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Am I naive in thinking that in a couple of years, if not sooner, this will all be behind us? A few court cases, people clear about the law, women's rights protected again??

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loveyouradvice · 26/05/2025 23:04

And yes the noisy TRA far fewer in number and sidelined as the sad fringe that are left as others move on.....

Or do others think it will pan out differently??

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DialSquare · 28/05/2025 10:00

ButterflyHatched · 28/05/2025 09:53

I see we're busy lovebombing vulnerable trans people who are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of a head pat.

It is a disturbingly effective tactic, as is evidenced here - it buys a brief sliver of breathing room. Isn't it lovely to not face wall to wall hostility? Isn't it lovely to feel the microscope lift away from your every action?

It's ultimately self-defeating, however - as we see regularly with prominent trans people who alienate their own community and publicly humiliate themselves over and over again trying to contort themselves to fit within humiliating and dehumanising constraints.

There will always be a point where whatever you do or whatever you are is not enough. Where whatever you are ordered to sacrifice in order to remain 'one of the good ones' finally presents a line you will not cross.

You've sacrificed so much for a quiet life already. It would all be in vain if you refused now - you've already alienated your own community and driven friends and family away. Where would you even go? Who would you have left?

They'll keep going, though, and you'll have to make a choice between crushing all that you are down even further and living even more pathetically, or finally turning back and trying to reconstruct the ruins of your life.

That's the point. You are supposed to suffer. You are supposed to beg for scraps and plead and know precisely where you stand at all times, living in constant fear that they'll change the goalposts on you again.

And they will. Because nothing will ever be enough.

The sooner you realise this and stop chasing the impossibility of approval, the less damage you will do to yourself overall.

Sounds more like a trans ally description.

Helleofabore · 28/05/2025 10:02

akkakk · 28/05/2025 09:53

Mmmm my wife is a hand surgeon - she would advise that chainsaws and ladders are a fairly lethal combination! Your contributions on here are too full of common sense and clarity to have you suddenly vanish in a tangle of ladders and whirling chains… 😀

I KNOW! They are very lethal. I have some half done qualifications though, and some industry experience, does that put your mind at ease. And there is always someone holding the ladder.

Helleofabore · 28/05/2025 10:10

"I see we're busy lovebombing vulnerable trans people who are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of a head pat."

Are we all on a different thread? Or is any response to Seethlaw to be considered 'lovebombing'?

This is the incongruence that happens when someone takes the false and prejudiced view that posters on FWR hate people with transgender identities. It isn't true and was not generally true in the past. I think many posters on FWR have people with transgender identities in their everyday lives and don't hate them.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 28/05/2025 10:12

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 28/05/2025 06:10

Nah, you’re just having a pop because @Seethlaw like the women on here, won’t give you what you want ALL the time. You’re having a tantrum, and it’s all a bit boring tbh. And embarrassing.

This. It’s revealing.

ApocalipstickNow · 28/05/2025 10:13

Trans poster is hostile and offensive to every other poster- gets expected response - evil transphobia! Genocide! Hate!

Trans posters are normal and engage with discussion- gets considered/polite responses- love bombing!

BreatheAndFocus · 28/05/2025 10:13

I see we're busy lovebombing vulnerable trans people who are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of a head pat

Patronising other trans people as well as more melodrama 🙄 People here aren’t lovebombing Seethlaw. They’re appreciating the insight given, the thoughtful contributions, the understanding - and, no doubt, the lack of histrionics. Seethlaw seems an awful lot happier than you.

FrippEnos · 28/05/2025 10:17

ButterflyHatched · 27/05/2025 21:43

You've been in your career for decades. You've escaped the lean graduate years, clawed your way into earning some measure of respect in the workplace and though you still earn less than your male colleagues, you are at least accepted for who you are. You've built a social life both with out of work friends and colleagues, many of whom you have known for years by this point. They're a nice bunch - bit of a latent transphobia problem, but it never gets directed at you thankfully. The events of your childhood are a distant memory that rarely feels relevant. You made it. You're free. All that nightmarish awfulness is over, and you can put it all behind you.

You come into work one day and are told that from now on you must only use the male facilities.

You've never used them. Why would you? That would be ridiculous and nonsensical. Your colleagues would ask if you're having a laugh.

Wait, you...aren't? Seriously?

Wait, does that mean...you're one of them?

The temperature at work changes overnight. Your social life detonates. Everyone seems guarded around you. Tensions are suddenly running high. Nobody jokes anymore. Everyone is always whispering whenever you are just out of earshot. There is an unspoken 'but...' at the end of so many sentences. Everyone is waiting for you to say something. You have no choice - you have to eventually. It isn't how you'd have wanted to do this, but you might as well try and regain the initiative. You talk about your experiences; about what it's been like all these years.

You notice the little comments. The microagressions, now everpresently needling. You don't get invited to socials anymore - not in any glaring way, but over time it's starkly obvious.

You try and talk to people. It gets weird. You ask why you never get invited to socials anymore.

"Oh no, nobody has a problem. We just don't feel like it anymore."

"Oh I don't have a problem with any of that but it's just...you know. Different. Sorry."

One day, you're on a call-out. Some drunk dickhead tries to grope you. Your team would normally have your back, but nobody moves to stop him.

You try to bring it up later. Nobody wants to talk about it.

You start getting passed over for promotions. Eh it's fine, you have a job at least.

Of course you're the person picked for redundancy.

You apply for new position after new position.

You mysteriously never seem to get hired, despite being perfectly qualified and with plenty of experience. Weird - you were straight in the door for your last job a decade ago.

But that was before your life was detonated by an arbitrary court ruling funded by a multi-millionaire and an army of lawyers.

You missed these bits

You forced out several colleagues because they didn't use your pronouns, which cost the company money as the clients went with the people that you got fired.

People left because of your persistent complaints about colleagues and their micro-aggressions and how so many meetings were turned in to mini trans rallies. Costing the company the expertise and skills of those that you have forced away.

You cost the company clients because when you were invited into meetings with those that wanted the company to work for them you made a big deal about being mis-gendered and demanded an apology or you would go to their companies HR.

Your passed over for promotions because lets face it you spend more time in the office pushing your agenda than you do working, and when you do work other colleagues still have to pick up the slack, and more and more of them are refusing to do so.

You are eventually made redundant because when you are measured by the same requirements as your colleagues you have been found lacking, and you reference by the company reflects this.

As for the social bit, get a life outside of work.

ButterflyHatched · 28/05/2025 10:20

BreatheAndFocus · 28/05/2025 10:13

I see we're busy lovebombing vulnerable trans people who are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of a head pat

Patronising other trans people as well as more melodrama 🙄 People here aren’t lovebombing Seethlaw. They’re appreciating the insight given, the thoughtful contributions, the understanding - and, no doubt, the lack of histrionics. Seethlaw seems an awful lot happier than you.

Well I suppose if you haven't built an entire life and career free from transphobia and then had it detonated by the legal machinations of people who constantly abuse you when you ask them to treat you like a human being, then you would seem rather more jolly right now, wouldn't you?

Ereshkigalangcleg · 28/05/2025 10:23

FrippEnos · 28/05/2025 10:17

You missed these bits

You forced out several colleagues because they didn't use your pronouns, which cost the company money as the clients went with the people that you got fired.

People left because of your persistent complaints about colleagues and their micro-aggressions and how so many meetings were turned in to mini trans rallies. Costing the company the expertise and skills of those that you have forced away.

You cost the company clients because when you were invited into meetings with those that wanted the company to work for them you made a big deal about being mis-gendered and demanded an apology or you would go to their companies HR.

Your passed over for promotions because lets face it you spend more time in the office pushing your agenda than you do working, and when you do work other colleagues still have to pick up the slack, and more and more of them are refusing to do so.

You are eventually made redundant because when you are measured by the same requirements as your colleagues you have been found lacking, and you reference by the company reflects this.

As for the social bit, get a life outside of work.

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Helleofabore · 28/05/2025 10:23

"Because nothing will ever be enough."

There is that emotional manipulation again.

Society generally will not accept being told that it must fully support a philosophical belief that is not based on material reality. And trying to find a way to present a belief that is not supported by anything but that philosophical belief to make it acceptable to society is an act of manipulation.

Surely people using this tactic understand that because it is not based on material reality, the 'goal posts' certainly will feel like they keep changing. Because as people start to get a deeper perspective on this topic, because it is not based on evidence that is established science, their opinions on what is acceptable changes as they understand more about it. And that what they have been told to accept is not quite as they first understood it, or even thought about it.

People generally don't respond well to feeling they were manipulated. In the work place or in wider society.

I think this article from Robert Wintemute could be appropriate here

https://archive.ph/bDDET

Ereshkigalangcleg · 28/05/2025 10:24

“The legal machinations” like the ones that brought us the GRA?

Datun · 28/05/2025 10:27

Hey Butters!!
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BOO!

Datun · 28/05/2025 10:27

... just kidding

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 28/05/2025 10:29

ButterflyHatched · 28/05/2025 10:20

Well I suppose if you haven't built an entire life and career free from transphobia and then had it detonated by the legal machinations of people who constantly abuse you when you ask them to treat you like a human being, then you would seem rather more jolly right now, wouldn't you?

Blah blah blah detonated, blah blah blah transphobia, blah blah blah me, me, me, over and over again. Don’t you bore yourself?

WarriorN · 28/05/2025 10:31

loveyouradvice · 26/05/2025 23:04

And yes the noisy TRA far fewer in number and sidelined as the sad fringe that are left as others move on.....

Or do others think it will pan out differently??

coming back to the original post; I’ve just posted this thread which highlights the gaping holes in the nhs around car for gender questioning children.

schools are beginning to tighten (a little, we await more publications) with kcsie stipulating that professionals are consulted and schools do NOT transition children without this, however - huge loopholes and cracks are still there in the nhs.

this is going to take a couple of decades imho.

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 28/05/2025 10:32

ButterflyHatched · 28/05/2025 09:53

I see we're busy lovebombing vulnerable trans people who are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of a head pat.

It is a disturbingly effective tactic, as is evidenced here - it buys a brief sliver of breathing room. Isn't it lovely to not face wall to wall hostility? Isn't it lovely to feel the microscope lift away from your every action?

It's ultimately self-defeating, however - as we see regularly with prominent trans people who alienate their own community and publicly humiliate themselves over and over again trying to contort themselves to fit within humiliating and dehumanising constraints.

There will always be a point where whatever you do or whatever you are is not enough. Where whatever you are ordered to sacrifice in order to remain 'one of the good ones' finally presents a line you will not cross.

You've sacrificed so much for a quiet life already. It would all be in vain if you refused now - you've already alienated your own community and driven friends and family away. Where would you even go? Who would you have left?

They'll keep going, though, and you'll have to make a choice between crushing all that you are down even further and living even more pathetically, or finally turning back and trying to reconstruct the ruins of your life.

That's the point. You are supposed to suffer. You are supposed to beg for scraps and plead and know precisely where you stand at all times, living in constant fear that they'll change the goalposts on you again.

And they will. Because nothing will ever be enough.

The sooner you realise this and stop chasing the impossibility of approval, the less damage you will do to yourself overall.

Blah blah blah but what about ME, blah blah blah again, what about ME, blah blah blah I SAID, WHAT ABOUT ME??? 🤡😂

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 28/05/2025 10:36

Helleofabore · 28/05/2025 10:23

"Because nothing will ever be enough."

There is that emotional manipulation again.

Society generally will not accept being told that it must fully support a philosophical belief that is not based on material reality. And trying to find a way to present a belief that is not supported by anything but that philosophical belief to make it acceptable to society is an act of manipulation.

Surely people using this tactic understand that because it is not based on material reality, the 'goal posts' certainly will feel like they keep changing. Because as people start to get a deeper perspective on this topic, because it is not based on evidence that is established science, their opinions on what is acceptable changes as they understand more about it. And that what they have been told to accept is not quite as they first understood it, or even thought about it.

People generally don't respond well to feeling they were manipulated. In the work place or in wider society.

I think this article from Robert Wintemute could be appropriate here

https://archive.ph/bDDET

Will no one think of the men, who are willing to do ANYTHING to gain approval? Not THAT approval, THIS approval, not THAT trans person, THIS trans person. They are exhausting.

BreatheAndFocus · 28/05/2025 10:40

ButterflyHatched · 28/05/2025 10:20

Well I suppose if you haven't built an entire life and career free from transphobia and then had it detonated by the legal machinations of people who constantly abuse you when you ask them to treat you like a human being, then you would seem rather more jolly right now, wouldn't you?

Again, melodrama with no foundation in reality, BH. The SC ruling isn’t going to suddenly make your colleagues transphobic. They know you as you and will continue to treat you as they did prior to the ruling.

Getting a legal clarification of the meaning of sex in the Equality Act wouldn’t have been necessary if the TRAs hadn’t tried to subvert and lie about it. Sex means biological sex - as most people rightly assumed until Stonewall went round telling porkies. Clarifying this not only protects women’s rights, it protects gay and lesbian people too. What about trans people, I hear you wail? They are rightly protected too under the PC of Gender Reassignment, and the ruling even went to the trouble to emphasise this and give examples.

All that’s changed is that a Single Sex space for women must be just that - single sex. Your constant histrionics about this isn’t because you genuinely fear this change, it’s because you’re pissed off that women’s rights have been upheld.

Datun · 28/05/2025 10:45

With regards to the OP, I agree that many young teens now view the entire thing with derision. The proliferation of multiple genders probably had something to do with that. It's an attention seeker's dream. And clearly a fad. Not something that the next generation will want to repeat.

The cessation of damaging medication has also removed the goal for a lot of online grooming of confused children.

And removing the ideology from schools entirely will prevent adults from indoctrinating entire year groups.

And once trans children can no longer be leveraged, then you're left with men's pissing protests and moob jiggling.

Years ago, someone very wise predicted that when this ideology's wings are finally clipped, the fallout will be grim. Transactivists have no argument. They never have. Being thwarted does not result in reason, only fury.

And it doesn't stop the ironclad determination of many men. Who will be looking for any means to carry on.

Fortunately, everyone is entirely aware now and there are a great number of women who will never stop opposing their misogyny.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 28/05/2025 10:50

@Datun 🤣

Ereshkigalangcleg · 28/05/2025 10:51

Datun · 28/05/2025 10:45

With regards to the OP, I agree that many young teens now view the entire thing with derision. The proliferation of multiple genders probably had something to do with that. It's an attention seeker's dream. And clearly a fad. Not something that the next generation will want to repeat.

The cessation of damaging medication has also removed the goal for a lot of online grooming of confused children.

And removing the ideology from schools entirely will prevent adults from indoctrinating entire year groups.

And once trans children can no longer be leveraged, then you're left with men's pissing protests and moob jiggling.

Years ago, someone very wise predicted that when this ideology's wings are finally clipped, the fallout will be grim. Transactivists have no argument. They never have. Being thwarted does not result in reason, only fury.

And it doesn't stop the ironclad determination of many men. Who will be looking for any means to carry on.

Fortunately, everyone is entirely aware now and there are a great number of women who will never stop opposing their misogyny.

Also this.

EdithStourton · 28/05/2025 10:52

Helleofabore · 28/05/2025 10:10

"I see we're busy lovebombing vulnerable trans people who are willing to sacrifice their dignity for the sake of a head pat."

Are we all on a different thread? Or is any response to Seethlaw to be considered 'lovebombing'?

This is the incongruence that happens when someone takes the false and prejudiced view that posters on FWR hate people with transgender identities. It isn't true and was not generally true in the past. I think many posters on FWR have people with transgender identities in their everyday lives and don't hate them.

Well, indeed.

What gets me is that Butters is completely unable to see that he expects women to get on board with his 'lie' and pretend it's material reality, whereas Seethlaw accepts being strung between two poles and also accepts that other people share this perception.

One is saying 'you must accept my view of myself even if it breaks your brain and if you don't I'll scream and scream and scream and scream until I'm sick will write reams of self-obsessed melodramatic screed, liken you all to Nazis and be mean anyone trans who disrupts my narrative'.

The other is saying, 'I do not expect you to deny the evidence of your own eyes'.

Massive difference.

I have wasted too much time today and have loads to be getting on with. I don't even have time to check out middle aisles for chainsaws, cut-price KCs or n'duja.

potpourree · 28/05/2025 10:52

trans people who are willing to sacrifice their dignity

Now, now after all the bluster, it falls into place. Speaking honestly and asking for facts is "sacrificing dignity".

butters view of dignity can only be achieved through pretence, through denial of the true self. A facade, a presentation.

Because the reality is something you've been conditioned to believe is unpalatable. Or perhaps it really is that ugly homophobia and bigotry you deny, deny, deny while showing it clearly.

I'm actually sad for people who have grown up like this.

If you can't see that being a woman means at times being "undignified" then you really haven't got it.

Helleofabore · 28/05/2025 11:02

NoBinturongsHereMate · 28/05/2025 09:55

Do you know what brand of hedgetrimmer on a stick, @Helleofabore? That's something on my shopping list, and I'm trying to rule.out heavy ones for exactly that reason.

A Bosch AMW 10. Had it for a few years. Good luck.

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