"Of course I'm a woman! I was wearing a dress with make up, tights and a handbag!"

[afuckinggoat]

Reddit TIM is shocked that, despite featuring all the major components of a woman (a dress, tights, a handbag, and make up), they do not fool anyone.

I rarely wear any of the above, so it is a miracle that I am ever correctly identified as a human woman.

On a serious note, I am concerned that the TRA movement, despite being based on gender stereotypes and mental ill-health, will continue to have power because of the volume of and their capacity for emotional email-writing. Do we need to write to our MPs with regularity to ensure our voices add balance and sanity to the outcries of the emperors and their new clothes?

I think in a lot of cases, someone wearing 'a dress, tights, a handbag, and make up' more likely to be a man, unless it's a woman going to some special do!

This question is rhetorical - but I wonder how many of us are wearing a dress, tights and make-up at this very moment?
And if there's a big demo on, how many of us would turn up wearing a dress, tights, a handbag, and make up??

The Reddit post reads like a parody, I can almost see the writer tottering along unsteadily on his high heels, like one of those 1970s comedians in bad drag - I'm thinking of the 'Oooh you are awful but I like you' chap.
Either a parody, or zero self awareness.

It was a bit hot to be wearing tights over the weekend

With temps in the high 20s in London today the number of tights wearing women will have been minimal - maybe this somehow confused the police?

How does he know the cops were male?

Well he clearly didn't have a bow in his hair. Everyone knows females wear a bow to show they're female. Minnie Mouse and Ms PacMan for example.

And babies -
Those little pink crocheted headbands with bows they put on girl babies just to make absolutely 100% certain that the socialisation and stereotyping will start from Day 1, and that the baby won't be traumatised by being misgendered.😡

Oh dear. I'm probably not a woman because I'm wearing trousers, an old shirt of DS's and no make up. I have short hair too. 🤷‍♀️

The police officer was surely aware of the trans event going on and would have known he was talking to a transwoman.
The choice to address the person as ‘sir’ was likely a deliberately unkind one imo. He could have just said ‘it’s around the corner, that way’. It’s not nice to be bullied by a person in position of authority so I’m not surprised the person is upset.

Young lad in a knee length embroidered skirt of nil style, and tshirt, on the tube yesterday. Obviously male. I dunno, I felt kind of sorry for him. Did he really think he was fooling anyone? I mean, presumably not. So I . suppose a man in a dress or skirt is basically saying "call me madam or else". Kind of claiming diplomatic immunity from reality.

But who asked the reality based community eh?

A haaaandbaaaag??!

Haven’t worn a dress in years, yet here I am still womaning. Thats the fundamental problem for transwomen, people have realised they can stop lying and engaging with the nonsense. I think most normal people try to be polite but increasingly having to deal with the hysterical overreactions is probably starting to really piss people off.

I wanted to highlight this too!

It’s all “couldn’t help himself” in regards to the cop and then blatantly assumes he knows how the policeman identifies 🤣 🤦‍♂️

I mean, if you’re going to live the myth, (of gender bollocks), at least keep your tenuous grip on lived reality consistent

A dress is just a dress. Makeup is just makeup. Anyone can wear them. It’s just personal preference.

applying gender to clothing is painfully regressive.

Or alternatively, the police officer was sick of having to pander to transwomen, and knew that after the SC ruling, he could call an obvious man "sir".

Which is nice.

Of, where's that laughing emoji when you need it?
🤣🤣🤣

"Well he clearly didn't have a bow in his hair. Everyone knows females wear a bow to show they're female. Minnie Mouse and Ms PacMan for example." @WomenShouldStillWinWomensSportsIsBack

And Scrub Mummy. She is the multi-task version of the Scrub Daddy sponge, who not only must appear cheerful while washing up, but also be ✨adorned✨

I can't read the word handbag without hearing it in that voice 😂

Yes, absolutely—we do need to keep speaking up. Womanhood isn’t a costume made of stereotypes. It’s not something you can put on with eyeliner and a handbag, and it’s insulting to reduce it to that. Most of us live our lives without fitting neatly into those boxes anyway.
If we're silent, we leave the conversation to be defined by those who shout the loudest—often at the expense of women’s rights and language. Thoughtful, firm, and frequent communication with MPs does matter. They need to hear from women who aren’t trying to erase boundaries but protect them.

How is a policeman to know if it’s a man pretending to be a woman or a man just wearing clothes you’d normally associate with females? Didn’t David Beckham take to wearing a sarong or a skirt at one time? And no one thinks he was a woman?

Connie the caterpillar- I think she has a bow, wide eyes and eyelashes

Maybe he also missed out curls. Or wasn't wearing pink.

No one ever mistakes me for a man in wellies, jeans, shapeless dog-walking coat and with my hair concealed by a woolly hat.

Obviously I woman correctly and TIM was womaning wrong... by not being one.

We’ve only the TiM’s account of the verbal exchange with the Police Officer.
But it gets him ‘virtual hugs, outrage & of course the sympathy’ from his Reddit friends.

The alternative view on this ( Which I personally subscribe to) is that this incident never happened at all.

The way it's written, the apparent long pause before the copper added "sir" to his answer, is a deliberate attempt to garner sympathy for this heinous misgendering. He obviously did it on purpose to be cruel rather than just said it automatically without thinking.

THAT I might have believed. But this sob story - nah!

From another one of his threads, he's claiming that he went into the womens toilet twice, and a cleaner was in there both times, but didnt stop him.

Given they knew this demo was taking place, why didnt they have someone in there who would be prepared to tell him to leave?

Or is this how its supposed to be? Users have to be the ones to police toilets?