Check out your identity at the supermarket

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15394215/Sainsburys-Grinch-card-trans-people.html

For those who prefer not to click on a DM link this article apparently refers to the withdrawal of a Christmas Card from Sainsbury. Apparently the phrase. “I identify as” is no longer available to be used unless you are a trans identifying person because using the phrase “ I identify as” in any other context other than declaring a trans identity invalidates the lived experience of trans people.

I used to identify as a woman with a sense of the ridiculous, but phew, now I know better.

Does that mean if someone has one that it is now a collector’s item?

Sorry, what was that, multi tasking here, just logging on to my ebay account…….

People really need to relearn the sentence 'I don't care' and just get on with their day.

Good luck!!! 😁

Imagine if the listing was removed because it was reported

That would make it even more of a collector's item Isekaied.

Nothing quite like the Streisand effect to make a card so sought after.

I'd take it off the shelves, triple the price, post all over social media and then put one or two back on shelves and wait for it.

A single complaint?!

Maybe it was the polycule's complaint so it held more weight?

I am not sure what I find more ridiculous: the complaints or Sainsbury's response. You can identify as a ton of characteristics including, but not limited to, non/religious, belonging to countries/ cultures/ nationalities, dis/abled, neurodiverse, etc. The egocentricity really knows no limits - and neither does the cowardice.

A case of Grinchphobia.

I'm a grinch, according to my entire family.
Why can a card not represent my identity and lived experience?!
I mean allegedly, for these whining blokes, their identity as women and their lived experience as trans is super important....like really, really, bigly important...But mine?

It's very tempting to continually "identify as" something mundane or vaguely amusing just to wind up the holier-than-thou TRA brigade

Existing thread here - with some interesting responses!
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5461532-transphobic-christmas-card-pulled-from-sainsburys?page=1

So does this mean they recognize 'i identity as' as meaningless bollocks?