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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Men who affirm TW

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Holdmeclosertinydancer2018 · 05/03/2026 13:22

This is something I've wondered for a while and a post from a woman on FB asking/stating the same thing prompted me to ask everyone's opinions on this.

I have noticed a large proportion of Trans Idealogues on both FB and Reddit go absolutely berserk when someone points out that TW are not, in fact women, but oddly, a large proportion of them are men.

Now I completely understand the women that have bought into this notion as women generally speaking tend to be more empathetic for their fellow human so are more likely to go along with 'be kind'. But what about the swathes of seemingly normal, gender conforming men that support it? I don't know a single man other than one in real life (who's daughter is apparently now a 'she') that support the idea that TW are women. What is their motive for this?

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Helleofabore · 06/03/2026 12:51

PeachyDaisy · 06/03/2026 11:47

If this brave new world also showed a reduction in violence against women maybe

I'm the same. if it showed a reduction in of the violence to the trans community and no increase in violence to women then I would probably support it. I personally don't object to a transwoman joining a womans bookclub as I dont think them being there leads to an increase in violence. But I would object to them in changing rooms, prisons and etc.

And this is where all the logic crumbles away.

If a male person is 'female' to join a female only group, how do they then have to accept that they are not female enough to access a female changing room, a female rape crisis centre, a female sport or a female prison?

Every single time they are excluded from a female single sex provision, they really are being told that they are not female at all and that everyone is just acting as if they support them for 'some' instances to keep them happy. How does this supposedly improve someone's mental health if they say that the only way they can live happily is if they are accepted as being a 'woman'?

Giving with one hand and then taking away with another is completely undermining that person's belief. Unless that person is fully aware that they are not a 'woman' and therefore why are they then claiming to be a woman?

Helleofabore · 06/03/2026 12:57

This only for 'some' instances really does completely highlight the falsity of that person's identity claims. The activists are correct on that. That if a group of people use pronouns and language because they feel it is 'kind' even if they don't believe it, allow a male person to join a female group etc, it is cruel to exclude them from anything else that is female only. Male people with transgender identities have been telling us this for a decade, yet some people are not listening.

It seems that some people feel that they can pick and choose what male people should and shouldn't have access to based on what they, personally, feel is appropriate. And it seems those people feel that is them being kind and reasonable.

Yet, that cherry picking of when is appropriate to support an identity based on subjective reality and philosophical belief and when it is not appropriate is the opposite of kind and reasonable. As trans people themselves have been saying for a very long time now.

Shortshriftandlethal · 06/03/2026 12:59

Holdmeclosertinydancer2018 · 06/03/2026 12:12

If Reddit is anything to go by, the AGP forum is full of men stating they wish to be the desired party, the chasee instead of the chaser in dating. The MtF forum general consensus seems to be things like having doors held open for them and there is a lot of talk of the fetishisation of Transwomen ( ie men who specifically want to fuckna Transwoman, which upsets them as they want to be viewed as the real women they are- honestly, the mond boggles.

It is my opinion that many of theses men have, in their minds, failed at masculinity and therefore being a man. They appear to be mostly non competitive in nature (which would be a struggle for them within a Capitalist society) and envy the way women are treated so begin idolising femininity and womanhood to the point they want to become 'women'..

Anyone with the time spare, take a trip over to r/AGP, very interesting read.

I'm sure, but they don't represent mainstream opinion.

Some of the big battles have already been won, and the public is no longer quite so naive or blindly trusting.

Shortshriftandlethal · 06/03/2026 13:02

PeachyDaisy · 06/03/2026 11:27

We have rules and laws which govern such matters

Rules and laws work best if people follow them. They are not that effective if the majority of the public is pro-trans and believes TWAW so acts/votes that way. Winning over public opinion is crucial.

No, we don't have to do that. We don't have to weigh up anything. We just have to insist that women's rights and protections already exist. They do.

I used the word 'we.' I meant it more like society have to balance rights. Again, the other side chooses the former and we choose the latter.

The basic battles ( around public consciousness etc) have already been won, now we just have to insist that the law is applied as it should be. There will always be some who cling on to trans ideology - we're never going to change their persepctive.

Holdmeclosertinydancer2018 · 06/03/2026 13:06

Helleofabore · 06/03/2026 12:57

This only for 'some' instances really does completely highlight the falsity of that person's identity claims. The activists are correct on that. That if a group of people use pronouns and language because they feel it is 'kind' even if they don't believe it, allow a male person to join a female group etc, it is cruel to exclude them from anything else that is female only. Male people with transgender identities have been telling us this for a decade, yet some people are not listening.

It seems that some people feel that they can pick and choose what male people should and shouldn't have access to based on what they, personally, feel is appropriate. And it seems those people feel that is them being kind and reasonable.

Yet, that cherry picking of when is appropriate to support an identity based on subjective reality and philosophical belief and when it is not appropriate is the opposite of kind and reasonable. As trans people themselves have been saying for a very long time now.

Then they should be treated exactly as what they are, men in dresses. No access or acceptance of womanhood or to spaces that are for women only. Things would be much easier for everyone if this were the case.

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FlirtsWithRhinos · 06/03/2026 13:11

Holdmeclosertinydancer2018 · 06/03/2026 12:12

If Reddit is anything to go by, the AGP forum is full of men stating they wish to be the desired party, the chasee instead of the chaser in dating. The MtF forum general consensus seems to be things like having doors held open for them and there is a lot of talk of the fetishisation of Transwomen ( ie men who specifically want to fuckna Transwoman, which upsets them as they want to be viewed as the real women they are- honestly, the mond boggles.

It is my opinion that many of theses men have, in their minds, failed at masculinity and therefore being a man. They appear to be mostly non competitive in nature (which would be a struggle for them within a Capitalist society) and envy the way women are treated so begin idolising femininity and womanhood to the point they want to become 'women'..

Anyone with the time spare, take a trip over to r/AGP, very interesting read.

It is my opinion that many of theses men have, in their minds, failed at masculinity and therefore being a man. They appear to be mostly non competitive in nature (which would be a struggle for them within a Capitalist society) and envy the way women are treated so begin idolising femininity and womanhood to the point they want to become 'women'..

I think there is a cohort that this is definitely true for. They don't necessarily despise women but they really don't see us.

Helleofabore · 06/03/2026 13:15

FlirtsWithRhinos · 06/03/2026 13:11

It is my opinion that many of theses men have, in their minds, failed at masculinity and therefore being a man. They appear to be mostly non competitive in nature (which would be a struggle for them within a Capitalist society) and envy the way women are treated so begin idolising femininity and womanhood to the point they want to become 'women'..

I think there is a cohort that this is definitely true for. They don't necessarily despise women but they really don't see us.

"They don't necessarily despise women but they really don't see us."

They don't 'see' us at all. Yet they fully believe that their description of female people is 'us' and that they fit that description. The dissonance is like a huge bell tolling away.

That is why we end up with posters declaring that they are not 'male' because they have never penetrated anyone and nor do they want to. If that is not a fucking huge misogynistic red flag, then I don't know what is.

5128gap · 06/03/2026 13:22

PeachyDaisy · 06/03/2026 11:33

I'm curious, if there were studies that showed that socially accepting trans people as their chosen gender stopped all the violence, mental health, suicide etc in their community, would you support it then?

I'm just wondering if you position is driven by principle of single sex spaces or by the lack of evidence in social transition. I'm gender critical but I'm not ideologically captured so am opened to what new evidence shows,

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If there were studies that showed imposing an evening curfew on men stopped all instances of attacks on women on the streets at night, would you support it? Because most people would point out a whole lot of human rights issues and practical matters and collateral damage that meant, while it would undoubtedly achieve a legitimate aim, its not a proportionate means of doing so. Allowing some men to be treated as though they are women is the same. Though with few less likelihood it would actually achieve the aim you intend.

ElenOfTheWays · 06/03/2026 16:28

VoltaireMittyDream · 05/03/2026 15:52

I’ve discussed this at length with DH who is ND and, to his own mind, very ‘justice-sensitive’ and an all-or-nothing thinker.

Which I think would put him firmly in the category of men most likely to respond in a hectoring and mansplainy way on the internet.

What it seems to come down to for him is this:

  1. To claim anything other than TWAW is to get in bed with the far right and endorse literally everything Reform and Donald Trump stand for, including bombing schools and removing women’s right to vote. So to express any form of gender scepticism - whatever your views may be on other topics - is functionally equivalent to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia and fascism.
  2. He is personally offended by the assumption that men as a category pose a threat to women and children, and this feeling of insult bothers him more than violence against women, because it affects him and means that people might misunderstand him or be unfriendly to him
  3. he can’t relate to women’s fear of encountering a man in single sex spaces, because he’s not a woman, and he is just not all that interested in what women might experience because it’s unlikely ever to happen to him and is therefore irrelevant.

I’ve given up trying to talk with him about it, as he clearly thinks my mildly expressed desire for the construction of more toilets and changing rooms and the funding of a wider variety of refuges and crisis centres so that everyone can be accommodated safely and comfortably can only mean I’ve been radicalised by far right extremists.

He sounds absolutely horrible. An utter selfish wanker and a complete idiot too. I guess he must have SOME good points but I wouldn't be able to stay with such a man.

ElenOfTheWays · 06/03/2026 16:34

VoltaireMittyDream · 05/03/2026 15:56

It’s one of many - but to feel that way makes me ableist as well, apparently.

Who cares? You know that's not it. Being ND doesn't give him a right to bully you.

ElenOfTheWays · 06/03/2026 16:55

Theeyeballsinthesky · 05/03/2026 16:51

And I get that for "the woman in the street" but it is unforgivable amongst women whose jobs are entirely about looking at things on a system wide basis or about knowing where sex realky matters. The NHS is awash with people like this. How exactly do you plan for maternity services if you're prepared to gather statistics based on 'gender' or 'gender identity'? People whose job is to encourage women from disadvantaged cohorts to take up cervical screening who think it's mean to use the term woman and use 'cervix haver' even though we have tons of research that shows that language excludes for example women with learning difficulties

women like those running girl guides for example or the women's institute who are falling g over themselves to apologise ti men that they can't be members anymore and twisting themselves into pretzels yo see how they can appease them

these are professional educated women who bloody well should know better

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All true, and I totally agree; but I disagree about the average woman in the street. I have generally found that even those with no personal experience, if you explain it to them once, they get it and agree - not all of course but most. And, most encouraging of all, YOUNGER woman are starting to get it now. Perhaps, in their cases because they HAVE faced it, at school or university.

TheIceBear · 06/03/2026 17:11

PeachyDaisy · 06/03/2026 09:59

I don't know if it is necessarily true that they haven't thought about it. A lot of deep thinÄ·ers are pro trans. It is possible for two people to have the all the facts but still come to different conclusions (usually due to a difference in values). For example if you care most about preserving life then you might side with the trans community as they have a higher rate of suicide than women).

Just assuming everyone who disagrees with is automatically stupid/misinformed rather than simply having different values is lazy thinÄ·ing.

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I think it’s a bit much to imply that people who are gender critical don’t care about preserving life. Most people regardless of what their views are would hate the idea of anyone committing suicide . I certainly would and I do think trans people need mental health support. However access to women’s spaces at the expense of women’s safety and mental health is not the answer

ElenOfTheWays · 07/03/2026 02:01

PeachyDaisy · 06/03/2026 11:33

I'm curious, if there were studies that showed that socially accepting trans people as their chosen gender stopped all the violence, mental health, suicide etc in their community, would you support it then?

I'm just wondering if you position is driven by principle of single sex spaces or by the lack of evidence in social transition. I'm gender critical but I'm not ideologically captured so am opened to what new evidence shows,

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Knowing that people can't change sex and advocating for women's rights is not an ideology.

GC feminists are not "ideologically captured"
It's quite telling that you think so actually.

TempestTost · 07/03/2026 02:26

PeachyDaisy · 06/03/2026 09:59

I don't know if it is necessarily true that they haven't thought about it. A lot of deep thinÄ·ers are pro trans. It is possible for two people to have the all the facts but still come to different conclusions (usually due to a difference in values). For example if you care most about preserving life then you might side with the trans community as they have a higher rate of suicide than women).

Just assuming everyone who disagrees with is automatically stupid/misinformed rather than simply having different values is lazy thinÄ·ing.

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I don't know, to me the argument you have made here is a stupid person's argument.

For one thing almost everyone cares about preserving life, those on the left who think otherwise tend to be very sheltered.
Then why would you "side" with anything a group claimed or wanted just because of a high suicide rate? You could be concerned about that, but the logic there is not evident.

Personally I think seeing everything through the lens of oppression hierarchies is also not a particularly intelligent approach.

FlirtsWithRhinos · 07/03/2026 08:46

PeachyDaisy · 06/03/2026 11:27

We have rules and laws which govern such matters

Rules and laws work best if people follow them. They are not that effective if the majority of the public is pro-trans and believes TWAW so acts/votes that way. Winning over public opinion is crucial.

No, we don't have to do that. We don't have to weigh up anything. We just have to insist that women's rights and protections already exist. They do.

I used the word 'we.' I meant it more like society have to balance rights. Again, the other side chooses the former and we choose the latter.

Rules and laws work best if people follow them. They are not that effective if the majority of the public is pro-trans and believes TWAW so acts/votes that way. Winning over public opinion is crucial.

I'm quite shocked by that statement.

The majority of rapes are not prosecuted. A great many men, and even a fair few women, believe some rapes (such as martial rapes, drunken date rapes, prostitute rapes) should not even be illegal.

Should we get rid of the laws against rape?

PrettyDamnCosmic · 07/03/2026 09:24

FlirtsWithRhinos · 07/03/2026 08:46

Rules and laws work best if people follow them. They are not that effective if the majority of the public is pro-trans and believes TWAW so acts/votes that way. Winning over public opinion is crucial.

I'm quite shocked by that statement.

The majority of rapes are not prosecuted. A great many men, and even a fair few women, believe some rapes (such as martial rapes, drunken date rapes, prostitute rapes) should not even be illegal.

Should we get rid of the laws against rape?

PD is in Australia & I don't think is posting in good faith. They ignore the fact that in the UK (& I suspect even in Australia) the majority of the public does not believe TWAW.

Helleofabore · 07/03/2026 09:32

The majority of people do not support male people being in female single sex provisions.

There is a difference between people who say they are generally supportive of trans people and this then changes if specific questions are asked.

I wouldn’t trust any person who claims that the UK is the majority ‘pro trans’.

I would also not trust them if they said Australia was the majority ‘pro trans’ too. I would need to see the data collection questions and the breakdown of the data first.

LeftieRightsHoarder · 07/03/2026 09:43

I think it’s for the very simple reason that they see women as sort of defective men.

So males who aren’t quite up to the standard of being men — or who reject their male role because they aren’t strong enough to handle it, or who are too sex-obsessed to function normally — must obviously be women.

UtopiaPlanitia · 08/03/2026 15:58

Shortshriftandlethal · 06/03/2026 11:23

No, we don't have to do that. We don't have to weigh up anything. We just have to insist that women's rights and protections already exist. They do.

I agree that we need to reinforce the fact that women have inalienable rights in our civic society.

However, I also think that we need to get our wider society to understand that they have fallen for the public relations messaging of a sexual fetish disguising itself as a human rights category.

These men are performing their fetish in public and that is unacceptable. I will die on the hill of fighting to demonstrate the degradation of women that our society is allowing to happen in plain view.

Pornography (and the resulting effect on male sexuality) is responsible for the breaking of a lot of boundaries in our society in recent decades and we need to reinstate those boundaries in order to ensure the safety and well-being of our fellow citizens both male and female.

BeSpoonyTurtle · 09/03/2026 05:23

potpourree · 05/03/2026 13:27

Many men are extremely sexist and believe that men are people who are "masculine" and women (or non-men) are people who are "feminine", so they lap up an ideology that doesn't challenge this.

Never underestimate the number of men who are turned on by cross-dressing or shemales.

UtopiaPlanitia · 09/03/2026 17:26

I thought this would be of interest on this thread:

https://x.com/Jonnywsbell/status/2030798915423887413?s=20
"1973: Transsexuals smugly declare: "we chose to be women, transsexualism is the tip of the iceberg, sex is fluid, and birth certs must change"..
2026: They played the long game and won, biology is erased, dissent is crushed and women's rights are gutted...mission accomplished..."

Link for those not on TwiX:
https://nitter.net/Jonnywsbell/status/2030798915423887413#m

Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) on X

1973: Transsexuals smugly declare: "we chose to be women, transsexualism is the tip of the iceberg, sex is fluid, and birth certs must change".. 2026: They played the long game and won, biology is erased, dissent is crushed and women's rights are gutte...

https://x.com/Jonnywsbell/status/2030798915423887413?s=20

ScrollingLeaves · 09/03/2026 18:06

UtopiaPlanitia · 09/03/2026 17:26

I thought this would be of interest on this thread:

https://x.com/Jonnywsbell/status/2030798915423887413?s=20
"1973: Transsexuals smugly declare: "we chose to be women, transsexualism is the tip of the iceberg, sex is fluid, and birth certs must change"..
2026: They played the long game and won, biology is erased, dissent is crushed and women's rights are gutted...mission accomplished..."

Link for those not on TwiX:
https://nitter.net/Jonnywsbell/status/2030798915423887413#m

It is interesting to see them. In a way you can see how at that time they were probably effeminate gay men who were jeered at and told they were ‘sissies’ looked ‘just like a girl’ etc and in a way it might have been easier just to become somewhat disguised. This group seem almost Margaret Thatcher like, and as though they aspired to be ladies who go to the hairdresser every week and carry a handbag.

Pingponghavoc · 10/03/2026 21:28

These are the men we are told were accepted into or used the women toilets unnoticed.

Its like a monty python sketch.

I no longer believe that these men were bullied for being effeminate and therefore retreated into being a women. If that were true, we'd have far fewer men pretending to be women now, not more.

They are just wearing the fashions of the time, it doesnt mean they werent sexual motivated and just wanted to act like ladies who lunch. They are no different to any of the men now.

SternJoyousBeev2 · 10/03/2026 21:37

Helleofabore · 06/03/2026 12:51

And this is where all the logic crumbles away.

If a male person is 'female' to join a female only group, how do they then have to accept that they are not female enough to access a female changing room, a female rape crisis centre, a female sport or a female prison?

Every single time they are excluded from a female single sex provision, they really are being told that they are not female at all and that everyone is just acting as if they support them for 'some' instances to keep them happy. How does this supposedly improve someone's mental health if they say that the only way they can live happily is if they are accepted as being a 'woman'?

Giving with one hand and then taking away with another is completely undermining that person's belief. Unless that person is fully aware that they are not a 'woman' and therefore why are they then claiming to be a woman?

Exactly this. The stance that a male can be treated as a woman for some purposes and excluded for others is both illogical and cruel.

Pingponghavoc · 10/03/2026 22:05

I think the 'compromise' of female enough in some setting, but not in others has come from TW themselves.

In part, to get a foot in the door - grab wins when they can get them and work on others later. And partly as individuals to appear reasonable. Usually giving up spaces they would never use - like sport or opportunities they are personally not interest in.

I think the SC ruling shook them because they realised the decision was taken out of their control.

Unless that person is fully aware that they are not a 'woman' and therefore why are they then claiming to be a woman?

I think most of them are fully aware they aren't women because they think they are better than women. They are using women as props.