It is a great opportunity for lurkers to see just how some of these male people build their subjective reality. If you cut arguements into portions.it is harder to read a full explanation and therefore people only focus on short portions
manipulation 101
SirChenjins ·
09/07/2026 21:04
Wilful ignorance - it's the only way they can exist and justify their actions.
Quoting EdithStourton
Helleofabore ·
09/07/2026 21:02
If it almost like a male person completely lives in a bubble where the reality of women’s rights issues simply don’t exist. Where every single person believes the male person is female, their children don’t know that they are male, and where passively accepting people’s erroneous or deliberately observing language is only ever based on the belief that that male person is a female. And the male person has never done anything that would cause those people to assume that he wants female language used for him.
Quoting Helleofabore
EdithStourton ·
09/07/2026 20:40
Yep.
There's also a hell of lot of deflection going on. Sweeping statements with no evidence, that sort of thing.
We've seen this sort of shit so many times before,
Quoting SirChenjins
Helleofabore ·
09/07/2026 18:19
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
SirChenjins ·
09/07/2026 18:18
Come off it - no- one is falling for that. Unless you have been living under an actual rock for tge last 20 years you know exactly what has happened to women in that time. Your faux ignorance isn't washing. Own it.
Quoting murasaki
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
09/07/2026 18:07
I disagree. That’s just your perception of what trans rights are doing to women’s right. It doesn’t make it true.
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
murasaki ·
09/07/2026 18:06
This is just not true. Colonising language, single sex spaces, getting people sacked, driving them to employment tribunals....
Quoting SirChenjins
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
09/07/2026 18:03
No one in the trans community is fighting for women to lose rights. You may see it that way but that’s not the goal of trans right, and lots of women don’t see it your way either.
Why should your rights be prioritised over trans rights?
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
SirChenjins ·
09/07/2026 17:40
That ship has sailed - the trans community fought for many years for women to lose their rights, and it's going to take many years to right those wrongs. If you had all simply said 'we have gender dysphoria and we're going to address this by modifying our male bodies - but don't worry, we know we're male and we won't impinge on the rights of women (and the rest of it) at all, we'll stick to the correct spaces for our sex - and other men will just have to get used to us and accept our form of maleness', or if you (the general you) had stood up to the TRAs and refused to be complicit in their appalling behaviour by voicing that loudly, then you wouldn't have had anything like the level of pushback you've had.
We won't compromise - we want our legal rights, and our privacy, dignity and safety, and we're taking all of them back.
Quoting SirChenjins
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
09/07/2026 17:19
I think I should be able to live without being distressed about my body. What is the compromise that keeps everyone happy?
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
SirChenjins ·
09/07/2026 15:29
Which would be fine, if that's all that it meant for women and our sex based rights, our livelihoods, our safety, our access to single sex spaces, our right to ask for a female for intimate care and so on.
But it's not. Far from it. Do you see that?
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DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
09/07/2026 15:23
So what? It made me comfortable and not distressed with my body. I don’t care that I didn’t change sex
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
SirChenjins ·
09/07/2026 15:04
But it didn't make you a woman.
Quoting AskingQuestionsAllTheTime
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
09/07/2026 14:58
No, it cured the distress I felt about my body which is what gender dysphoria is.
What the fuck are you talking about by straw men?
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime ·
09/07/2026 14:37
So you are now happy with the fact that you are male. I am so glad for you! But what on earth are you doing here throwing all the straw men in the air?
Quoting AskingQuestionsAllTheTime
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
09/07/2026 14:26
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime ·
09/07/2026 14:09
Yes, you said that. It's a lousy treatment because it DOES NOT CURE THE CONDITION, it treats the symptoms and hopes the individual will go away and stop taking up the doctor's time.
And that is assuming that the cause is in fact gender dysphoria and not herd mentality or fear of adolescence or trendiness or whatever other thing. These possibilities seem not to be particularly researched at all.
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Quoting AskingQuestionsAllTheTime
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
09/07/2026 14:04
The cause is gender dysphoria and that is treated with hormones and surgery
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime ·
09/07/2026 13:09
It's a poor treatment, given that those are not treating the cause; they are attempting to ameliorate symptoms without seeking the cause at all.
A bit like given someone whose heart-attack is presenting as indigestion a dose of Gaviscon (which will often work for a while to relieve the symptoms, which I find surprising). Or providing a wheel-chair for someone with a broken leg, but not setting the bones.
Quoting TheKeatingFive
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
08/07/2026 23:15
Gender dysphoria is the medical condition, and hormones and surgery is the treatment
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
TheKeatingFive ·
08/07/2026 23:05
So? Cosmetic surgery is a common enough practice. It doesn't indicate a medical condition
Quoting TheKeatingFive
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
08/07/2026 22:53
Whatever you want to call it, medical treatment is indicated for people presenting with gender dysphoria.
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
TheKeatingFive ·
08/07/2026 22:42
They take synthetic hormones / have cosmetic surgery.
Quoting TheKeatingFive
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
08/07/2026 22:40
What do trans people do if they don’t transition in some way?
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
TheKeatingFive ·
08/07/2026 22:38
There's no such thing as 'transition'.
No one can change sex, just as no one can change age.
Quoting TheKeatingFive
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
08/07/2026 22:37
Yes exactly. And the help for that situation is medical transition.
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
TheKeatingFive ·
08/07/2026 22:35
Well that's interesting ...
If she was so distressed she couldn’t refer to her age or celebrate she probably should’ve got some help.
Totally agree. But to paraphrase ...
If he was so distressed he couldn’t acknowledge his sex he probably should get some help.
Exactly the same principle.
Quoting TheKeatingFive
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
08/07/2026 22:31
That’s still not the same thing. Your aunt not liking getting older is not the same as her having distress because she thinks she is a different age.
If she was so distressed she couldn’t refer to her age or celebrate she probably should’ve got some help.
Quoting DumbfoundedAndUnhappy
TheKeatingFive ·
08/07/2026 22:24
My aunt refused to reference her age or mark her birthday and got extremely upset when anyone else did, after the age of 50.
I doubt she ever brought that up with her doctor, but until the last decade the majority of 'trans identifying men' wouldn't have done so either. Our historical awareness of cross dressing men comes mostly from the social clubs they created, not medicine.
Quoting Pingponghavoc
DumbfoundedAndUnhappy ·
08/07/2026 22:18
There are lots of people distressed about their age. Going through menopause can be depressing, so can becoming old. Few of us want to be living in 96 year old bodies.
That’s not quite the same thing though. Distress from natural aging is different to distress caused by identifying with a different age. People identifying as a different age or race just doesn’t exist in clinical data.
On being unable to test for it I disagree. In medicine, it is classified based on persistent subjective distress and behaviour, much like depression, anxiety, or ADHD. None of them have a physical "test" either, yet are treated as real clinical phenomena
Pingponghavoc ·
08/07/2026 22:09
There are lots of people distressed about their age. Going through menopause can be depressing, so can becoming old. Few of us want to be living in 96 year old bodies.
If we told our doctors we are depressed about getting older, they would be sympathetic but what could they do?
The medical profession has observed that some people present as the opposite sex. Thats all.
The medical profession has developed surgery and drugs that can alter a person's external appearance. Thats all.
Governments have allowed people to falsify official documents, that's all.
There is no test that can determine who is and who isnt trans. If there was and you failed it, would you cease to present as a woman? I know i wouldnt pretend to be a man if I passed such a test.
The research is just observing peoples behaviour.