Magdalen Berns is back!

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Hoorah!

Glad she is OK.

I can't handle the self-centeredness of trans trenders/queer kids.

Glad to hear that, OP.

Magdalen's eyeroll at 09:30 is wonderful

I love Magdalen. I was alternately laughing out loud and spitting feathers at that video!

So glad she's okay. I hope the guy who came to her aid is also making a good recovery.

Oh god, the bit where she admits that after all this rigmarole, she still hasn't actually worn the men's uniform

Christ

Really, really doesn't come across well, especially not compared to the woman on good morning Britain who actually stood up, sacrifices and tried to achieve something noble rather than indulge herself

I really liked Magdalen's piece there.

I love Magdalen Berns.

And the female socialisation behind all the care and anxiety regarding workplace attire, from that trans identifying female is blinding.

I liked Magdalen’s approach of comparing the vlogger with the PWC receptionist to make the point about fighting the system to the benefit of others. However, employees in the US have fewer employment law protections than here in the UK, especially gay and lesbian employees, and without employment no health insurance. For all its foibles, the NHS and our welfare state do give us more latitude in the “fuck you!” stakes.

Great video. Excellent

So what we learn from this: if we "disclose our trans identity to HR," we get what we want. Got it.

And OMG, she was 'exposed to some dated language'

It's so sad that she thinks this is the only way to assert herself

I went to the girl's channel and was greeted by a video called "How some asexuals have sex"
When will this identity trend be over....?

I love Magdalen - I really like her voice it's calming for some reason

Love Magdalen and glad she’s back! Couldn’t listen to that awful, whiney, self obsessed voice all the way through though. Talk about special snowflake....

🤣🤣 gosh even more annoying than Dennis Riley. Riley Dennis?

Magdalen Berns is brilliant.

Silly woman. I refused to wear a skirt in the Royal Navy in 1981.

I am guessing this is the video she was referring to when she said she had completed one before the assault.
I hope she is recovering well.

However, employees in the US have fewer employment law protections than here in the UK

This is true, and a good point. I do some freelance work for an american company, and they were agog at the idea of 1 month's notice for employees - let alone DP who had 6 months in one job and 1year in the next..

However, I think that if you're going to describe yourself as an activist, you probably need to be a little bit more than a bedroom keyboard warrior.

What a self-centred, self congratulating little shit bag.
Nice to see Magdalen back though.

The eye roll brilliant.

Also the PWC receptionist is doing well fir herself after her sacking
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Thorp

Magdalen's straight (!)-talking youtube films were what helped me really understand the issue last year (and develop a small crush on Magdalen!) .

She is awesome, and I am eternally both grateful for her speaking out at her own risk to bring some of us to the awareness that we didn't have before, and also ashamed that I do not publically speak out with her right now as shamefully I need to keep my job in an environment that, if I did speak out, may result in me targeted by trans-right activists. The place where I work does not need this type of focus from abusive men. And I also need to keep working as a single mum.

But I feel ashamed that this is stopping me from speaking out with Magdalen.

I do what I can in real life, and all of us can in different ways. Magdalen - if you're reading this, someone asked me who my heroes are recently. I don't have many, but you are one of them.

This is a massive issue of our day for women and girls, and all children whatever sex.

You are amazing.

Gosh Ash is annoying.

I browsed through some of their other videos. This one is one where they come out as non-binary to their mum. It's had 5 million, 400 thousand views. Rapid onset gender disorder is suddenly much easier to understand when you learn that. Ash also talks about having an eating disorder and getting top surgery. As annoying as Ash is, that breaks my heart. No one with an eating disorder should be able to find a surgeon who will remove their breasts.

I think this video is one that really needs to be shared widely since its more about sexism.
The UK case that Magdalen mentions had wide coverage. As well as the breakfast tv interview, it was discussed on Woman's Hour. The WH discussion led to India Willoughby's comment about women's hairy legs being 'dirty' and Jenni Murray's subsequent article which resulted in her public rebuke by the BBC.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/be-trans-be-proud-but-dont-call-yourself-a-real-woman-frtld7q5c

Are there ways to share it by way of follow up with those journalists who covered the UK case last year or elsewhere on Mumsnet?

yup, Ashs apologetic, overthinking female socialisation shines through

Pricelessly brilliant.

Torn between horror at Ash's ludicrous narcissistic nonsense, and pity for her. She's young enough to be my daughter. What on earth is wrong with these young women? A relative of mine had a mastectomy (stop calling it top surgery) because she had cancer; it is painful, unpleasant and messy- there were problems with lymphatic drainage and scarring. Why on earth would a young woman do that for no reason? It's absolutely heartbreaking.