These two tweets are proper what-the-fuckery, looked at in combination
Person X: ‘provocatively transes (fictional) tomboy, who is beloved of (real) tomboys past and present’
Person Y: ‘Ha, funny joke - those stupid GCs must be paranoid to believe anyone is actually transing tomboys’
Meanwhile, adult women (many of whom are GNC themselves) are looking at all the recently published books, academic papers and plays twisting the narratives of our long deceased sheros of history so that Queer Theorists can claim them as ‘transmen’…
And we’re battling the erasure of important, descriptive words like ‘Lesbian’ from the biographies of trail blazing Butch ladies?
And we’re witnessing our own daughters going from carefree tomboys, to puberty-distressed teens, to adopting new, fashionable ‘nonbinary’ or ‘transmasc’ identities learned through secondary school LGBT clubs or social media, identities that lead them to hate their healthy, female bodies and withdraw into social circles entirely populated by other body-hating teens, all seeking to escape that hatred via a fantasy sold by big pharma, a fantasy that will make our daughters medical-patients-for-life…
Yet we’re ‘ridiculous’?
Ridiculous for what?
Noticing there is a problem?
Noticing there is a pattern?
Realising all these things are connected?
For caring about our daughters?
For caring about other people’s daughters?
For telling the Queer Theorists to leave the tomboys out of their weird postmodern gobbledygook?
And for telling them to leave the lesbians out of their weird postmodern gobbledygook?
For not seeing anything to make jokes about?
To use a well-worn Mumsnettism,
ODFOD.