Gender critical age ranges

51, I've always thought gender was bollocks. I was radicalised by MN about 5 years ago when it became apparent that the trans rights movement was repackaged misogyny and nothing but total capitulation to any and every demand would be enough.

I thought I'd mellowed with age but have found my patience for bullshit is in short supply and there are days when I'm fucking raging about this.

Mid 40s - recently discussed with various friends of same age (very cautiously) and all felt the same but with varying degrees of understanding of issues.

I think that becoming a mother opens people’s eyes to patriarchy in a new way, as it changes so many dynamics and relationships. Particularly for working mothers. This is just yet another strand.

50s, but have always been what would now be called “non gender conforming”.

Fuck that. I’ve been me, doing stuff. No gender identity required.

I've seen the word 'misogyny' laughed at by TRAs. And the rise of the 'Karen' and 'don't be a Karen' narrative is so fucking familiar.

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Late 50s. I've never had any time for style gangs or being told what to think. When i first became aware.of trans stuff, I was 'live and let live' about it. I still would be if it was just about clothes. I work in a school and have to be very careful about what I say, which is increasingly difficult.

Mid 40s.

Never believed changing sex was possible or real, or even appropriate, from age 5 when a classmate was bullied for playing in the home corner and wished he was a girl as a result. We loved the fact he played there and tried to console him.

In over 20 years of teaching, only had one extreme gender non conforming child, but that was handled well as he was happy in his body. It was the adults who needed reassuring!

But that was before the crazy that occurs now - which I only learned about via mumsnet / I am Spartacus threads and then fwr thereafter, 5/6 years ago.

I’m 23

Late 50s too. All these deluded young women who don't think the biological reality of the menopause will happen to them. Therefore biology doesn't matter. All these creepy men my age who never want to identify into the biological reality of being a woman my age.
A lifetime of being gender non-conforming and left leaning and getting called a "bigot" a "Karen" and a "pearl clutcher".
I'm glad to see younger women realising gender ideology is a problem for all women but I don't need to be validated by them.

I was regularly reading the MN feminism board in my late thirties and early forties. It took me a while to ‘get’ why this new issue mattered - it wasn’t helped by some of the acronyms/shorthand references in use on here, which initially seemed impenetrable. Plus I had some personal issues going on at the time, so steered clear for a while as I was reading/thinking about that topic. By my mid forties light had dawned and I was fully peaked. Now mid/late forties.

Oh and I was a teacher throughout the noughties in very diverse areas - a genuine cross-section of society. This never, ever came up. I started a thread about this a little while ago and it seemed that the wave of trans teens began in about 2017.

I'm 32

My partner is the same age and agrees as do most of my friends aged between 30 and 43.

I started properly paying attention to the gender nonsense when I was about 34/35. I'm 39 now.

Early 60s, as are friends who hold GC views.

I've always thought gender nothing but trouble, but events in the last five or six years have set my GC views more thoroughy.

I am cross with myself that I put up with so much shite from men in my younger years, and have not so much as a hint of a fuck left to give; I call out misogyny when I see it. I will do all I can to ensure the little girls in my extended family don't grow up in a misogyny-soaked mad world in which mens' feelz are deemed more important than reality.

I'm 55, my Dd is also GC, she is 18.

I'm 38, have been questioning this bullshit since I was 27.

I'm in my 60s, another second wave radfem,
In the early seventies, I lived in a flat underneath two trans women, or trans sexual, as they were known in those days.
It was obvious that they were coming from completely different places.
One wore discreet make up, conventional clothes, had an office job and wanted to blend in. She told me that when asked at primary school what she wanted to be when she was grown up, she answered “a lady”
The other was more like a performance, in your face, theatrical clothes, make up, even the chosen name was to stand out. It was all look at me, aren't I great, a better woman than you scruffy hippies downstairs.
I didn't then have the terms, but knew that gender dysphoria and auto gynephilia were different matters.
So when all this TRA stuff started, it felt very familiar. It was bullshit then and it's bullshit now.

I’m 37.

It’s heartening to see some younger women here too 🤗my sister is 21 and is very much “be kind”, “TWAW”, and we just avoid the topic now. I’m hoping she will come around eventually.

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@BadSkiingMum I agree completely- I was at secondary school from 1999-2004. I know that's a while back now but this was absolutely not a thing back then. Not at all. I just genuinely cannot think what our reaction would possibly have been as teenagers back then because it just wasn't happening like it is now.

My 15 year old rolls her eyes at the pronouns nonsense. She still thinks sex work is work but she's not far away from getting her head straight on it

Mid-thirties. I first came across someone saying TWAW on an American feminist blog when I was in my early twenties. Thought it was complete nonsense then, too. My comment and the other critical ones got deleted. I thought it was just internet eccentricity and moved on to another blog. I never could have guessed how far the nonsense would go.

Mid 50s.
Openly sick of this shit and so I don't really hear anything from people with gender woo beliefs. I don't go looking for fights but I'm happy to meet anyone on the field of debate.