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Genuine question, why don't we seem to hear about the born women who are now trans male, causing issues relating to same sex spaces. I have to say I've not read a single news article where this has been the case. I know it probably exists but it isn't being pushed on us as much as the trans women debate. Is it because men just wouldn't tolerate them in their changing rooms full stop? Threat of violence maybe. I have to admit I don't know any trans males either, though I work with a couple of trans women (and they are quiet, unassuming, nothing like the idiots spouting crap on social media.) It'd be interesting to know any relevant statistics but I wouldn't know where to begin looking.
Because men are gobshite whether they remain a full man or not. They can’t resist trying to tell women how to live their lives and what they’re doing wrong. Step remotely out of line and they call us out in a heartbeat. So it makes sense that when the become a woman the like to spout off the most. Knobheads.
 
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I don't suppose 'trans men' are romping around in gay men's saunas hoping to join the fun
or proudly showing off their peewee surgery at the nightclub urinals
or loitering around sports locker rooms creepily asking teen boys 'do you have wet dreams' yet?
or lurking round young lads in M&S changing rooms asking if they need help trying on underwear
Are they on dating sites like tinder and grindr trying to pull gay men?
If so what do gay men think about the 'cotton ceiling' debate?
How many gay men who support trans rights are OK with dating a trans man and being intimate with one but they expect lesbians to do it?
Does anybody remember the US version of shameless where the gay brother ends up dating a trans man? He finds it super difficult at first and the trans men shows him all their “toys”. Talking like they had an actual pen with feeling, um no you don’t if you’re using dildos! They were talking down to the gay character like he was just also what’s wrong with the world like TERFs. Laughable
 
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There have been a few articles about trans men going to gay saunas etc. and being made to feel unwelcome. I think it's something we're going to see more of as the first wave of teenage girls who've had surgery start exploring these places.
 
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It’s funny because a gay friend of mine was talking about how he was becoming fed up with ‘lesbians’ ‘invading’ spaces almost exclusively patronised by gay men (gay clubs and pubs mainly). He was bemused by the sudden influx of females over the last few years. While he was talking I realised that these were not lesbians but trans-identifying (mainly) straight women who’d gone there to try and crack on to gay men - he’d read them as butch lesbians because of the way they presented.

The irony is that a close relative of his is a trans-identifying male and he actually said to me, “we always thought he might be trans because he wanted to wear dresses as a young boy.” So this young man was accepted by him as a ‘woman’, but the TIFs he encountered were only ever perceived as female.
 
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There have been a few articles about trans men going to gay saunas etc. and being made to feel unwelcome. I think it's something we're going to see more of as the first wave of teenage girls who've had surgery start exploring these places.
There was also an advert / window display for a gay sauna in (I think) Soho featuring hot shirtless tanned gay men and… a doughy TIF in boxers and a bleeping binder.

So as much as we all think gay men aren’t interested in TIFs, they’re still having TIFs presented to them as potential hook up partners.

Whether any actually have the balls (pun intended) to waltz in with their binders on and expect men to find them attractive I don’t know.

Wish I could track down the photo but I can’t find it now. It was a few years ago and all over Twitter at one point.
 
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Most men are trans inclusive in the streets, but terfs in the sheets.
I have a friend, a drag queen, who was hounded off the gay scene in Manchester for suggesting that there should be more suspicion of weirdo heterosexual men claiming to be women, and he always says that they're all TRAs in the streets and Terfs in the sheets.

Not one of these gay men would duck a trans man. Not a chance.
 
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It is sad reflection of late stage capitalism, that magical thinking has, for a lot of people, usurped critical thinking.
 
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I just wish everyone would bleeping grow a pair (do please forgive the very obvious pun) & stop being so unutterably nesh. FFS. I swear, every generation that arrived after Gen X is a crowd of bleeping pussies. Zero sense of humour, zero backbone, zero common sense. 🙄

What I have noticed in current year is that everyone seems to be obsessed with appealing to authority, like rushing to teacher (ie police, law courts) whenever hurty words are said.

When I were a lass 😉 we would never dream of doing that for stuff we could sort out ourselves. I don’t know why the change has happened - whether young people are getting more authoritarian minded (the cancellation trend would also seem to support this), or whether it’s a class thing, and the urban middle class who make up a lot of the discourse on this topic, just really, really enjoying sicc’ing their lawyers on people
 
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The post on FB is full of the "What's the problem, you're bathroom at home is gender neutral?"

So witty, so original, so irrelevant.
It’s the most stupid argument. People’s homes and bathrooms are not open to any random coming along. Public toilets, changing rooms etc are open to strangers. I’m guessing most people aren’t allowing any random in to use their bathroom.
 
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The post on FB is full of the "What's the problem, you're bathroom at home is gender neutral?"

So witty, so original, so irrelevant.
LOL I remember Ash Sarkar (is she still a thing? I wouldn't imagine she's still a thing) used this zinger during 2022 when the trans 'debate' (LOL) was at its height and someone quote tweeted "Heyyy, it's all round to Ash's whenever we need a wee fellas, she's leaving her front door unlocked and we can all use the loo"
 
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LOL I remember Ash Sarkar (is she still a thing? I wouldn't imagine she's still a thing) used this zinger during 2022 when the trans 'debate' (LOL) was at its height and someone quote tweeted "Heyyy, it's all round to Ash's whenever we need a wee fellas, she's leaving her front door unlocked and we can all use the loo"
I don’t know if she’s still a thing, but I was in a bookshop this morning and I spotted a pile of her books under a table, pushed to the back and had a good chortle to myself! Hopefully symbolic of her relevance.
 
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The post on FB is full of the "What's the problem, you're bathroom at home is gender neutral?"

So witty, so original, so irrelevant.
I don't get that argument. Your bathroom at home isn't open to members of the public, you're not sharing with strangers. How is that a reason for gender neutral toilets?!
 
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I don’t know if she’s still a thing, but I was in a bookshop this morning and I spotted a pile of her books under a table, pushed to the back and had a good chortle to myself! Hopefully symbolic of her relevance.
Yeah I had a flick thru that once in waterstones while waiting for a friend in town. Really woolly neomarxist postmodernist claptrap that might've sold ok in 2017 but has zero relevance in 2025 or whenever it came out.

The moral of the tale of Ash Sarkar (and others like her, that SuperStanSki person, Otto English etc) is that the ability to come up with zippy zingers on Twitter does not make you an intellectual whose views have any originality or worth.

At least she didn't go down the Owen Jones route (get progressively more bitter, madder and Nazi whilst physically shrivelling up like Smeagol's transition to Golum) so there's that, I guess.
 
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What I have noticed in current year is that everyone seems to be obsessed with appealing to authority, like rushing to teacher (ie police, law courts) whenever hurty words are said.

When I were a lass 😉 we would never dream of doing that for stuff we could sort out ourselves. I don’t know why the change has happened - whether young people are getting more authoritarian minded (the cancellation trend would also seem to support this), or whether it’s a class thing, and the urban middle class who make up a lot of the discourse on this topic, just really, really enjoying sicc’ing their lawyers on people
There seems to be some collective narcissism where this subsection of society believes that the whole world should rearrange itself around their ideals or their discomfort.

Believe whatever you want about the world and yourself, and I'll defend your right to believe it, whether that be Christianity or Islam or that the earth is flat or that men magically become women just because they announce it. Freedom of thought and the convergence of different beliefs is central to a democracy. But that's not enough for these people. We must believe the thing they believe, openly, otherwise we're bigots.

It's so individualistic too, like there's a generation of people who have never heard the word no, and think that they alone are the arbiter of acceptability and what is the "right side of history".


The post on FB is full of the "What's the problem, you're bathroom at home is gender neutral?"

So witty, so original, so irrelevant.
Yeah coz my bathroom at home is full of strange men who get a boner from listening to women piss.

I bleeping hate unisex toilets. I don't want to piss with men, they're disgusting, I don't want to stand in a puddle of man piss, I don't want to see a man pissing with the door open, I don't want to share any personal space with basically any man, even the ones I like.

The one I've chosen as a partner is one of the cleanest men I've ever met and I can just about tolerate him.
 
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Believe whatever you want about the world and yourself, and I'll defend your right to believe it, whether that be Christianity or Islam or that the earth is flat or that men magically become women just because they announce it. Freedom of thought and the convergence of different beliefs is central to a democracy. But that's not enough for these people. We must believe the thing they believe, openly, otherwise we're bigots.
I hear that but I think you're understating it, because speaking as a practising Orthodox Christian here, I wouldn't want to live in a country where the government and judiciary were run on theocratic Orthodox lines. And I don't think anyone in Britain has thought that was a good idea since 1829 (although actually the separation of Church and State began a lot earlier with that mad large fucker Henry VIII. Britain is an incredibly forward-thinking nation and always has been.)

I wouldn't want someone to go to prison because they had a different view than me on the Nicene Creed or transubstantiation. But that's exactly what trans people were demanding, because if we accept that trans is a cult, then they actually wanted people to face legal censure or punishment for disbelieving or questioning the trans creed, which is a magical creed whereby words have power to speak things into existence.

So actually it's not about freedom of belief, which, bleepin hell, believe anything you like. (In fact I've even heard that there are some crazy people out there who actually believe Zack Polanski is a politician). It's like, don't make your dumb belief in genderism something from which heresy can get punished in law.
 
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