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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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callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:20

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:13

I've never said sex isn't real.

Sex takes several real forms that influence how we live. One is the singular focus of sex realists and involves gametes and biological processes. The other forms are represented by and with gender culturally, within communities and between individuals as we all interact with one another through the day.

I changed my sex. The world moves me around as a woman. Simple.

You didn't change your sex. You're the only transwoman who says they've changed sex. All other transwomen don't deny their sex and they admit they 'haven't changed my sex'. So you must be having us on because. Transwomen have never claimed they actually change sex. You change gender, not sex.

itsthetea · 19/02/2026 16:21

This world clearly doesn’t move round you as a woman !

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:22

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.

Yet you still have your prostate checked, right? The finger up the bum (sorry to be crude) check? If you've never had it checked, you're risking your health, regardless of oestrogen use.

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:27

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:06

No one has ever and will never abuse me (illegally I might add) for using women's spaces. Men's spaces, before I transitioned, were completely different.

Anyway, what I wrote had nothing to do with my experience and everything to do with those who are perceived to be trans.

Transwomen themselves have said they don't get abused in the mens. Men don't look up at others. One even took phone videos of him going in the urinals. No problemo. And he didn't pass btw. So you're not telling the truth there. Secondly women are not human shields for males. Hens are not shields for foxes being being by other foxes. It is per the Equality Act 2010 for you to use a female only single sex toilet which is designated single sex. You are not only traumatising women you are breaking the law.

CheesemongersApprentice · 19/02/2026 16:29

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 15:19

I question which country was giving 15 year old male people estrogen as part of a treatment for a gender identity back in the 80s. That sounds to me like it is cowboy medicine territory.

Oh come on Helle. It's just as likely as having a Granny who was actually a man with a DSD.

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:32

ATranssexualWoman · 19/02/2026 12:26

Same here. The medical advice and evidence is fairly clear that Oestrogen HRT, coupled with T blockers / Sex Reassignment Surgery drops my risk down to near enough zero that it's nothing to worry about.

If anyone told you that they are lying and guilty of medical misconduct because that is simply not true. No medical advice or evidence says that.

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:33

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 12:28

Gender wasn't a thing when I went through the process. It was 'sex.'

As in transsexual. But even then, transsexuals knew they never actually changed sex.

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:36

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.

Wrong! Not this bs. Sex is assigned the moment the male sperm or female sperm (which determines sex) enters the ova at conception. BUT, the sex of the embryo cannot be 'differentiated' until 6 weeks. That myth was debunked in the 1970s, for goodness sake!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 19/02/2026 16:38

I have seen that bs so many times, @callmeLoretta1 - it enrages me.

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:38

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

Nope I just see a mother and son going on holiday and shopping together. That's all. Men can do shopping stuff with their mum too.

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:42

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.

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What's the deal guys?
callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:47

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.

"*ABSTRACT
The chromosomal sex of the embryo is established at fertilization. However, 6 weeks elapse in humans before the first signs of sex differentiation are noticed.
*"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279001/

DeanElderberry · 19/02/2026 16:48

but, but, but

What's the deal guys?
AnSolas · 19/02/2026 16:49

Helleofabore · 19/02/2026 15:19

I question which country was giving 15 year old male people estrogen as part of a treatment for a gender identity back in the 80s. That sounds to me like it is cowboy medicine territory.

Was Iran transing away the gay back then or was that in the 90's?

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:59

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AnSolas · 19/02/2026 17:03

FlirtsWithRhinos · 19/02/2026 16:03

I keep coming back to the story of Archibald Stansfeld Belaney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Owl

Under his Native American persona he succesfully brought conservation of Canada's natural environment into the public eye. He seems to have adopted the persona out of genuine respect for and sense of identify with Native American cultures, and had close Native American friends and relatives by marriage who welcomed him and supported the deception.

Does that make his lie ok? Should actual First Nation Americans who grew up in the confines imposed on their culture and lifestyle, with the racism and generational trauma of being the conquered other, be expected to welcome him unconditionally as a brother, as a representative even?

Would he even have been able to have the same impact if he had grown up as they did, or was it the very fact that he wasn't held back by an actual First Nation heritage that allowed him to present a sanitised fantasy of the Noble Savage that was acceptable to European-cultured sensibilities rather than being defined by the reality and history of the people he claimed to belong to?

I note he did not claim a white/Scottish mother and Apache father.
Most of us can all understand the cultural landscape as to why that was an important detail of the adopted persona.

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 17:03

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 13:03

✔ Your request is considered
✔ I am sad to say your request has been denied

Please resubmit in 5-7 weeks.

And that is the spiteful smug male narcissism that outs you as a male.

A woman would never respond like that.

DeanElderberry · 19/02/2026 17:06

AnSolas · 19/02/2026 17:03

I note he did not claim a white/Scottish mother and Apache father.
Most of us can all understand the cultural landscape as to why that was an important detail of the adopted persona.

I also wondered about the name Belaney. Was his grandfather a Blaney who wanted to erase his Irishness? That nose and those cheekbones would not be out of place in the Wesht.

lifeturnsonadime · 19/02/2026 17:11

The only erasing that is going on is oneposts attempt of self erasure of his maleness. Albeit that he is failing miserably at it.

I also find it hypocritical that the very fact that he is not a female or a woman is made obvious by the fact that we don't have to spend hours of our time on a thread trying to convince women that we are women.

The rest of it is just a load of fantasy guff. He enjoys it. He couldn't enjoy it if he wasn't male.

itsthetea · 19/02/2026 17:12

Men can be short or tall
stocky or slight
they can like rugby or shopping, heavy metal or sparkles, or all of those things or none
there is nothing that makes a man a man beyond his biology. It says nothing about a person.

being arrogant or aggressive, over confident , dismissive of women - those are all traits shared by many men but not all men. And some women. But more often men

quite fascinating the number of transwomen men who have all those traits

Pingponghavoc · 19/02/2026 17:12

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 16:47

"*ABSTRACT
The chromosomal sex of the embryo is established at fertilization. However, 6 weeks elapse in humans before the first signs of sex differentiation are noticed.
*"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK279001/

Edited

The people who claim everyone is female at conception also know sex selection of embryos exists.

Unless they think mystic meg gets involved?

RapidOnsetGenderCritic · 19/02/2026 17:24

onepostwonder · 19/02/2026 08:07

I'm not the cynic labeling someone's entire life as a lie.

Your "gender identity" is your entire life? That is not at all healthy. My sex is nowhere near my entire life, and I think that applies to very nearly every person in the world.

itsthetea · 19/02/2026 17:25

Pingponghavoc · 19/02/2026 17:12

The people who claim everyone is female at conception also know sex selection of embryos exists.

Unless they think mystic meg gets involved?

That’s what makes this horrific - girls are terminated because they are girls

callmeLoretta1 · 19/02/2026 17:26

Pingponghavoc · 19/02/2026 17:12

The people who claim everyone is female at conception also know sex selection of embryos exists.

Unless they think mystic meg gets involved?

Exactly. And sperm-sorting exists. It's a way for a couple who are going through IVF are able to choose the sex of their baby. If sex isn't determined until 6 weeks, well after conception, @ATranssexualWoman , explain HOW one is able to select the sex of the sperm that enters the ova that gives them the desired sex?

What's the deal guys?
AnSolas · 19/02/2026 17:31

DeanElderberry · 19/02/2026 17:06

I also wondered about the name Belaney. Was his grandfather a Blaney who wanted to erase his Irishness? That nose and those cheekbones would not be out of place in the Wesht.

Google says Welsh meaning highlands too or old french which could track with Norman bel = belle(?)

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