/06/2026 21:34

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 21:21

Perfectly fine over here. Don’t feel the need to insult rape survivors, and pretty much the majority of posters on the thread, so that’s a win I guess.

Still a ‘YouTube’ error message. Maybe it’s trying to tell you something.

Must be your connection but!

This is more you x

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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SvdecwnYJ4

pillorinjection · 29/06/2026 21:36

cannibalfish · 29/06/2026 20:45

Genuinely curious, for the people that disagree with trans rights (I’m not sure if you are comfortable with being labelled TERFs), why do you tend to ignore the existence of/patronise trans men but vilify trans women?

It’s something I’ve noticed in most Mumsnet discourse surrounding opinions on trans people and always wondered.

You’ve kind of proved the point, that people aren’t actually against trans rights. If they were they would be equally bothered by transmen. The reason why they’re concerned about trans women, is that men pose a threat to women safety.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 21:38

Differentforgirls · 29/06/2026 21:34

Must be your connection but!

This is more you x

Still an error.

My connection knows the score. Knows wrong un’s when it sees them and their vids, whatever they contain 🤣.

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 21:40

My internet connection is more up on safeguarding than a couple of posters on this thread.

Differentforgirls · 29/06/2026 21:43

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 21:38

Still an error.

My connection knows the score. Knows wrong un’s when it sees them and their vids, whatever they contain 🤣.

Caught in a bad romance. You're connection is loyal and doesn't want to humiliate you 😅

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 21:45

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Shedmistress · 29/06/2026 21:47

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 21:40

My internet connection is more up on safeguarding than a couple of posters on this thread.

Indeed.

Differentforgirls · 29/06/2026 22:09

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Oh you reported me for checking grammar!

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 22:16

Differentforgirls · 29/06/2026 22:09

Oh you reported me for checking grammar!

If you’re going to pull up others for incorrect grammar prepare to have it back. You were a teacher you say? Is that why the Scottish education system is absolutely fucked.

I didn’t report it. Why would I report my own post?
I wonder who did 🙄.

Eyesopenwideawake · 29/06/2026 22:18

So much interest in strangers genitalia. It's all a bit odd.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 29/06/2026 22:20

No one is remotely interested in their genitalia, we just want it kept out of female only spaces.

Shedmistress · 29/06/2026 22:24

Eyesopenwideawake · 29/06/2026 22:18

So much interest in strangers genitalia. It's all a bit odd.

Zero interest in random men's genitalia, hence not wanting it in female spaces.

Eyesopenwideawake · 29/06/2026 22:37

Shedmistress · 29/06/2026 22:24

Zero interest in random men's genitalia, hence not wanting it in female spaces.

But unless you ask them to expose themselves, how do you know? I was regularly mistaken for a boy as a child. Should I have been forced to prove I wasn’t?

AccidentallyWesAnderson · 29/06/2026 22:40

Eyesopenwideawake · 29/06/2026 22:37

But unless you ask them to expose themselves, how do you know? I was regularly mistaken for a boy as a child. Should I have been forced to prove I wasn’t?

Humans have been able to correctly sex other humans since the beginning of time without looking at their genitals. Even masculine/feminine presenting, it becomes pretty clear up close and personal and once they’ve opened their mouth to speak.

Does anyone have an original argument for men being allowed into women’s spaces, or examples of actual transphobia, we’re nearly 700 posts in. Anyone?

bignosebignose · 29/06/2026 22:43

As someone that interacts with trans people, men and women, pretty much every day I can’t say I know any that are as Mumsnet describes.

This is a masterclass in failing to understand safeguarding. Most people would presumably say that the males they interact with regularly are not predators. But some males are, and some predatory males fool everyone around them - some can even be charming when they want to be. And even if none of the ones you know personally are predators, some others are. So all males need to stay out of single sex spaces, because the bad ones don't wear badges or a special hat to warn that only they need to be avoided.

GriseldaandMike · 29/06/2026 22:51

Eyesopenwideawake · 29/06/2026 22:37

But unless you ask them to expose themselves, how do you know? I was regularly mistaken for a boy as a child. Should I have been forced to prove I wasn’t?

Do you really think the only difference between men and women is genitals?
Have you never noticed that men and women walk differently, sound different, have different proportions in terms of limb length, hip width, jaw and brow shapes and loads of other small differences that might not be conclusive in isolation e.g. the presence/ absence of an adams apple but when taken as a whole can be used to accurately determine someone's sex.
Funny how with all the night time visitors to the large student house I shared for years there was not one single incident of people getting to the seeing genitals point and discovering that the bloke they thought they had pulled was actually a woman or vice versa.

ThonsDesperate · 29/06/2026 23:49

Eyesopenwideawake · 29/06/2026 22:37

But unless you ask them to expose themselves, how do you know? I was regularly mistaken for a boy as a child. Should I have been forced to prove I wasn’t?

I was mistaken for a boy when I was a child too. I was starting to think I was called ‘Son’. But then, you know, puberty. My eldest son used to get mistaken for a girl and, in these days of gender identity mania, was asked a lot of personal and intrusive questions about his sexuality and his body. He was asked whether he was a trans girl. And a few times whether he was a trans boy! He is 18 now and definitely doesn’t get mistaken for female, even though he has long hair, is very slender and has what might be called fine features. His gait is that of a man. His hands are the same shape as mine, but are unmistakably a man’s hands, bigger and with more prominent knuckles. If he put on a dress, he would look like a bloke in a dress. Which is exactly what he would be. I think the vast majority of women can tell at a glance without any need for people to drop their drawers.

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 29/06/2026 23:56

Guessing this is Trans Reddit's best attempt to run interference to stop FWR from talking about the train wreck that is Tempest v DEFRA?

Give it up. The Supreme Court has confirmed that sex is relevant and matters in law and policy. Your "shut it down" campaign has failed.

All your claims that someone's genitals don't matter in most circumstances and are none of my business don't survive contact with reality.

When someone is bigger than me, stronger than me, and has the kind of genitals that he can weaponise to put a baby in me against my will, you bet your ass the type of genitals he has is very much my business as it is part of my assessment of the risk he poses to me.

This understanding of the risk men pose to women is part of why the EA explicitly allows single-sex services.

False comparisons with homophobia, racism, et al are also bullshit.

  • A man having consensual sex with other men in private infringes on no one's rights.
  • Black people being treated like white people infringes on no one's rights.
  • A man walking into the spaces set aside for women's exclusive use is at a minimum violating the rights of the women who rely on that space being female-only for their privacy, dignity, and sense of safety. If he is Karen White or John Worbuoys or any of the countless other rapists out there, he poses a real and present rape threat to those women. Him identifying as feminine doesn't alter that.

It's perfectly logical and consistent to support the former two and oppose the latter.

Give it up. We've seen it all before and can debunk every word of your nonsense.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 30/06/2026 00:03

Perfectly put @selffellatingouroborosofhate

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 30/06/2026 00:11

Eyesopenwideawake · 29/06/2026 22:37

But unless you ask them to expose themselves, how do you know? I was regularly mistaken for a boy as a child. Should I have been forced to prove I wasn’t?

Those of us who have eyes can tell from faces alone, very reliably. The research papers back this up.

This burqa-clad murderer was arrested because a copper noticed that he walked like a man.

There's dozens of subtle cues as to someone's sex that, when taken in aggregate, let humans very accurately sex each other. Courtship relies on this, and women's safety assessments of the people around them rely on this.

Wadsworthy · 30/06/2026 00:19

Namechangee11 · 29/06/2026 01:58

I couldn't agree more. The anti trans thing is wild here and like you say, posted in the feminist board too, which makes it 'ok' 🙄.

When your understanding of women's rights means that you think that they are transphobic, you're the problem. Not women's rights.

BabblingBiddy · 30/06/2026 01:06

ThonsDesperate · 29/06/2026 23:49

I was mistaken for a boy when I was a child too. I was starting to think I was called ‘Son’. But then, you know, puberty. My eldest son used to get mistaken for a girl and, in these days of gender identity mania, was asked a lot of personal and intrusive questions about his sexuality and his body. He was asked whether he was a trans girl. And a few times whether he was a trans boy! He is 18 now and definitely doesn’t get mistaken for female, even though he has long hair, is very slender and has what might be called fine features. His gait is that of a man. His hands are the same shape as mine, but are unmistakably a man’s hands, bigger and with more prominent knuckles. If he put on a dress, he would look like a bloke in a dress. Which is exactly what he would be. I think the vast majority of women can tell at a glance without any need for people to drop their drawers.

I think we share a son! Mine is mistaken for a woman from behind. A soon as he turns around you can tell he's a man.

bittertwisted · 30/06/2026 01:12

BitOutOfPractice · 29/06/2026 06:51

I 100% agree. It includes this thread I see. I have been piled on for objecting to the obsessives taking over threads on all sorts of topics. I mean god forbid you mention M&S in any context. They arrive in droves to tel you off. I have had to hide the feminism board (which makes me sad) because of the rampant and unchecked transphobia.

Yep, proved your own point, this one now taken over by the agenda. And it is transphobia, the obsession with generalising fetish and predatory behaviour

Ereshkigalangcleg · 30/06/2026 01:31

Wadsworthy · 30/06/2026 00:19

When your understanding of women's rights means that you think that they are transphobic, you're the problem. Not women's rights.

It’s a shame that most of these posters don’t have the self awareness to grasp that.

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