Spain-woman sentenced to 6 months in prison after making 'transphobic' remarks towards male ex prostitute

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https://x.com/ReduxxMag/status/1760315313822769281?s=20

She was also fined Eu3850 and disqualified from holding employment in any profession in the fields of teaching or sports for 3 & 1/2 years

Horrible, horrible thing to say.

Still shouldn't be in prison for it (I don't know if ther was more, have read most but not all thread). Prison should simply be for people (usually men) who are violent and those people should be in there a lot longer.

And, fuck, I have been called much worse! For my (incorrectly) perceived sexiality, for my (incorrectly) perceived race, for being on a bicycle, for pushing a pram. Always by a man, mind you and probably all because I'm a woman. If they made misogyny a hate crime I'm not sure how they'd cope with the influx of reports. Although I guess you'd still have to get the police to care, so maybe not.

Dear @PP82

You appear very angry. Maybe get outside or step away from the screen because you are so busy accusing others of terrible things, you don't appear to realise how dehumanising you're being. Dehumanising and, frankly, a bit silly - Laurence Fox? If you say so.

However, you don't know my story, or anyone else's on this thread, so maybe stop acting like you're the only person to have faced bigotry and injustices. Sadly, you are not alone.

Let me be clear here: disagreement is not hate. And, if you continue to frame people so unfavourably, I really fear for your mental health. Go well, I won't be responding to you again unless you can drop the disrespectful discourse.

Yes, but he wasn't clearly and maliciously abusing anyone.

Also, I frequently joke about committing terrorist acts, as I come from a political tradition with a proud history of carrying them out. I don't make such jokes on social media, as I'm not a total idiot.

And ignoring that in this case it's probably a translation of the original term used

It is. The actual term was "maricón".

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/spanish-english/maricon

I've faced some bigotry and injustice, but not an overwhelming amount. I'm angry at the rise of the populist and far right, of which I consider the 'gender critical ' to be a part, and on behalf of people who have it much worse than me. It's not personal. I have a lovely life and am generally very happy. But I've always fought bigotry and prejudice and I'm not going to stop now. You are the ones who are always aggrieved and feel perpetually persecuted.

But the context should have been clear. The point I was making is that comments on platforms like Twitter can be taken out of context, even when we think it’s clear.

You mean the police aren't very bright? Shocker!

I'm angry at the rise of the populist and far right, of which I consider the 'gender critical ' to be a part

I don’t identify as far right…

False teaming.

Exactly. So what is to stop the police knocking on my door if I state the scientific fact that there are only two sexes? The precedent has been set.

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To place the locus of control outside of yourself is incredibly disempowering. Both texts you mention are incredibly helpful in understanding this.

I’m not far right. Dyed in the wool wishy washy liberal, me.

I just happen to know people can’t change sex, like most of the world including people who are also really nasty and bigoted and people who are paragons of virtue.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/contents/enacted

NLP may be discredited, but it’s excellent at helping people recognise where their strength is. Don’t let other people’s nasty words drive your life. Work around the obstacles rather than banging your head on them.

I'm angry at the rise of the populist and far right, of which I consider the 'gender critical ' to be a part,]

You are very misinformed.

Nope.

The Road Less Travelled? NLP? Are you effing serious?

QED.

People can't change their biological sex but if you were actually a liberal you'd realise that doesn't matter.

Well, I think it's time for a cuppa. Ciao, all.

I know nothing about the road less traveled. I do know a couple of NLP principles that are quite handy for resilience. You’re getting a bit reactive. Are you reading in things which aren’t actually there?

There’s a conversation about external locus of control that my NLP reference was in response to. There’s a couple of similar principles in NLP- nothing magical about just a bit of old fashioned wisdom.

No, being deluded about the importance of biological sex in many circumstances isn't the definition of "a liberal".

Yep. I expect that Nigel Farage, Billy Bragg and myself all agree on what is an apple and what is an orange. It doesn’t mean we all agree politically.

It does not matter if they dress up how they like; it does matter but it is their business if they harm their body in trying to look like the other biological type they cannot be.

What does matter is for a society to lie and say they are women and may be treated as though they are, alongside women, in all situations.

That is repressive and regressive not liberal.

I agree it’s doesn’t matter. We’re stuck with our biology but can wear what we like. We can go into whatever career we like. Being female no longer stops us being a doctor. Being make no longer stops us looking after our kids.

Gender is bollocks that tries to force us to behave differently according to our sex.