Defiantly Alice

Alice - she/her. Northerner in Scotland, software dev. Big fan of worldbuilding and cars going fast.

[Sacha Coward @sacha_coward]

Cool cool cool I'll just tell my 12 year-old self to calm down and stop crying himself to sleep at night.

Turns out I only turned gay at 18, prior to that I was a happy blank heterosexual slate. Phew. I'm sure younger me would feel super supported...

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@Ferocactusemory Do not pretend to me that you simply have concern for women and children, when all the world can see your account is utterly obsessed with constantly replying negatively to anything you see about trans people in particular. Dozens of times a day! Have you no *life*?

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

The last time the media hounded a trans woman for daring to transition as a teacher, she ended up committing suicide from the stress and the coroner slammed them for it. It's fucking disgusting that people like you still want to make their lives harder.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

A headteacher wrote to parents to tell them Mr X would now be known as Miss X. I've seen the letter.

The letter said 'Miss X' had already spoken to pupils about his pronouns. It also praised his courage and warned that unkindness towards him would not be tolerated.

And, basically, told families that talking openly about it would be disrespectful to the teacher involved.

Here are some of the safeguarding questions I’ve put to the school in my 'right of reply' request (heavily redacted to protect identities):

- Should a male teacher be telling young children he identifies as a woman and asking them to call him ‘Miss’?
- Were parents informed about his 'pronoun talk' beforehand? Could they ask for their child to sit out if they felt the subject was unsuitable?
- If pupils have been told a male teacher is a woman, what safeguarding implications did the school consider?
- Does the teacher use any female-only facilities? Do his duties involve supervising girls in toilets or changing rooms, including when they go swimming?
- Could a child be disciplined for saying the teacher is male or declining to call him ‘Miss’?

Then there’s the question of what happens when parents or staff raise concerns. Will the school take their gender-critical beliefs seriously or will they be told they’re discriminating against the teacher?

Given the person who highlighted this to me asked to remain anonymous, it doesn't look promising.

I’ll wait to hear what the school has to say. But parents shouldn’t need a journalist to find out what their children were told in class, what they were expected to say in response, or how the school would handle it if they disagreed.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@Ferocactusemory Nonsense. It is no harder to explain what a trans person is to a child than it is to explain why their friend has two fathers.

Trans people used transitioned sex spaces for years without great issue until extreme views like yours infected those with the power to stop them.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@LoudBonnet @toolongdead Excuse me? You're 'not going to disagree' with the idea that cross dressing should be re-criminalised?

You know, once upon a time I thought you were wrong but at least had the occasional sound thinking. To read this, I just think you've been fully overtaken by bigotry.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@TungusBusko ♥️

Ah I'm also mostly just a lurker now; a group chat brings me back now and then but beyond that I was only here because I saw your insta story

[sh^i 🪙🎉🥀 @GoodnightMyLxve]

You think a coffee shop, a business that gets most of its traffic in the early morning of the standard work day when teenagers or college students are in class, is a job specifically designed to be done by teenagers or college students?

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

@breadandposes On the bright side, that is about twice as much as we need for total human consumption.

Unfortunately, we also feed about 12 million tonnes to animals, so that's quite a shortfall.

[Sinko (Gene Belcher’s #1 Fan) @HeyItsSinko64]

“Walkable city” means you’re within a safe & reasonable proximity to necessary things like public parks, schools, libraries, grocery stores, etc., and do not necessarily require your own personal vehicle to manage daily life it doesn’t mean cars are illegal and nobody can drive.

[November @postoctobrist]

weird how many men who insist to the point of obsession that trans women are dangers to women suddenly find love and forgiveness in their heart when another man is a danger to women

[Bird @MattAllanBird]

"if you are filming something that is clearly dangerous and illegal" We're discussing definitions of illegality! Illegal isn't some descriptor you can slap on to an act outside of how you've legislated for it?! How is the circularity of this argument not apparent?

[bread and poses @breadandposes]

This is the part I object to the most I think. This blasé notion that an industry should simply risk years of imprisonment in order to sense check the law you wrote. This is people's lives!

[PeterShoreite @PeterShoreite]

Now compare that to the ones that have remained private.

This post is purposely misleading.

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

This post's language is so telling. All of these laws and referendums are taking trans kids out of sports. About removing rights that trans kids have always had.

But somehow it's made out to be that the left is putting them in sports for the very first time.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

In the UK for example:
- NHS care for trans people had majority support until the media onslaught, now it doesn't even have plurality.
- Same for access to single sex spaces
We've lost the latter until it's reversed and now everyone acts like it was never there. It's nonsense.

[Defiantly Alice @MechaniVal]

Once again, 'it's never going to happen' says a very confident person who is apparently completely unaware that it was happening until the right decided trans people were their next punch bag. See also: many other things that people aren't aware of until a wave of negative media.

[constans @constans]

I don’t know how to explain this to people, but sports is really a big deal and having transgender girls in girls’ sports is never going to happen and there’s no argument you can come up with that will make it happen. You don’t understand this because you don’t understand this

[zinā' warrior princess @melifonos]

(1) kids' sports are a "big deal" for kids' social development specifically & exclusively (2) we were broadly fine with this less than a decade ago & (3) like many people in this manufactured debate you don't understand the history of women's sport and association

[junkdog @junkd0g_]

i like how liberals position is that sports are so culturally important that trans women can’t play them but they’re so unimportant that trans women shouldn’t care about not playing them

[Mike Oxlong Working Group @SleepyCommunist]

I don’t know how to explain this to people, but marriage is really a big deal and having same sex marriage is never going to happen and there’s no argument you can come up with that will make it happen. You don’t understand this because you don’t understand this