Absolute Bobbins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Chewing the fat on women's rights.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

The fact that some parents mistreat their children in creatively horrible ways - perhaps because they truly think it's the right thing to do, given the ridiculous social narratives they've fallen for - is not a reason to run a medical trial of chemical castration of minors

[spiked @spikedonline]

In the Netherlands, you can’t have sex til 16, get married til 18 and are advised not to use social media til you’re 15. And yet, Sophie Hermans, a girl under 12, was granted her request for euthanasia. This is horrifying, says Kevin Yuill
https://t.co/wqMiYpbB9Q

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

The fact that staff at the Tavistock joked that “there would be no gay people left” should be all the evidence you need as to why gay conversion therapy and “trans conversion therapy” are two very different topics.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

The UK government is about to pass the most anti-gay legislation in over a century.

Labour’s “conversation practices bill” is gay conversion therapy by stealth.

My latest for @unherd.

https://t.co/p2jmprUBk1

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

UK Government: "We're going to give kids puberty blockers so they have time to question their 'gender identity'."

Also UK Government: "We're going to make it illegal to cause people to question their 'gender identity'."

[Luke LRPS @LukeLRPS]

When I was 6 years old I realised I was supposed to be born a girl. This belief lasted until I was about 10 or 11. Lots of gay boys experience this. Of course, it turned out just to be my misunderstanding my future homosexuality.

If this bill were law today, and as a 6 year old I expressed to my parents (or anyone) the “realisation” that I was a girl in the wrong body, and if in response they CORRECTLY suggested “that’s just you misunderstanding your future homosexuality” and didn’t affirm my simplistic childish belief, their actions would be illegal. The test being my distress at the conversation (a conversation I most likely wouldn’t understand at 6).

This bill is a homophobic hellscape. It’s just awful.
How can its proponents not see the problem? exact parents they want

[Róisín Murphy @roisinmurphy]

My heart breaks for lesbians. There were never large numbers of exclusively same-sex attracted women. Now they are being dismantled. Young girls are transitioning before they get the chance to explore their sexuality, and men are demanding access to every space, intimate or otherwise. A fragile culture built by one of the most marginalised and misunderstood groups is dying, and very few care.

And before anyone comes here to tell me “lesbians won’t save your career,” again, I know.

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Yes. Look at the recent BBC series ‘Mother of All Cons’ for an example. We condemn parents who convince their children they have cancer or disease. WHY WHY WHY don’t we do the same when they convince their children they are the wrong sex?!?

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

The next Prime Minister’s new chief of staff who was instrumental in bringing in Stonewall law into the BBC here

[Anna @knalltueten_ag1]

Mein Mann und meine Söhne sind wertvoller als ein Smartphone, so wertvoll wie ein Tablet.

Um sie vor wolllüstigen Blicken anderer Frauen und Mädchen zu schützen und unsere Familienehre zu bewahren, haben wir, also ich, entschieden, dass sie sich nun immer bedecken müssen.

Respektiert das.

[Absolute Bobbins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @AngelaBruce90]

@TrisOsborneMP @heinz_kiosk @DanniBrener @jo_bartosch Is someone not transgender unless they have transitioned? Be sure to get your definitions correct. This is vital when writing laws.

[Absolute Bobbins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @AngelaBruce90]

@TrisOsborneMP @heinz_kiosk @DanniBrener @jo_bartosch When you say trans do you mean gender reassignment? I.e. transition? Because they are not the same thing.

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

Please listen to those gays and lesbians who ***did*** get sucked into thinking they were ‘trans’ and were medically harmed by it

They’re victims of a unique brand of homophobia and as an MP and homosexual you can’t simply dismiss their existence or lived experience with “Well it didn’t happen to me and others so it doesn’t matter”

[Absolute Bobbins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @AngelaBruce90]

@TrisOsborneMP @JournalistJill @Jebadoo2 @radicalsnake_ @UKLabour @LGBTLabour Yes you can. This is why people detransition

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

This is so insulting. Gay men have been chemically castrated and had electrodes attached to their testicles. Lesbians have been “correctively raped”

But what this clown really cares about is the serious plight of people who don’t fancy a shag and is apparently an important issue

[Absolute Bobbins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @AngelaBruce90]

@TrisOsborneMP @lwhb__ @JoshuaFountn @alexbloodfire @UKLabour @LGBTLabour Will you be raising our questions and concerns in parliament then?

[Absolute Bobbins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @AngelaBruce90]

@TrisOsborneMP @lwhb__ @JoshuaFountn @alexbloodfire @UKLabour @LGBTLabour So this law assumes gender identity is innate? When was this proven and how? Does the law define gender identity? What if the parent doesn't believe in gender identity? Are the conversations arising from that illegal?

[Benonwine @benonwine]

This is the shocking moment an 80-year-old woman was deliberately blocked on the stairs at a Tube station by a man who refused to move, despite her clearly needing the handrail for support.

The woman calmly explained that she wanted to get up the stairs, but instead of showing basic decency, the man continued filming and told her not to touch him. It was obvious as well she needed to hold on to the handrail for support as well which makes it even more disgusting behaviour from this cretin.

When he smugly told her to “go round,” she replied: “I can’t.”

He snapped back: “You can, you’ve got legs.”

When she told him she was 80 years old, his cold response was simply: “So?”

Just let that sink in.

What has happened to basic manners, respect, and common decency in this country?

There was once a time when people were taught to respect their elders, help those less able, and show simple courtesy without hesitation.

Now you have to ask, have we lost that completely.

What’s your reaction to this story?

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

1/ In a criminal trial a jury can ask questions by sending notes to the Judge. Here are 10 jury notes that would derail a Conversion Practices trial:

"I am gender critical and do not believe in transgender identity which is just really gender identity, can I sit on this case?"

[Absolute Bobbins 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @AngelaBruce90]

And our government wants to criminalise anyone who tries to talk someone out of doing the same thing.

[Daisy @DaisyIsNotHere]

8 years ago today, I voluntarily had my breasts sliced off. The worst, most evil thing I have ever done. I remember my grandmother called me crying the night before begging me not to go through with it. She asked me, “has your heart turned to stone?” It had. I did it anyway. I do not share my story to try to evade responsibility or blame others. I did it. Dr. Alison Shore just held the knife. I was encouraged by peers and professionals, but at the end of the day, it’s my fault. I am the reason why my breasts are gone forever. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

I’m 5 weeks post breast reconstruction, but I still won’t be able to feed any future babies. And as I get used to these new “breasts,” I remember how my original ones felt. It’s not the same at all. Let my story be a cautionary tale to all trans-identified people. All of you are potential future detransitioner, and while there is life after detransition, dealing with the irreversible consequences is nothing short of devastating. It’s been 8 years and I still curse my past self for making this horrible, selfish, downright stupid decision.