The whole trans debate is something I went down the rabbit hole about on mumsnet years ago. I love JK Rowling and the shit she has had thrown in her direction this last few years is disgusting. SHE is actually "stunning and brave", not the people attacking her.
Language matters, sex matters. No man will ever have a proper period, deliver a child, have a miscarriage etc etc. Like said up the thread, if an adult wishes to pay for hormones and surgery to change their bodies into something else, so be it. But their sex says the same. Gender is a social construct. Gender ideology is so dangerous and damaging, plays into stereotypes. You like football. You must be a boy. You like glitter. You are a girl. Giving drugs (cross sex hormones and puberty blockers) to children/teenagers is abhorrent and often leads to infertility.
There are some who have genuine body dysmorphia but most transwomen now are AGP males making the rest of us partake in their fetish. I think the world of sport is waking up to this, but some disciplines are still fully supportive of transwomen competing against women, which is both massively unfair and dangerous.
I'm no right winger ( I don't know that posie is RW but I'm actually not that big a fan of hers, she's a bit too aggressive), but it's only the Tories who haven't drank the cool aid over the water. Sunak has actually been very supportive of women to his credit. The southern parties are all very much TWAW unfortunately, despite the fact that MOST people don't believe this. People say "be kind". Fuck kindness. Be real. Be honest. Woman is not a feeling. I could wear a men's suit, y fronts, cut my hair short, grow a tache (might take a while, but not as long as I'd like), have my breasts removed, full hysterectomy and call myself Harry, but I'd still be female.
Very few heterosexual women are gonna be willingly entering a relationship with a transman. No doubt the number of heterosexual men who would be willing to shag a transwoman is vanishingly small, yet lesbians are being lambasted for being transphobic genital fetishists for not having sex with these 'lesbian' transwomen.
I got into a debate a couple of years ago with my (sometimes very dim) sister. Her friend has a young nephew who is trans. She was like "but if you seen this child, you'd understand. They just were born in the wrong body.. be kind etc etc etc"...
Last year the topic came up again around another relative and I said "don't be asking her, she fully believes we should just be kind" and she shook her head. No longer thinks he's trans as there were now 14 kids in his year saying the same thing.
My 11 yo niece was talking about what school she might go to next year and I said a certain school was all girls. "No, there's a boy there too. I think they are trans". Kids are being led to believe that people can change sex. It's actual madness.
This is a very disjointed ranty post. Apologies. But there's so much to say and all of it makes me cross.
I joke!!
I avoided this thread all day yesterday because I was convinced it would be people tearing into the Let Women Speak crowd. I wasn't brave enough to attend probably as I'm not not on board with all that PP says and how it is said, but am completely shocked at how things are playing out these days. A huge group of people - including women - screaming abuse at women sharing their very real experiences and speaking truth about what a woman is. I'm so encouraged to see how the thread progressed through yesterday. On twitter it feels like it can't be reasoned with otherwise you're transphobic.
if he wanted to transition he’d be doing it as a divorcee. 
She always looked totally uncomfortable in the girls uniform. I’m sure if we all think hard enough we could think of someone similar. I’d imagine if she was born in a different time she probably would’ve identified as male and eventually transitioned. 
Newsflash Arlene, the UK hates the DUP. So does the King 
