Women and girls' sex-based rights

[StephanieSuperpowers]

Well, here we are...

And that the people pontificating are, (to a good extent), the male bigots who turned on us as soon as JtS clicked his fingers. They are so craven and so dishonest.

Yeah but as dear old Morbo used to say, just remember when they wake up in the morning they'll still be them. And you'll still be you!

Yeah stop posting.

I notoce none of the "other side" ever started their own thread of discussion. No women (or men as far as I could see) on that thread were opposed to trans people having rights and dignity. They just noticed a policy that could have unintended consequences for THEIR rights and dignity and wanted to explore that.

Mr Neutral reinventing themselves as objective dispassionate commentator is doing my head in. Thankfully I'm unable to post for unknown reasons.

I'm trying so hard not to post but I can't stop myself from correcting or pointing out what are clear lies.

Nuke your password, pike, if you can. I couldn't change mine, possibly because I'd long ago succeeded in deleting my email address, but it was an unmemorable random string of numbers, so deleting my cookies and removing it from my saved passwords did the job.

Tell you what though, castration isn't all bad.

Sitting there minding my own business about an hour back I heard a noise outside the window where no noise should be. Opened the door to find 7 (or possibly 8, it was nearly dark, some of them were solid black) bullocks that had made their way in from the field next door. Luckily, since they had no testosterone, my cross query as to what they thought were doing was enough to send them stampeding back through the garden and over the fence. I then had to try to repair the gap with brushwood. I'll go and talk to the landowner in the morning - an electric fence must be down.

But imagine of they were bulls?

That sounds exciting! I hope they didn't spend too long in your garden, though.

The main garden I work in had a herd of cows pass through it a while back and apart from a couple of trampled plants, the main thing was cow shit and hoof prints in the lawn. A lucky escape.

The bit of the garden they were in has been neglected lately, and there's a limited amount of damage they could do at this time of year. If they'd got into the other bit and eaten my broccoli I'd have been much more upset.

Last summer we went for a long hike in the Yorkshire countryside. Through rolling hills dotted with sheep, green fields of cows, the usual sort of thing.

The OS map directed us through a farm gate and across a perfectly ordinary small field with a barn. We observed a flock of sheep as we entered the field, and they all turned and looked at us as we approached.

"Huh," said child, " those are weird sheep, they look like they're from Minecraft!"

And indeed, those sheep did look very rectangular and in fact very large and built like a fleet of brick outhouses, as they say.

At this point it dawned on me that they were boy sheep and that I didn't know anything about the aggression levels of rams and that they were a lot bigger and muscle-ier than ewes.

And so we turned around and left the field and found a different route.

Eating your broccoli would be tragic, elderberry.

If they were "intact" then they could get pretty aggressive. I have seen rams barge people over with their heads.

That said I doubt they were, a farmer would not keep a lot of uncut rams together. That is asking for trouble.

They were probably Wethers.

Or they could have been ewes but a very sturdy breed like a Texel.

I'm not sure what breed the local farmer has here, but they're enormous and almost all are females. Kind of blocky bodies too. 'Hungry hippos' they get described as and they're well named.

Sounds like a Texel.

A Texel. Yesterday

That is a boy one. Clearly.

Well, I find that a very bigoted assumption.

The blocky chaps we encountered in the field definitely had penises (or rather, those wispy fluff bits where they emerge, IYSWIM); I didn't fancy checking to see if their bollocks were still there. They certainly didn't appear aggressive. But I wasn't going to stick around to find out.

That's a weird looking sheep, Gin, it looks like a cow with a wool waistcoat.

it looks like a cow with a wool waistcoat

I rather like it!

I rather like it!

Me too. It has attitude!

It's the away kit.

I was chased by a ram once, very scary. I eventually slowed him down by throwing the bag I was holding in his face, which gave me a few seconds to get over the fence.

Then I had to wait till he lost interest because the bag contained some poisonous plants along with other stuff I'd collected and I didn't want to kill a neighbour's prize specimen. Which was possibly a mistake, because the following week Rambo butted his owner from behind, breaking his pelvis. It was a one-way trip to the mutton factory after that.

I think you'd have noticed the bollox's bolloxes, rams are not subtle about their attributes.

Arf! 😃

Arf x 2. And yes, it really does look like a cow in a waist coat. I’d be quite perplexed if I met him in a field.

Ha ha! Texels are bred for meat so are very squat and muscled.

The "wool waistcoat" effect is probably a result of its underside and nethers beind shorn clean to prevent fly.

I needed that reminder, Lawls. Thanks.

I needed that reminder, Lawls. Thanks.

You're very welcome @otraynor