Memories of the last few years of madness

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There have been so many issues over the last few years with trans rights clashing with women’s rights… its been fascinating, in a bad way.

some that come to mind:

A man photographed breastfeeding a newborn in a bus - and being used by the BBC to represent mothers for a story

A man running a rape crisis centre while saying he’s a women and telling women users of the service to ‘reframe their trauma’

a man saying he’s a women and being appointed to head a charity for endometriosis.

Male police officers who say they are women being allowed to strip search women.

What else…

A particular low point - and one that got my attention because it was so gob-smackingly stupid.

And once you see it, there is no going back .

Clare Dimyon. I came to this thread to post about her.

She has an MBE for LGB rights campaigning, is a rape survivor who asked for a female breast screening professional.

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust published its new trans policy – and included the letter as an example of “highly discriminatory” correspondence from patients which should be referred to the hospital’s equality diversity and inclusion team.

https://archive.ph/ygX73

Oh yes I remember this. Could only have happened in Brighton aka TransIdeology Central.

Cockroaches?

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g oh yes, I'd forgotten Helen Islan of Mermaids attempting to sue a transwoman for being transphobic. Totally batshit organisation.

And when Mermaids was found to have stored a bunch of highly sensitive emails of their gender-questioning child clients - names, diagnoses, treatments - in a publicly accessible place online. The Times came across them when googling the charity number.

Susie Green, IT consultant.

Susie Green’s TED talk where she basically admitted to conspiring with surgeons to castrate her son because he played with the wrong toys. And then dedicated her professional life to trying to persuade other parents to also mutilate their children to validate her choices. Man alive once I saw it in those terms it shocked me to my core. Not amusingly bat shit like some items on here, more the stuff of nightmares

The morning our manager introduced a former male staff member who had returned to the day service for people with learning disabilities I worked for, now presenting as a woman.
"Good morning everyone, this is Vanessa"
The silence was broken by one of the people who attended the centre "it's a man!" he shouted. Said it all really.

Human beings aren't clownfish

I’m late to the FWR club. Although it was Sandie Peggie who kicked me out of my slumber these Emmys photos did get me thinking - was I the only person who saw two males celebrating that they’d stolen women’s awards?

Its the pictures that have the biggest impact especially when language is controlled.

“Laverne Cox Gets Emotional With ‘Baby Reindeer’s Nava Mau On Emmys Red Carpet: “That’s Who We Are As Trans People, We Are Humans First & Foremost””

The utter hounding of Rachel Rooney, Magi Gibson and Jenny Lindsay (among many others) by people in the publishing world with a particular mention of the rabidly vitriolic Society of Authors and Clara Vulliamy -

https://unherd.com/2021/12/inside-the-trans-publishing-purge/

Oh yes the absolutely appalling behaviour of Joanne harris as chair of the society of authors

I don't think she could claim to be a consultant. She was looking after the IT in a branch of Citizens' Advice. I have always assumed her IT expertise was at the level of knowing how to unjam the printer and do the daily back ups.

My mistake! IT Manager. Just goes to show that even if you have a small amount of experience with something, it in no way qualifies you to be in a position of serious responsibility...

I occasionally remember the Family Sex Show and its huge red flags, and insistence that only bigots would find anything to criticise. It's been strangely quiet since - I know there were people who raised concerns.

Perhaps she identified as one and that was good enough?

Omg, I was thinking about that the other day. Could it be more idiotic?

If you can find it pls post it here so we can a mass report him to the authorities in his country - at least here in the UK that’s technically a hate crime.

what an animal bringing someone with a disability into it.

All of the authors who claim not to know what a woman is despite writing books that make it crystal clear that they do, and who derided JKR for speaking the truth.

Notably -

Stephen King
Margaret Atwood
Philip Pulman

Alex Drummond's work on widening the bandwith of what it is to be a woman.

All the authors who write books for children with titles like:

My Dad is my Mum
Mummy, what’s my gender?
The Usborne lift-the-flap guide to Pride!
Topsy and Tim visit the library for the Drag Queen show

Or anime-style didactics aimed at YA about

Chloe looked in horror in the mirror at her growing breasts. She googled puberty blockers and howled in rage at her Mum saying no! If only she’d been allowed to become the boy she knew she really was [subtext: parents who parent are the enemy]

So many of them everywhere once you start looking 🤮

Academics would deserve their own WTF thread … apart from the aforementioned Alice Roberts, some prominent TRAs on social media include Sally Hines, Allison Phipps, Charlotte Lydia Riley, Priyamvada Gopal (fond of putting college porters in their place) and many others who policed Twitter to make sure that their fellow academics stayed in line.

I remember that time when Holly Lawford-Smith published her book on gender-critical feminism with Oxford University Press and some credentialed numpties popped up to say they would no longer publish with or review for OUP: archive.is/2023.05.12-205742/www.thetimes.co.uk/article/826fcd46-f0ce-11ed-bdc8-c06a4e8c18d7?shareToken=c77226a5bc7471965f49ba62fdaa54e6

They’re now all licking their wounds on Blue Sky …

This may have been mentioned, but the IOC Thomas Bach saying this in regards to the boxers Khelif and Lin

''What we see now is that some want to own the definition of who is a woman. There I can only invite them to come up with a scientific-based, new definition of who is a woman and how can somebody being born, raised, competed and having a passport as a woman cannot be considered a woman.''

If only we could have some scientific-based definition of what makes a woman. Chromosomes don't cut it anymore. 🙄

The madness doesn't end, on the BBC and ITV today the obituaries for the Pope mention his stance on trans rights.

Is there any news article that somehow doesn't have to revolve around trans?

I can't bear to look but given their past track record, one can only assume that the BBC have published an interview with a drag queen regarding the Pope's death.

Rosie Duffield and her issues with labour.