Just come out as GC on Facebook.

[WomanTheCuntyType]

So, I’ve had an alternative Twitter handle for a while, which I’ve used to follow GC users, thanks to reading a lot on these boards over the last few months and learning a lot about GC issues.

Up till now though, I’ve been very silent on GC issues personally and at work.

This nonsense with Rohit Dasgupta has changed all that.

So, for the first time, I’ve posted a GC post on my Facebook referencing Rohit and his utter hypocrisy (under my normal name obviously).

Wonder what will happen next...

Good for you. Let us know how it goes.

Thank you @Lumene. I feel strangely nervous.

Well done 😬 I found out one of my friends was GC this week, spotted she was following lots of GC people on Twitter (she's not jk Rowling!), hopefully you'll find some people to talk about it openly with.

Good luck. The first few times I tried to talk to my sister about this she got really annoyed but now she more or less agrees with me. So if people give you crap about it, don't take it too badly.

I still get nervous anytime I post something even slightly GC.

I just found out a family member is a full on TRA. Beard, anime profile picture, "die in a grease fire" type TRA.

Funnily enough when I asked him if he thought I was a dirty TERF for agreeing with the views of the woman he declared a bigot and transphobe, I didn't get a response 🤔

I post the odd GC thing on FB, usually the articles from The Times. Mostly I get no likes or response, but I hope people are reading.

Mostly I get no likes or response, but I hope people are reading

Same. I share articles and fair play for women stuff.

I post and share quite a lot of GC stuff on Facebook. My fb friends are people I've known for 30/40 years ad there are only 3or4 I see regularly, we're in different countries.
I did get into a discussion with one about a video I'd shared, the friend told me that PP was a terrible disgusting bigoted person, so I asked the friend if she thought that human beings could change sex, she didn't answer and I didn't pursue the conversation.
I posted about Mermaids mutilating and giving drugs to children, I was told to educate myself about gender reassignment surgery. To have a more open mind. My reply was extremely blunt. I tend not to get into conversations on fb anymore.
I definitely know that several of my fb friends have reduced the amount of their posts that I see, so that reduces the amount of my posts that they see.
👀I'm just looking for any fucks I have left to give. Whoops, there are none left.

If people don't like it they can unfollow you, post what you like, there should be no social stigma around your views.

I get called a feminazi quite often by this local guy who is very vocal about being gay and is an opinionated person and larger than life type. He often shares pink news articles and I often rise to the challenge of being one of the only people around him who isn’t a “yes” type about everything he shares...it doesn’t end well and I have lost count of the times I’ve been called transphobic, or a terf.

Well done op.

I'm not very open in GC views on fb. What I can and do regularly do is post feminist things about resisting gender stereotypes (without reference to transfer issues), esp "let clothes be clothes" & "let toys be toys". The weird thing is that the friends who are enthusiastically pro-trans (a heterosexual couple, both of whom "came out" as queer recently) always love these articles and shares yet also enthusiastically cheerlead for the polar opposite ideology in terms of enforcing that liking "girl" things is what makes you a girl etc and share loads of trans propaganda themselves.

I haven't declared my GC views on Facebook yet, but I recently tried to gently broach the topic with a good friend of mine and to my absolute joy, she has the same views. I actually cried a little bit, because until now MN was the only place I could be fully honest about my views (apart from DH of course).

The weird thing

That's not weird, they are just not really thinking about what it is they are supporting, they will think it's all the same.

Parrots

I posted an article once, and discussed in comments quite tamely I thought that I felt teachers being trained to identify transgender children to get them early help was wrong. I did have a few people agree with me (fellow tomboys and crossdressers of their teenage years who ironicaly would likely be the trans kids of today) but I had one person call me a TERF and about 10 people delete me silently. I wish they'd just have discussed it first.

I had a discussion with our local green candidate recently. Someone had referenced “non-men” and she defended it. We had a civil discussion, but it is clear she’s drunk the Kool Aid. I mostly did it for the lurkers. I got a couple of supportive comments/likes from friends which pleased me.

One person did pop up and use T*rf (not directly at me), they were roundly ignored which also pleased me.

Well done womanthecuntytype.

In today's times article Joan Macalpine (one of my personal hero's) is quoted when urging other politicians to speak out " to feel the fear and do it anyway" - courage breeds courage.