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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Complaints against Baroness Nicholson being organised

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Imnobody4 · 16/08/2022 19:53

An official compliant has been lodged with the @Conservatives Party in regard to @Baroness_Nichol’s online behaviour.

It comes after dozens of complaints were lodged with social media companies regarding her views on #trans.

The Conservative Party has been contacted for comment

twitter.com/ChamberVoice/status/1559229955543912450?t=wOEs_8EZI3NztrVZDlCUUA&s=19

Chamber voice is an on line 'news' outlet.

Apparently Twitter banned the Baroness, but immediately corrected after appeal.
twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1559139062623133697?t=oHnlHAEtE0UgzTDNj4DsPQ&s=19

They really are idiots, what do they think they achieve.

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ZuttZeVootEeeVo · 17/08/2022 09:39

I totally agree, having two lesbian mothers is neither normal nor natural, we could have nipped this nonsense in the bud back then and we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now

Where did I say lesbian mothers aren't normal or natural?

Helleofabore · 17/08/2022 09:40

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 17/08/2022 02:36

Breast reductions and enlargements on the NHS are fairly rare, almost always done for spinal health and post-oncology reconstruction, respectively, and are never done because a woman who develops a B cup decides one day she was born into the wrong body and should have been an F.
Where are you getting this from though? I with my B cup could quite easily apply for surgery for enlargement tomorrow (,I don't want to, but I could))
should I be denied it then as according to this thread I need to learn to be happy with what I've got?

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Ok. ToGany

Let us know then if the NHS breast enlargement application is successful. We are all now very interested to see what your GP says.

Helleofabore · 17/08/2022 09:41

heinbach · 17/08/2022 09:37

Do you have a reference for that image so that we can see the dates and the publication please?

Clipping 1: The Observer (London, Greater London, England), 03 Jul 1994

Clipping 2: The Guardian (London, Greater London, England), 30 Jun 1994

Thank you.

Clymene · 17/08/2022 09:51
  1. So nearly 30 years ago, not 20.

In any event, we're talking about a concerted campaign to get the baroness banned from Twitter.

I know this is what's been happening because I've seen TRAs crowing about it. They got a black lesbian banned last week too.

This is nothing to do with homophobia, this is only about silencing women's voices. And no, this kind of surgery shouldn't be on the NHS. It has very poor outcomes in the majority of cases.

Helleofabore · 17/08/2022 09:52

heinbach · 17/08/2022 09:37

Do you have a reference for that image so that we can see the dates and the publication please?

Clipping 1: The Observer (London, Greater London, England), 03 Jul 1994

Clipping 2: The Guardian (London, Greater London, England), 30 Jun 1994

So, only paid subscriber access to those.

Do you have the entire article or just these very clipped sections?

YogiBee · 17/08/2022 09:59

Where did I say lesbian mothers aren't normal or natural?

@ZuttZeVootEeeVo

That's what Baroness Nicolson says in those clips, I don't know why the poster attributed it to you.

Datun · 17/08/2022 10:02

Clymene · 17/08/2022 09:51

  1. So nearly 30 years ago, not 20.

In any event, we're talking about a concerted campaign to get the baroness banned from Twitter.

I know this is what's been happening because I've seen TRAs crowing about it. They got a black lesbian banned last week too.

This is nothing to do with homophobia, this is only about silencing women's voices. And no, this kind of surgery shouldn't be on the NHS. It has very poor outcomes in the majority of cases.

Misunderstanding aberration and abhorrent, confusing degrading with the degregation of a concept, and now trying to use the term homophobia, when they have no idea what it means, as they can't define homosexual. And not realising that most people totally agree that the NHS should not be spending taxpayers money or boob jobs (they aren't).

And apparently quite fondly thinking that nobody realises it's all just to shut up a powerful, outspoken woman.

rabbitwoman · 17/08/2022 10:05

I was following exactly what happened on twitter. For me, there are two elements to this debate, firstly the ideology itself which largely does not stand up to scrutiny, and secondly what I like to call the rules of engagement, which seem very stacked in the TRAs favour and has the express function of subduing that scrutiny.

'you support a bigoted tory who voted against gay marriage and was banned from Twitter for hate speech' will become their new battle cry and it will be the answer to everything, from women's sports to rape crisis centres to puberty blockers.

Meanwhile, mention any of the activities of the first openly transgender MP, and suddenly you can't tar everyone with the same brush etc.

You would hope that the twitter spat is nothing, it means so little, but on twitter these tactics really work. Then blocking, reporting, and the mechanisms by which you can be suspended for 12 hours are again, really loaded against anyone arguing for women's rights.

What astounds me is that decision makers and policy makers seem to be looking to twitter for guidance and advice!! But there you go..... Twitter's stranglehold on the rules of engagement seem to be loosening for now and adult debate and disclosure can commence!!

One day, when this is all over, it will make a fascinating subject for a thesis or PHD....

ScrollingLeaves · 17/08/2022 10:07

Does anyone here know to whom to write in order to be most effective in voicing support for her?

DarkDayforMN · 17/08/2022 10:08

Where are you getting this from though? I with my B cup could quite easily apply for surgery for enlargement tomorrow (,I don't want to, but I could))
should I be denied it then

Cannot get over this, what planet are they posting from? Thinking that cosmetic breast enlargement is available on the NHS (for someone with a "B cup" at that) and also thinking that a board full of feminists would think it should be available on the NHS. I mean sometimes I think that there are dozens of highly skilled and intelligent women on here spending their time patiently and carefully rebutting nonsense churned out by a 15 year old boy.

Datun · 17/08/2022 10:11

I mean sometimes I think that there are dozens of highly skilled and intelligent women on here spending their time patiently and carefully rebutting nonsense churned out by a 15 year old boy.

Uncanny innit.

Needmoresleep · 17/08/2022 10:12

Surely it is worse to have someone who has not changed their minds on anything over thirty years. Society and societal attitudes have changed massively over that period.

An intelligent human being who is willing to listen and think and if appropriate revise their opinions, seems to me to be far better than someone whose opinions are stuck in the 1990s and who won't change.

Stonewall surely is on a mission to get the majority of us to accept men who identify as women as women. Their early polls suggested very few bought the concept of Self-ID. Presumably they hope their arguments will encourage individuals to think again and to change their minds...

Oh0oh. I forgot. #no debate, "education" and if necessary "cancellation".

Thank you Emma for standing up to this.

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 17/08/2022 10:13

churned out by a 15 year old boy.
🤣 First time I've ever been mistaken for a 15 year old boy lol

Datun · 17/08/2022 10:14

What astounds me is that decision makers and policy makers seem to be looking to twitter for guidance and advice!!

Yes, I agree. However, it does start to dawn on one what one is actually looking at after a while. And Emma Nicholson is a decision maker, and mixes in those circles. Her credibility will be right up there.

DarkDayforMN · 17/08/2022 10:15

As a nurse, if someone needs wound care post surgery I would do it, wherever their wound was.

I wonder if the Baroness was being euphemistic there. I have heard of nurses being expected to help with the dilation process, which is significantly different from wound care and I really, really don't think it should be expected of nurses.

But she may simply have been objecting to any NHS staff time being devoted to this surgery and its aftercare on the obvious grounds (costs huge, risk of harming the patient high, benefits unclear at best.)

Baaaaaa · 17/08/2022 10:19

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 16/08/2022 23:44

I'm no TRA, but Emma Nicholson is, and always has been utterly objectionable, so if people are finally calling her out for her longstanding homophobia, bigotry, and dark-ages views, then all power to them
Exactly, and same

Looks like 'taring' to me. This is definately not just disagreeing with her views.

Cuck00soup · 17/08/2022 10:40

NHS breast enlargement is either for women who have had mastectomy or who have a bilateral absence of breast tissue. Not a B cup.

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 17/08/2022 10:45

NHS breast enlargement is either for women who have had mastectomy or who have a bilateral absence of breast tissue. Not a B cup.
Ok, point taken, but still going by the logic on here, it's still purely cosmetic, you don't need it, you should learn to be happy with what you've got.

Datun · 17/08/2022 10:50

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 17/08/2022 10:45

NHS breast enlargement is either for women who have had mastectomy or who have a bilateral absence of breast tissue. Not a B cup.
Ok, point taken, but still going by the logic on here, it's still purely cosmetic, you don't need it, you should learn to be happy with what you've got.

Not sure where you get that the NHS being on its knees, and should only be used for medical issues, is the same as telling people they must be happy with what they've got. If they're not happy, they can do what all women do who want a breast enlargement, and pay for it.

SweetSenorita · 17/08/2022 10:52

ThinkingaboutLangClegosaurus · 16/08/2022 22:40

Lots of people are having to wait for surgery

And I would like everyone who is in pain, has a life-threatening disease or is becoming disabled to go to the top of the list.

Cosmetic surgery should be right at the bottom of the list. Potentially harmful and unnecessary surgery shouldn't even be on the list.

Exactly this.

rabbitwoman · 17/08/2022 10:53

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 17/08/2022 10:45

NHS breast enlargement is either for women who have had mastectomy or who have a bilateral absence of breast tissue. Not a B cup.
Ok, point taken, but still going by the logic on here, it's still purely cosmetic, you don't need it, you should learn to be happy with what you've got.

Having cosmetic surgery for whatever reason is one thing, but men having cosmetic surgery on their genitals and thinking that makes them women and gives them the rights of women is another entirely.

Helleofabore · 17/08/2022 10:54

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 17/08/2022 10:45

NHS breast enlargement is either for women who have had mastectomy or who have a bilateral absence of breast tissue. Not a B cup.
Ok, point taken, but still going by the logic on here, it's still purely cosmetic, you don't need it, you should learn to be happy with what you've got.

Only if you are someone determined to misinterpret what people say.

I don't believe that one person on this thread has said that someone who needs reconstruction should be 'happy with what they've got'.

But turning a penis or a piece of intestine into something that replicates the look of a vagina, can only be cosmetic.

Maybe you should actually explain how this is NOT cosmetic and is actually reconstructive you might get your message across.

Want to tell us how this surgery is not cosmetic?

Beowulfa · 17/08/2022 11:02

I disagree with what Baroness Nicholson said nearly 30 years ago about same sex marriage.

I agree with what she is saying today about women's and girls' rights.

These two separate thoughts have not caused my brain to implode.

Clymene · 17/08/2022 11:07

ToGanymedeAndTitan · 17/08/2022 10:45

NHS breast enlargement is either for women who have had mastectomy or who have a bilateral absence of breast tissue. Not a B cup.
Ok, point taken, but still going by the logic on here, it's still purely cosmetic, you don't need it, you should learn to be happy with what you've got.

Repairing an injury caused by radical surgery is not cosmetic. It's reconstructive surgery.

luvbuggy · 17/08/2022 11:11

Beowulfa · 17/08/2022 11:02

I disagree with what Baroness Nicholson said nearly 30 years ago about same sex marriage.

I agree with what she is saying today about women's and girls' rights.

These two separate thoughts have not caused my brain to implode.

Well said.

Has she ever put out a statement denouncing her bigoted views from back then? It would be excellent to have something to throw back in the TRAs faces to show that she has grown as an individual.