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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Emma Barnett interviews Endometriosis South Coast Steph Richards and Trustee Jodie Hughes

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ChristinaXYZ · 15/11/2023 13:42

You can listen here - it starts around the 22 minute mark.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001scsj

Woman's Hour - Justice, endometriosis, and Minnie the Minx - BBC Sounds

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001scsj

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Datun · 17/11/2023 17:40

Mmmnotsure · 17/11/2023 17:25

A glance over Steph‘s recent Twitter activity – it is very clear that Stephself‘s profile is very important to Steph and that it is being raised. Retweeting and linking to MPs and journalists, pictures and videos centring Steph.
If it looks like a grift and sounds like a grift…?

I'm all for Steph's image, words, deeds and thoughts being publicised. 😎

Melroses · 17/11/2023 17:48

AIstolemylunch · 17/11/2023 15:44

is Steph one of the transwidows ex husbands or have I got that wrong?

No - Steph's first wife left him and remarried. She sadly died around 2012.
AFAIK Steph's second wife is still with him.

Needmoresleep · 17/11/2023 20:32

Steph’s blog on their website is odd. His wife left him for another trans woman. Steph raised their three kids including a seven year old girl. Steph then nursed his exwife through a form of female cancer. Steph’s current wife then suffered firm another form of female cancer. Steph nursed them.

There is a hint of a form of saviour complex. What would the women in Steph’s life done without Steph.

RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 17/11/2023 20:50

CorruptedCauldron · 17/11/2023 11:15

Generally from the GC side we’re accused of hate if we say “men aren’t women” (even though that’s a fact, just like “the Earth isn’t flat”). Also, if we object to the word “woman” being erased and we want to keep our single-sex provisions and sports etc, that is viewed by the TRA lobby as “hateful”.

Now on to the “hate” from the other side. You could wallpaper a whole street full of houses with it, it’s everywhere, and notice the very clear difference in tone to the terven. How many so-called terfs say things like “die in a grease fire”; “choke on my girldick”; “I punch TRAs”; “decapitate TRAs”?

Answer: I’ve yet to come across any terfs wishing violence on anyone. Are they out there? I have no idea. But whoever told Jodie she should be burned alive is, quite frankly, a disgusting person.

I’d love to know how many women with endometriosis fall into the hateful terf category I outlined in my first paragraph. Steph wants to see terfs in hell. Maybe the majority of women that Steph is meant to be advocating for are actually bigots on the wrong side of history? How can Steph help them if Steph wants to see them in hell?

If I hated a huge proportion of men and wished they’d all go to hell, I couldn’t front a men’s health charity.

If there are any Terfs in hell, maybe Steph will see them there - but Steph hasn’t got there yet …

TheBitterBoy · 25/11/2023 15:30

Did anyone hear Radio 4 Feedback yesterday afternoon about this interview? A few good points made by listeners, but also quite a bit of 'be kind' comments.

BoreOfWhabylon · 25/11/2023 17:04

Starts 10 mins in - described as the "hottest topic in the Feedback inbox this week"

Bouffe · 26/11/2023 15:37

Even the first bit about Fairy Meadow is a puff piece with a be-kind, super emotive overview. So fluffy. And then the bit about Steph's interview, giving the distinct impression to anyone coming to it cold that Steph's a man. What happened to the Radio 4 of old? I listen to a few carefully selected podcasts that stick to facts and don't do performative hand-wringing. TV licence is due after Christmas. I may stop paying it in protest.

TWETMIRF · 26/11/2023 21:17

Melroses · 17/11/2023 17:48

No - Steph's first wife left him and remarried. She sadly died around 2012.
AFAIK Steph's second wife is still with him.

I thought he was Tinsel's ex husband

Needmoresleep · 26/11/2023 21:56

My impression was that the "be kind" excepts sounded much clearer as if recorded in a studio, longer too. Whereas the "well done WH" ones were taken from voice messages.

Needmoresleep · 26/11/2023 22:00

TWETMIRF · 26/11/2023 21:17

I thought he was Tinsel's ex husband

Why? Both he and his first wife were hairdressers. I don't think Tinsel was. I seem to remember from an early (first?) transwidow thread that most of the transitioning husbands were in IT, including quite possibly, Tinsel's. Indeed that there were an astonishing amount of common experience in terms of behaviours, attitudes to money and more.

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