Reflections after 10 years

[Lemonjello]

The Supreme Court ruling has made me feel really reflective. I haven’t logged in with this user name in years but did so tonight and looked back at all my old PMs, and the threads that I was watching from way back.

Who remembers the I am Spartacus thread? That was in 2016!

And do you remember we all decamped to another message board for a while? I can’t remember what it was called but it was a private one with no TRAs.

Things have changed so much since then, it feels like more time has passed than really has.

Anyone else feeling reflective like me?

Yes. I was new to MN (under my first of many accounts- can’t stop misgendering the fellows and having run-ins with the monitors) and I read that thread trying to get a sense of what was happening. Fortunately I had read two separate articles in other media a month or so before which were both about teenage girls identifying as boys-each set of parents explained why they absolutely knew their daughter was a son and the way they describe their daughters was exactly exactly how I was as a teenage girl. I grew out of it and I am now a perfectly happy mum of 3 so I knew those parents were spouting nonsense. I think those two articles and the Spartacus thread help me see what was happening fairly early.

Glad you remember it @CrocsNotDocs!
It was such a crazy time back then wasn’t it. I’m so grateful to FWS for restoring the stability that felt like it was ripped away then. Everything was upside down. But not any more. Although obviously there’s still a lot of work to do, but at least there is solid ground to work on.