The Psychotherapist’s story - the trans agenda around the workplace taking precedence over a lot of other stuff, and in particular, seemed to completely push out lesbian groups (Ireland)

[stumbledin]

Thanks to Glinner for publishing this:

... In what was to be the straw that broke the proverbial camels back I saw a friend of a friend on Twitter vehemently agreeing that definitely some young people had died by suicide as a direct result of, nay on the same evening as, the statement from JK Rowling. They knew this for a fact they said, and this person also has a very young ‘trans child’.

I have that in quotation marks not to be clever, but because I genuinely don’t believe there is any such thing. It was enough for me to think, ‘I don’t want to see this stuff anymore’, it was getting to me and I’d become despondent. But maybe social media isn’t entirely to blame. I also have what I suppose is or can be a stressful job, and at the moment I’m trying to balance doing good, with pretending I’m something I’m not. ...

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/please-stop-what-youre-doing-and

And also this:

Ireland's silent L

The definition of lesbian has become a subject of debate - with some claiming that lesbians are capable of attraction to males, whilst others acknowledge the nature of lesbianism - but claim it a problematic orientation that should be punished if not unlearned.

womensspaceireland.ie/articles/irelands-silent-l/

The definition of lesbian has become a subject of debate - with some claiming that lesbians are capable of attraction to males, whilst others acknowledge the nature of lesbianism - but claim it a problematic orientation that should be punished if not unlearned.

I have no words

Actually I do:

Disgusting
Homophobic
Bigoted
Creepy
Rapey

Thanks for posting.

There were threads that ran through almost each one that were the same. Firstly, that if they didn’t ‘feel masculine’ as a boy or ‘feel feminine’ as a girl, then they were most certainly ‘meant’ to be the opposite sex. Secondly, that there was a large group of people who at best wanted to deny them as their ‘internal/actual gender’ or at worst actually wanted them dead.

This is heartbreaking, if not surprising. The level of paranoia and feeling of victimization is insane, and not backed up by any evidence (or rather, only heavily-doctored 'evidence'). The people encouraging this narrative are the bad guys - not the (mainly) women saying 'um, hang on a second' about some of the ideology and its implications.

Yes, victimisation.

In any other context, the belief that there is a group of people who actively want to harm you, is managed quite differently.