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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

What's the deal guys?

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shadesOfTeal · 17/02/2026 21:23

I don't think this post is going to last long but what's the deal with hating trans women so much? I've been a women for 13 years of my life since 18 and it's never been a problem. Suddenly I'm not only talk of the town but also an evil man stealing everyone's rights away from them? I wasn't much of a boy as a kid anyway but. I just wanted to ask like what's the deal? Why do you hate the idea of me existing so much? What have I personally done to you that's been so bad? I feel like I need to be careful with my words because it'll be easy to accuse me of all sorts but I've done no harm to anyone. If you want to ask a trans woman some honest questions then please do, I don't usually talk about it in my day to day life and that, I'm pretty down to earth and will help you understand as much as possible. But I'd like to ask the people that hate me so much, can we ever get along? Please don't assume I'm what the internet and the media says I am though, I'm not like that at all! I just want us all to get on and I'm sick of having my life debated every 5 minutes.

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CassOle · 19/02/2026 12:36

IMO, it is extremely creepy when these male people claim female experience.

BackToLurk · 19/02/2026 12:36

ATranssexualWoman · 19/02/2026 12:31

They literally are. People assigned male at birth and female at birth aren't some different species. We're all female originally before the Y chromosome kicks in. It's why Oestrogen Hrt In trans women even does anything at all.

Thanks. That was all I was missing from my bingo card.

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 12:37

ATranssexualWoman · 19/02/2026 12:28

My mum knows I'm a woman and loves me for who I am

I think it is likely that your mother will accept that her male child holds the philosophical belief that they are somehow female and will agree to act as if that is true to keep her relationship with you.

I am sure too, that she loves you.

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:37

FranticFrankie · 19/02/2026 12:23

No you haven't changed your sex, 1post; it is not possible! Changing 'gender' is the more usual term.
Your mum should know.
You protest too much - perhaps you should have stuck to your name?

It is true that O and E are on opposite sides of the key board
In theory, this would would mean you don't have to strain using both hands to type.
(My hands are arthritic, so helps me a little)

My mum and I have competed together in sport, we have changed in changing rooms together, we share hotel rooms when we travel together, we have a lot of fun even though we enable each other's purchases more than we probably should.

All this is probably very shocking to the average sex realist. I'll leave you a moment to sit down and recover yourselves.

FuzzyPuffling · 19/02/2026 12:38

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:08

I've never had a PSA test, no one has ever mentioned it. A lifetime of estrogen use is very preventative against prostate cancer, so they tell me.

Nope, still not a woman.
No woman has a prostate gland.

Greyskybluesky · 19/02/2026 12:38

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:37

My mum and I have competed together in sport, we have changed in changing rooms together, we share hotel rooms when we travel together, we have a lot of fun even though we enable each other's purchases more than we probably should.

All this is probably very shocking to the average sex realist. I'll leave you a moment to sit down and recover yourselves.

Edited

Why would it be shocking?

You are very prejudiced, you know.

AnSolas · 19/02/2026 12:38

ATranssexualWoman · 19/02/2026 12:28

My mum knows I'm a woman and loves me for who I am

Your mum knows she grew and gave birth to a male¹.

[(Edit)
Sigh
¹based on your claim of being a male "woman" ]

CassOle · 19/02/2026 12:39

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FuzzyPuffling · 19/02/2026 12:40

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:37

My mum and I have competed together in sport, we have changed in changing rooms together, we share hotel rooms when we travel together, we have a lot of fun even though we enable each other's purchases more than we probably should.

All this is probably very shocking to the average sex realist. I'll leave you a moment to sit down and recover yourselves.

Edited

You go shopping with your mum and that proves you're a woman????
Now I think I may have heard it all!

😂

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 12:40

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:37

My mum and I have competed together in sport, we have changed in changing rooms together, we share hotel rooms when we travel together, we have a lot of fun even though we enable each other's purchases more than we probably should.

All this is probably very shocking to the average sex realist. I'll leave you a moment to sit down and recover yourselves.

Edited

Why would it surprise us, many of us are mothers, that a mother would do this while still knowing that their child is a male child?

Again, this is irrelevant to whether you are or are not a female person. None of it justifies you using female language for yourself.
My husband goes shopping with his mother, shares hotel rooms and has a lot of fun together.... doesn't make him a female person.

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 12:40

FuzzyPuffling · 19/02/2026 12:40

You go shopping with your mum and that proves you're a woman????
Now I think I may have heard it all!

😂

Did you see the penetration remark?

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:41

FuzzyPuffling · 19/02/2026 12:40

You go shopping with your mum and that proves you're a woman????
Now I think I may have heard it all!

😂

I'm certain youve heard it all.

Pingponghavoc · 19/02/2026 12:42

Theres a fantasy of the old school transsexual.

The apparently knew they were trans from an early age, 'fully' transitioned early, moved to a different area, look exactly like women, are accepted as woman by everyone, even doctors. Lived happily to old age with no complications.

Its us who are odd by making a fuss. We are complaining about people we cannot even identify from a line up.

Then we have reddit, who talk of not being able to pass, regret, transphobia, hating women for not accepting them, hating women for just being women. Constantly battles with laws and society just to be accepted.

Allies will say that trans people are the most marginalised in society.

So what is true? The fantasy of the old school transsexuals, or everyone else?

I'm not saying one is not real, but why arent people like one being the public voice transgenderism rather than the non passing, angry misogynistic men they use?

FuzzyPuffling · 19/02/2026 12:42

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 12:40

Did you see the penetration remark?

Yes. The ongoing excuses are very much scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:42

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 12:40

Why would it surprise us, many of us are mothers, that a mother would do this while still knowing that their child is a male child?

Again, this is irrelevant to whether you are or are not a female person. None of it justifies you using female language for yourself.
My husband goes shopping with his mother, shares hotel rooms and has a lot of fun together.... doesn't make him a female person.

I missed the part where they change together in change rooms and play on the same sport team together.

itsthetea · 19/02/2026 12:44

Sex realist

hum

you agree we’re being real ? We know what the world is ? We has our heads screwed on?

and you - a sex unrealist a you have unrealistic ideas about the world?

you are basically saying “I have problems with reality “

the simultaneous holding of the fact that you know what reality is but you don’t believe it - does that condition have a name?

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 12:45

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:42

I missed the part where they change together in change rooms and play on the same sport team together.

Edited

And my mother in law will no doubt accept her son's help in getting changed.

What of it? She doesn't believe her son, my husband, is female.

You really do try all sorts of irrelevant ways to justify your words. But it doesn't change the facts at all, your subjective reality that you are in any way 'female' does not reflect the universal material reality.

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 12:46

And so what that she plays on the same sports team.

Really???? How is this relevant?

Igneococcus · 19/02/2026 12:47

FuzzyPuffling · 19/02/2026 10:48

Me too. With my size 8 feet too.

Although, I am not a man, I have never been a man, I have never thought of myself as a man, society has never seen me as a man.
And I cannot, and never will be a man.

Also an 8 if there are no 7.5s available which usually aren't. Lets hope we don't get kicked out of the Bluestocking.

MarieDeGournay · 19/02/2026 12:47

FranticFrankie · 19/02/2026 12:31

Then your mum is telling big fibs, one cannot know something that is not true
Or just cos they love you

I think you've said something important there -

What does 'be kind' mean?
Does it mean not saying to someone who mistakenly believes they have changed sex that they are completely wrong, to the point of delusion, as it is not possible for humans to change sex; that no they do not 'pass', everybody can see that they are still their original sex but with a bit of modding; people who are being 'kind' to you are humouring you, in some cases because they love you.

In other cases, because they are afraid of being bullied by TRAs.

In lots of cases, because they really can't be bothered to deal with people with such a poor grasp of reality.

I would never be unkind to a trans person, because I'm not an unkind person; but if it involved someone I loved, I'd feel that 'kindness' would be reinforcing the inescapable truth of their biology, and lovingly supporting them to accept that reality, not going along with an obvious untruth.

AnSolas · 19/02/2026 12:48

ATranssexualWoman · 19/02/2026 12:31

They literally are. People assigned male at birth and female at birth aren't some different species. We're all female originally before the Y chromosome kicks in. It's why Oestrogen Hrt In trans women even does anything at all.

O my word😂🙈

No basic biology lessons or sex ed provided when you were in school?

Nope when mummy and daddy shared the special couple time and sometime later his sperm and her ova met was when the whole sex was "assigned" and creating an Existance begins. It is not some magic event that happrns hours or days later.

Pingponghavoc · 19/02/2026 12:48

There was a man who used to post here, kim something, who claimed his father forgot he was born male.

Kim transitioned after having at least one child of his own, and he believed that his father would forget such a key part of his sons birth?

They have to bend the truth to get their story to make sense.

solerolover · 19/02/2026 12:49
Taking Notes GIF

Things that constitute being female according to this thread: taking cross sex hormones, extreme body modification, being a bottom, shopping trips with mummy...the list is endless

All this time, I've been doing this human female thing all wrong

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:49

Pingponghavoc · 19/02/2026 12:42

Theres a fantasy of the old school transsexual.

The apparently knew they were trans from an early age, 'fully' transitioned early, moved to a different area, look exactly like women, are accepted as woman by everyone, even doctors. Lived happily to old age with no complications.

Its us who are odd by making a fuss. We are complaining about people we cannot even identify from a line up.

Then we have reddit, who talk of not being able to pass, regret, transphobia, hating women for not accepting them, hating women for just being women. Constantly battles with laws and society just to be accepted.

Allies will say that trans people are the most marginalised in society.

So what is true? The fantasy of the old school transsexuals, or everyone else?

I'm not saying one is not real, but why arent people like one being the public voice transgenderism rather than the non passing, angry misogynistic men they use?

Erasing us doesn't make us disappear. In this environment, I'd argue most of us would prefer you continue to tell everyone we don't exist. Keep telling the stories about the evil lumbering 6'5" bearded ladies.

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