The sacrificial lamb: Transsexual "Louise" blames transgenders and GCs for everything. Oh, and also the Government. And the NHS. And gender clinics. And GRCs. And possibly my dog.

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https://genderblog.net/a-transsexual-writes/

Well, this is odd: a strange blog from Nick Wallis, written almost entirely by a "transsexual" (self-termed) person called Louise.

I wouldn't even know where to start to respond to such hyperbole, but the comments by Jennifer Gourley, in the Comments section, say pretty much everything I could think of.

One small quote from "Louise" (it's a pseudonym) sums it up:

"So you see we’re the little guy in the middle being shot at by both sides. The sacrificial lamb in somebody else’s war."

The "little guy" would be transsexuals. Or something.

Even the 'old-school transexuals' Blanchards HSTS still spent years being socialised and treated as men and still expect to be - as demonstrated by Louise's attitude to his GP and what they should be doing for him- serving him.

My first experience with a TS was in primary school in the mid 80s when for a term we had an additional teacher who sat at their own desk in the corner of the room, wearing a lot of tight polyester, a wig, a lot of make up, and large heels. Large as in size 12. We weren't really given an explanation as to Miss Double, although perhaps the name was a clue. The constant interrupting and correcting of our female teacher certainly was!

But what was it you wanted her to say about women? The article wasn’t about biological women

I have reread Louise’s letter and I have looked at the comments that have been made. Some of them are very astute.

I’m not sure about this, but I’m no longer convinced that Louise does think of himself as a woman. I was sympathetic to him at first but I’m becoming increasingly uneasy at the resentment he shows and from what seems to me to be a distancing from biological females.

Does anybody else think that? I mean, yes, obviously people do judging from the comments on this thread. I’m really more perplexed than ever about what’s going on in Louise’s head..

He wants people to regard him as a woman (or so he says anyway). You’d think he might mention the word once or twice

people who want to be doctors tend to talk about medicine all the time…

Some sort of acknowledgement from him that his choices are having an impact on the rights of women, whether he's responsible or not, he's not the only man that thinks he can be a women just because he wants to be.

He maybe wrapped up in his own little world, but he's part of an ideology that is presenting a massive danger to young, impressionable children.
Some sort of understanding that it's all bigger than him, and there's been a lot of damage done, some empathy for others, seen's we're all expected to be falling over ourselves to be emphatic to him.

Either a naive or disingenuous question.

The whole bloody article was about his attempt to be a woman for goodness sake! Yet he could not bear to say the word to refer to our biology. He reduced us to the phrase The GC throughout a very lengthy article to try and minimise the value of women's very valid concerns. Because he could not bear to recognise who we are and that he will never be.

Othering. See also The Second Sex.

Have a read of this thread, particularly the linked post. It absolutely was people like Louise 30 years ago who set this in motion. Although the thread title mentions 2007, it goes further back to when the GRA was being planned in the 90s and early 2000s.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3463920-Lets-go-back-to-2007?reply=83696520

Nick Wallis is doing what a journalist needs to do-- cover the story, not a side.

I applaud him for this. We want to know the beliefs we are countering surely.

There was so much I disagreed with in 'Louise's' unhappy story that I did not know where to start but at least it is an answer to our "I wonder what the old school transexuals are thinking about all this" question.

You would think that someone who, no doubt, claims such an affinity to women that he actually is a woman, would mention the tension between the 'rights' that transsexuals claim, to access our spaces and sports and words, and the rights of (biological) women. You would think that he might suggest some ways in which women and HSTS might move forward. However, he actually goes out of his way to say That is what this is all about. Not toilets. Not hospital wards. Extermination. In his use of language and hyperbole he manages to come across as hating women so much that he cannot even bear to say our name.

I'd suggest it isn't ignorance or crass stupidity. It's trying to eliminate copy from a a journalist who is prepared to do real work on a story, and who has a credible history and some reach.

Louise displayed the same levels of emotional incontinence that we see on here from those who initially claim to be "as GC as they come / agree with JKR" but usually implode (some only last a few hours) with an emotionally incontinent stream of hatred and abuse aimed the "the GCs".

Just like Louise, these posters can't manage their seething contempt for women initially evident from the "you lot, bunch of women" type comments and always ending up in full blown meltdown when challenged. .

FWR is like catnip to them. 😁

Thanks for that, @OldCrone what an eye-opener!

I echo what one poster on there said: what was I doing in 1996, such that I didn't realize this was starting/going on?? Imagine if we had known then what we know now? This is what I mean when I say that some men are playing the Long Game.

I need to spend some time reading the old thread, but I hope @PencilsInSpace won't mind me quoting just this part below (excerpts - background to the whole thing):

PencilsInSpace · 30/12/2018 12:42

Shocking isn't it when you dig up this stuff and discover this was the plan all along?

The trans rights movement started with the Beaumont Society - a club for heterosexual cross-dressing men and their wives. TS could join too but they said no to drag queens because homophobia. Stephen Whittle was the first FTM to join Beaumont and was very active in the organisation.

The various demographics have been inseparable throughout PFC [Press for Change] history. They championed the use of the word trans as it did not discriminate between TS and TV.

So it was never a case of the trans (as in TS) umbrella widening to include TVs and cross-dressers, rather it was the TV and cross-dressers umbrella widening to include TS.

PFC were consulted on changes to the Sex Discrimination Act in 1999. Women were not. Let that sink in. Women were not consulted on changes to the Sex Discrimination Act

PFC were talking about self-ID in 2000
Also in 2000 PFC were talking about an ultimate goal of just not recording sex

PFC were actively consulted (as in, invited to meetings in government departments and sent confidential drafts of reports for feedback) from the earliest stages of the work that resulted in the GRA.

It was PFC themselves who first spotted the potential problem with inheritance and primogeniture and actively suggested an exception. As far as I can tell this is the only exception they thought reasonable - but I'd have to dig out the original archived correspondence to verify that. It's all carefully preserved apparently because they're very proud of what they've done.

Throughout all this cosy consultation period (Chritine says they knew they were getting somewhere when the best biscuits came out at a private chat at the Home Office ) PFC simply failed to mention that when they said 'trans' this included every cross-dresser and knicker fetishist in the country.

Totally. And his tenacity. V unwelcome to TRAs.

Absolutely. Very revealing to be frothing about Nick, Sharron Davies & JKR while reminding everyone that Savile was never convicted of peadophilia!

Yes. That bit did give me a WTF moment. When someone shows you who they are...

The Computer Weekly article, that @MyAmpleSheep mentioned, started the PO Scandal story rolling and was written by a female journalist, Rebecca Thomson, who NW repeatedly credits in his coverage.

Article here for anyone interested.
https://archive.ph/XWHpj

Yes. Dog with a bone. Thank goodness.

This sums it up.

It's all about him.

Not other people who might identify as trans and certainly not about his impact on women which he's hand waved away for years and filed as 'not relevant or important'.

Turns out everyone else does matter.

The comments under that article are excellent.
Thank you mary if you are here, and thank you all the others who took time to write truth and fact.

Louise, be angry at the NHS for whatever reason you want, but it's not "the GCs" who put you where you are now.

Nice to see Jo March still going strong

Isn't it. Her comments under articles in the Times did so much to educate a generation of readers. She's brilliant.

I don't recall any GC saying anything about adult men and transgender clinics except about some of the blokes that work there. I see 'Louise' claims to be a transexual, did it years ago (before it became fashionable), had the surgery, got the GRC. So just like Lynsay Watson then? I very much do not think he is Watson but they have a similar transition journey. Which shows that alone says nothing about how safe or reasonable such men are.

Incidentally, Alcove's takes are a bit niche! 😁

Sorry...🧥

Couldn’t love Jo March more. From her name to every comment, chef’s kiss!

I notice this with the tedious stream of TIMs who come on here, start a thread, or early on join one, with the pretext of "I just want to really understand the GC view, surely if we all just talk...", and within the space of about three posts the barbs come out.
It's as if they can imitate women's natural propensity for communication to start, but then can't follow it thru. The whole thing an illusion, matching the illusion of <being> a woman.

Louise reminds me of Brianna Wu, willing to throw any other trans identified man under the bus as long as they get to do what they want. I've seen Wu saying that he deserves to be treated as a woman because he's put the effort in.

Similar to Buck Angel who says she recognises she's female but still thinks she should be treated as a man because she has put the effort in and is a real old school transsexual