'Trans people are just trying to exist'

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Anyone seen this? Billboard in central Edinburgh. Wondering whether there are more across the country?

Men being men. Hating women.

The "just" there is mendacious.

They already exist.

What they "just" want is lots and lots of other things that society isn't willing to give them. Validation being the least of them.

Trying to exist is paradoxical. If you don't exist you have no ability to try, and if you do exist you have no need to try.

Whether or not trans people actually exist would be a matter of definition. Do there exist people who say they identify as the sex they are not? Obviously yes. Do there exist people who are the opposite sex to what they were born? No. Is there such a thing as an innate sense of something called gender which may or may not concur with your sex? I'm convinced there isn't from my observations of small children's developing world view.

Yes, none of us here deny that India Willoughby exists for example. We just disagree that he's no longer a man. Maybe not the best example as he now considers himself to be a ciswoman.

Holy shit, I did not know this. (I often stay away from this topic as I have a lot of trauma from being gaslit and hauled through a partner's gender transition before finding the courage to stick to my views on what's real and true!). I've just Googled and sure enough "Biological female. Don't identify as - am"

That's a pathological level of delusion

No one denies that they exist, and no one is trying to prevent them from existing. They can coexist along side me as much as they want. I’ll help them campaign for unisex third spaces, so they can be safe from idiot men who might pose a threat to them. But I won’t pander to the ideology and say TWAW, or TMAM, and accept them in women’s safe single sex spaces and sports etc.

Also, can someone put the “Adult Human Female” billboard up next to that, and see which one gets removed.

Trans people exist in the same way as witches, psychics and alien abductees exist.

There's nothing to show who sponsored it. The bits of white paper are flyers for a series of LGBT+ events.

The billboard is opposite an LGBT+ bar which is heavy on the T (decorated in trans pink and blue colours). I did wonder whether the bar paid for it, or whether that site was just chosen as perceived to be pro-trans.

The other possibility is that it is an unofficial poster rather than official paid-for advertising space. It's a bit big and a bit slick for that though

Maybe someone will stick a note or postscript onto that billboard poster. Like, nobody is denying you exist, just please use the correct sex specific toilets/changing rooms/rape crisis refuges/centres to allow women their privacy, dignity, safety and/or to respect their religious beliefs (particularly since sex and religious belief are protected characteristics). Ta much. Exist away.

I think this would be a wonderful place to share this quick clip about what happens when women attempt to 'just exist'.

Wow.

That was when I started peaking.
I remember hearing about the massive outcry and thinking 'WTF?'

Are you aware that a poster which said I ❤️JKR which was put up in Waverley Station a couple of years ago was removed?
Are you aware that a billboard with the dictionary definition of Woman as Adult Human Female was removed in Liverpool?
I also saw that billboard which has no links or identifying information as to who put it up there , very odd.
Trans people have the same rights as everyone else, however what they can’t do is force the rest of us to go along with the lie that humans can change sex

Once you see that, you can't unseen it.

I pointed it out to one of my DC recently. I'm not sure that I was sufficiently forceful, but I wait and hope...

Those poor people who gave potentially ruined their bodies, fertility and future health just trying to work out how to heal but getting bullied and harassed at every turn by trans people is heartbreaking.

The cult of the narcissists has to have its power removed and it will take many to do that.

Is that the line crossed by the billboard "I ❤️ J K Rowling" in Canada a few years ago?

Oh I don't think I've witnessed a drive by scolding before, yay!
Obviously trans people exist 🙄 Not least because they never bloody shut up.

Do they think they're Tinkerbell, and will die if people don't believe?

Gallant effort, RhannionKPSS, but Jo7890123 appears to have left, having no doubt decided that they had delighted us enough 😄

Lovely Mr Bennet reference there!

He can be a ciswoman if he likes. It’ll just be another word for trans identifying male. So they can have their stupid made up word, and women can just be women again. .

'Trans' is a brand and like all brands it needs to keep advertising lest it be forgotten about.

Does he, indeed.

Then presumably he's changed the definition of "cis" because Willoughby must know that he was born male.

I notice that both the transpeople on the poster are men.

No transmen on display, even though presumably they're just "trying to exist" as well. They're an irrelevance to TiMs, just as all women seem to be.

Tolerably sure the wife he impregnated and the child(ren) he sired are aware too.