Gender critical age ranges

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Early 30s.

50. Dd's 20 and 17

I’m 60.
I have never thought TWAW, but when I was younger I thought of the as victims of the patriarchy, and that transsexuals would sort of die out as men were raised with less restricting stereotypes of what a man should be.
That was before I understood autogynephilia.

Five or six years ago my family all thought I was mad when I started going on about this. Now they’re all as terfy as me, including my daughter, late 30s. Younger family members, teens and 20s, are terms as well, but the university students won’t talk about it there.

I am very open about my views in real life - I have NEVER encountered anyone who disagreed with me. (I do live in a rural, Tory and Brexit voting area, I appreciate its different in Brighton).

‘Terfs’ not terms

I'm 52 and never thought that people could actually change sex. I was of the opinion that they were small in number and unproblematic, why not make accommodations?

Five years ago, I was trying to find a sport / physical activity my daughter would enjoy, so had a look online. "Don't bother, Rachel McKinnon!" and similar stories were the first result. I then found out about the other things, predators in toilets, prisons and other places where women may be vulnerable.

All the extremist zealots shouting women down, attacking them with impunity, as Police looked on, the vile threats online. I realised very quickly who was in the right.

Early 40s. Been GC for about 10 years

Mid 40s with a degree in Biology, working in a male-dominated STEM environment.

Old enough to recall "I'm a lesbian trapped in a man's body!" being a silly joke from Lad Mags era 1990s.

Also used to hearing lesbians referred to as "todger dogers". Not meant to be derogatory, just bluntly accurate.

37 here

39. Radicalized by Mumsnet after I started seeing papers like the NYT and the Washington Post smear JKR as a transphobe and fell down the rabbit hole of wanting to know what the hell was going on.

45. DD is 13, cousin 60, niece 23. All think similarly.

40, never believed one could change sex however was alerted to what was going on last October when I realised I was playing football against a dude (in a Womens football league!!!) mumsnet opened my eyes and proud to be a terf ever since. my son aged 11 thinks its absolute BS

50 here. Ds 16 and dd 19 think the same as me.

50s here but 31 year old DD, who works in the charity sector in Children’s services and deals with very vulnerable children, has been GC since she became aware of this debate, 4 years ago. The vast majority of her friends are GC too.

Mid 50s and I'm GC.

DH, who is also mid-50s, thinks TWAW and even used that ridiculous phrase "assigned at birth".🙄

I’m 27

Been GC since 2017, so since I was 21/22

Late 20's

Late 40s, and I know nobody in real life I can talk to this about. They are all ‘born in the wrong body’, ‘trans women are women’, ‘my nephew is now a niece, so brave’ blah blah blah. I’ve had to fill out a dyslexia assessment form for my son this week. And there are mandatory fields to fill-in about sex assigned at birth, gender, pronouns etc. I was about to text my friend to complain and then I realised I couldn’t.

I think the perception that it’s older women, is probably because we were some of the first to speak out. And also society loves to demonise us. You know, the whole Karen thing.

I am in my 30’s. I honestly didn’t pay much attention for a long time. First thing that made me think was how the media started saying JKR was transphobic as if it was fact. I tried to find out what she said and became GC.
I think the thing that cemented it was I was finding that all of a sudden the language around womanhood and their experiences was being changed and I found it jarring.

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But I never believed any of it. I remember reading an article about a sex change in my Nan’s “Woman’s Own” when I was 10, and even then I thought the evidence for being born in the wrong body sounded ludicrous and based on outdated stereotypes.

69 and a biochemist so completely GC. As I’m retired, and my grandson wasn’t at school, I didn’t really realise what was going on until a couple of years ago when I was in hospital and the nurses were talking about how worried they were about their female patients. I’ve been assaulted more than once so I’m very concerned about biological males in my loos and hospital wards (frequent NHS flyer).
However, I have hope because my 33 year old gay son and his partner are GC and keep recommending me podcasts I should listen to. My husband is also a scientist so has the same views.

I suspect many people my age really aren’t up to speed on gender nonsense and a male friend of mine said he didn’t understand it and wasn’t interested! I suspect he might be when it affects his wife or female relatives.

Mid 20s. I was never fully comfortable with TWAW as a student but I tried my best to convince myself into it. I've always been a political moderate and I didn't want to be alienated from my social circles. It's only in recent years that I've realised my group of nerdy TWAW friends was only pro woman on the very surface. Misogyny is still rife in those hobbies but they just hide it better.

I feel about this old.