Caroline & the Lights (she/her)

Life is hard, lets be kind to each other 💕Once or Twice out now: Opinions are my own.

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@AlexandrTheOkay @EastsideChic721 @legaltweetz Anyway, I’m going back to reality again cause today has been a real eye opener, and my mental health is so much netter for coming away from twitter and cutting down on social media in general. Would recommend. Peace and love 🩷

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@AlexandrTheOkay @EastsideChic721 @legaltweetz Today, 2 of the 3 tweets I’ve written today, were blocked from being posted. (1st one was for using the scientific term cis, and 2nd was actually for this tweet about twitter, had to reword it, and it didnt give any reason).

That hasn’t happened to me on any other platform 🫤

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@AlexandrTheOkay @EastsideChic721 @legaltweetz (Ironically this tweet also got flagged for use of a scientific term and may get taken down)

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@legaltweetz Public support is actually increasing from my POV though, I’ve seen people who’ve never been politically involved, start to go to trans rights protests, share awareness on socials and write to their mps etc. These are the same people who rolled their eyes at me in 2019.

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@legaltweetz In any movement, some will use poor tactics, we cannot control others, only ourselves. This is part of the challenge, and one that activists tend to welcome.

I can’t help but think twitter has played a role in all this, other social media platforms I use more aren’t like this.

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@legaltweetz Just came back to twitter after a long break and so sad to see you removed the T from LGBT in your bio, and appear to now be trans exclusionary. I hope your mental health improves, although I’m not sure that exclusion or transphobia is the best way to do so.

[The Pissed Off Lawyer @legaltweetz]

In a world that is constantly trying to tear trans folks down, don’t forget that you’re beautiful for exactly who you are.

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@acnewsitics Literally no issue whatsoever. So confused as to what these terfs do in the toilet and why they are so busy assessing other people. Most people just go in, avoid eye contact, do their business, and leave.

Honestly I care more about girls bitching about me/hearing me poop lol

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@adoggzz @AriDrennen @RepNancyMace Also from majority of womens pov, it just looks like men have a new way of blaming women (transwomen), and avoiding responsibility. So let me set the reocrd straight:

Dear cis Men,

You are still the problem. Not transwomen. You.

Sincerely,
Women

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@adoggzz @AriDrennen @RepNancyMace As a women, could you maybe just protect us from like actual male predators?

I’m not scared of transwomen at all, and never have been. Never met anyone who is either.

The issue is still just men. Your standard masculine straight cis men.

Thanks.

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@17GiaSerafino37 @legaltweetz Anyone who is intolerant of the existence of trans people is a transphobe, it’s not his fault that X actively encourages that behaviour so he has to spend so much time calling out those who fall prey to it

Thanks @legaltweetz for making my feed more bearable, must be so hard 🩷

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@KateBMwriting @Pearcey149 Nope, we should just get on with our lives cos this doesn’t affect us whatsoever*

*unless you have trans friends, in which case, I’m sure you’d just be kind to your friend… but its more likely that you don’t have any trans friends and are making up hypotheticals

[Charlie Martin @GoCharlieM]

Speaking up for Trans Inclusion in Sport on @BBCRadio4 Across the Red Line with Sharron Davies, here’s a link to listen to the whole programme -
🏳️‍⚧️✊🏼
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
🎧 https://t.co/3ff0z3rqn8

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@theoneNIP @KatyMontgomerie But TERFs are the ones magically trying to change people’s sex… If I (who’ve lived my whole life as a woman) took a chromosomes/testosterone test right now and the results said I was a dude (according to GCSE level science), I’d suddenly be changed to a man in terfs eyes…..

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@SimurghSong @bernese02 @KatyMontgomerie Also I say GCSE level, because the “biology” people cite in this topic is just that, biology gets far more complex at degree level, the school curriculum is simplified for kids. Binary thinking is easier for kids to understand.

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@SimurghSong @bernese02 @KatyMontgomerie We all self ID from birth based on genitals, there is no chromosomes/testosterone test at birth nor would there be cause it’s not a medical concern. If I took a test today and my chromosomes or testosterone levels were (by GSCEs science level knowledge) not female, what then?

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@bernese02 @KatyMontgomerie What? I’ve self ID’d by whole life, never tested my chromosomes or hormones (except for health reasons). I’ve just assumed I’m a woman cos of my bits n bobs, but who knows what an actual test would say? This is why terf logic does not make any sense or work in the real world

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@KatyMontgomerie So scary and bizarre.

I have no idea what my chromosomes are, and I know my hormones levels are weird (I have endometriosis, and just started GnRh injections and HRT) If I took a test and didn’t “Pass” as female, does that mean I’d be suddenly classed as a man? 😂 MESSED UP!!

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@jk_rowling (Also banning or putting barriers around hormonal treatments, will affect far more cis women and girls than those who are trans. Menopause, perimenopause, PCOS, POI, PMDD, endometriosis etc. Children can be affected by these conditions too)

[Caroline & the Lights (she/her) @candthelights]

@jk_rowling We cheer on PATIENT LED TREATMENT AND INDIVIDUAL CHOICE.

Transitioning is a long and complex series of consultations, working out what is best for the patient in both the medical professional’s opinion and in the patients.

Stop simplifying it to push your narrative.