Have just outed myself on Facebook

[tinabloodysparkle]

Eek, just outed myself as GC on Facebook. Can I get some support please?

I nearly did last night but chickened out at the last min. I was going to change my profile pic to the Adult Human Female billboard.

What sort of support? If no one knows you on FB, we cannot help. To out yourself further on here would just add to your problems.

Sorry... that wasn't very supportive of me OP

Has anyone commented yet? I got deleted on a local city discussion group for querying the suicide rates of transpeople that someone quoted.

I would suggest just bomb your FB with links to Fair Play for Women, etc.

Well done for speaking out Tina.

You may be pleasantly surprised at who agrees with you.

I have been speaking to people in RL and have had some heartening successes and some unexpected dead ends and raised eyebrows.

I’m in the annoying position of being in tricky situation work wise but try to demonstrate critical thinking wherever possible. Looking forward to being retired so I can be completely open.

Just a hand hold on here will be nice. No-one has commented yet - I'm bricking it.

One of my friends has touted the Amnesty article 'Have your say on the GRA' and I've commented that there's far too much evidence that relaxation of rules can be exploited and linked a Karen White report.

Thenightsky I'm nowhere near brave enough to do that - I do it on Twitter all the time, I just don't feel safe doing it in real life/Facebook!

Well done OP, it is hard the first time but gets a lot easier!

More power to your elbow, OP. I know it's scary.

Holding your hand, tina. You are brave. Well done.

Can you somebody explain to me what this means please ?

That’s amazing, tina. I’ve been thinking about it for months, but I don’t have the nerve.

I feel so ashamed of myself. But very proud of you. 👏👏

I post on Facebook and noone normally responds. I take comfort in the fact that people are reading though, even if they're too scared to comment.

I wouldn't stress if no one comments by the way. They probably won't. Although actually someone did on mine for the first time ever the other day. Baby steps.

Username, it means I've publically outed myself as Gender Critical.

I am an adult human female (with no penis, women do not have those). It's a controversial statement, a lot of my friends do not agree.

I've done it and it has been a bit nerve wracking, but I just couldn't stay silent. It's too important to me. I've had some disagreements but also someone pm me and we're going for a coffee to talk about it. A worthwhile success!

And well done btw, and a hand hold from me!

I changed my Facebook cover photo and nobody noticed.

That's not to say it was easy, I did wrestle with it a bit. Then thought'fuck it' and did it anyway.

I think the article in this week's Spectator is a good one to link to, because it's well written, includes examples of what the consequences of the GRA are, and is calm and reasonable. Also, and it pains me to say this, because it's written by a bloke it's less likely to be dismissed as women being hysterical. Shit though that is.

So far, so quiet - no one has responded.

C'mon Figless you can do it! All power to those that already have - I was literally shaking when I clicked.

Not quite the feminist warrior I'd like to be!!

I changed my Facebook picture to the dictionary definition, no one commented and 2 of my family 'liked' it. I have a friend who is now Nicola instead of Nicholas, none of our mutual friends or his wife have unfriended me just yet, but I think it's down to the supposed algorithm.

It was scary nailing my colours to the mast, but I'm glad I did it. Well done to all of us who have taken the plunge.
Incidentally, my DDs both feel they can't as they think they'll lose their jobs . Free speech only as long as we all agree right?

Love to all of us especially the ones who can't publicly declare their views.

I've lost a dear friend because we cannot find common ground on this, but it feels OK - and I wonder if one day in the future we'll find our way back to our friendship. It's all been very polite and we tried our best to discuss it calmly.

Well Done, OP!

Belonger - in an interview, Linda Bellos mentioned that she was about to go to Dublin and while there meet up with a friend from 30 years ago - they'd fallen out over politics but after a huge gap, find their way back to each other tho' she didn't entirely known how it would go.

I've posted a couple of posts in the past fortnight. Lots of likes for the first one (FPFW video) with one dissenter who ended up going off on one.

Quite a lot of likes for the link to the Manchester meeting.

I posted about Jacinta Brooks and was asked by a friend not to use it to stoke prejudice against trans women.

Recent post sharing Times article about the WPUK meeting had no response. I'm hoping people are reading it though.