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  1. After-Dentist-2480 on

    And that’s what happens when we demonise trans people as a minority group, while our politics emboldens the bully and bigot.

  2. Every woman who isn’t conventionally feminine will now be harassed by people trying to hunt down trans people in public toilets.

    Truly embarrassing how much we’ve devolved as a country.

  3. PetersMapProject on

    Your daily reminder that transphobia hurts everyone, including straight cis people. 

    As a woman at the opposite end of the height spectrum, people make a lot of assumptions about me too – age not gender related – and it sucks because there’s very little you can do about it. 

    This woman has my sympathies. 

  4. This is what people forget when they support all the transphobia and the single sex spaces separation policies that are being pushed.

    Trans Women make up 0.25%~ of the population, vs the rest of cis women being 50%~

    Doing basic math you can easily see that far more cis women will be “accused” of being trans and be harassed and abused due to this.

    Transphobia doesn’t help anyone and it doesn’t protect single sex spaces, if anything it makes them more dangerous and discrimination more likely to occur, and with it, more harassment than there was before.

  5. I was talking about this in a thread yesterday, but a huge amount of the transphobes’ weird beliefs about the bathroom stuff seem to come from their absolute certainty that they can “tell” who is trans with 100% accuracy.

    Why weren’t they worried about transwomen in bathrooms say, ten years ago (before the current anti-trans panic), even though transwomen were definitely quietly using their preferred bathrooms back then, as well? Ah, au contraire mes ami, transwomen must not have been using women’s bathrooms ten years ago, because I, the transphobe, would have been able to *tell* if they were!

  6. Future-Warning-1189 on

    This felt more like an advert for her as a content creator than actually highlighting the glaring issue…

  7. X_Trisarahtops_X on

    I’m 6 ft, female, but also quite broad at the shoulders. I look very feminine in makeup and a dress.

    I’ve been confused for a man plenty of times when I’ve been in a hoodie and baggy jeans.

    I genuinely feel like it’s a matter of time until this is something I come across.

    Hatred and division hurts everyone.

  8. Hyperbolicalpaca on

    And so it begins…

    That thing that we repeatedly said would happen, but were shut down, talked over with “it never will” and “we can always tell” 

    And look, that thing is happening…

  9. Yeah, this is where all this transphobic shit was leading, it’s not just fucking over trans people, it’s fucking over all women. Cheers JK Rowling and friends!

  10. GarageFlower97 on

    Oh look, what everyone says would happen is happening.

    Fucking terfs and this transphobic Labour government are going to fuck us all

  11. Sensitive_Echo5058 on

    “Charlie has also turned her unique physical appearance into a strength. She now charges £600-an-hour to lift men up.”

  12. Sounds about right. The fact is that transpeople are very rare. Estimated in the census as less than 1 in 200, which is [itself likely an overestimate](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3030519849o). So any policing you do is going to “catch” more ciswomen with atypical body types (tall, particularly muscly/athletic etc.) than transpeople just based on probability.

    Anti-trans campaigners have simply invented a new excuse for misogyny, encouraging us all to judge women for not being petite and feminine enough.

  13. Sea-Caterpillar-255 on

    Every time this happens the person making the accusation needs a long prison sentence and the facilities operator needs a fine in the hundreds of millions. If people want to play stupid games, we must provide the stupid prizes to match.

  14. And so it begins, profiling women for not looking a certain way because some people can’t help but demonise a group.

  15. When feminists started seeing convenient allies in religious ultra-conservatives that want to destroy womens suffrage it was only a matter of time.

  16. I sure do hope all of you in this thread rightly saying how terrible this is have the same energy in the instances when the inquisitors get it “right” and subject actual trans people to this abuse and denigration.

    The fact that so many people in the UK are tacitly fine with public gender investigations and harassment, as long as there’s no false positives, is pathetic

  17. >She now charges £600-an-hour to lift men up.

    How does that work? She picks them up once? Multiple times per hour? Holds them up for a full hour?!

    What happens between the …uppies?…oh no, she has grown men saying uppies at her doesn’t she.

    I mean, that’s good money but can’t be good for her back.

  18. Hopefully she can sue for sexual discrimination, harassment, slander and damages to her reputation.

  19. machinehead332 on

    I am surprised this hadn’t happened to me yet tbh 😅, I work in the construction industry so my clothes are typically masculine and often hi-viz stuff covered in muck, grease etc. I’m 5’7 so not tall but not petite either.

    I also have Alopecia so I always wear beanie hats at work… every time I stop at a services to use the loo I have wondered if there’ll be a day someone will try and quiz me. I’d love to see them try 😁

  20. The demonisation of trans women is simply the extreme end of the spectrum where women who in some way deviate from the accepted norms of femininity are victimised.

    It’s not a mistake that taller, larger, hirsute, less “femininely acceptable” looking, -women with the wrong kind of hormonal balance- are “lumped in” with trans women. It’s only a matter of time, if we let these c*nts win, that “unacceptable non-feminine” personality traits will also bring women into the firing line.

    It’s like this in so many, many ways. Be careful who you allow the bigots to victimise. If you don’t fight to defend their victims today, they may come for *you* tomorrow.

  21. What’s worse, trans people being allowed to use the bathroom, or bigots being allowed to attack people for using bathrooms?

  22. Oh wow, the results of hardline gender conformity now targetting any women who isn’t hyperfeminine. Who would’ve thought this would happen /s

  23. This sub had two regular posting TERFs that mostly hung out on threads about trans people, bashing trans women and celebrating the archaic Supreme Court ruling. All in the name of “protecting women”.

    But they’ve been oddly absent for a while.