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Deeply left wing. Deeply invested in equality. Deeply disturbed that identity politics is handing the advantage to right wing populism. May ask you to explain.

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Left wing politics is ostensibly concerned with the equal distribution of wealth - the root of most of our problems can be found here. Everything else is secondary. That doesn't mean everything else isn't important, but it isn't as important. The left has lost its way.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney Good. Feel better for that, do you?

So anyone with a penis who declares they are a woman is a trans woman and fuck off if you don't agree. Is that where we are at?

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@RealDJCthulhu @SlaaneshGf @Sandwich247 @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney I am not the arbiter. It's different.

I can tell you what I think transitioned means. Doesn't mean I own it. Happy to be corrected if I am wrong.

Someone who has undergone gender reassignment surgery. Is that not right?

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney I'm off now. I'm not what you say I am. I am just trying to get a better understanding of this. My opinions are fluid. I am veering back and forth, and I just want to get it right.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney I knew a 75 year old transitioned woman ten years ago. She had had a very difficult life. She transitioned to escape from her life, not because she identified as a woman. She was lovely, but broken.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney Well I can't clearly, but you can't deny that the internet is a very influential part of the conversation.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney See the thing is, I am aware that a part of this debate is about whether women will still be safe if they share safe spaces and I know that for the most part they will. But that's not all it is about.

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@SlaaneshGf @RealDJCthulhu @Sandwich247 @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney I'm not sure quite how transphobic you think I am, but transitioned women are women and have all the rights any woman has. Except maybe with sports, but let's not go there huh?

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney There's this thing called the internet where much of this takes place.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney I'll look into that.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney I wasn't questioning it. You're super defensive right now. Might be time for me to fuck off. This has been enlightening, believe me.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney So you don't think this is happening and I am wrong?

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@SlaaneshGf @RealDJCthulhu @Sandwich247 @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney It's not need. It's want. You have another option.

Honestly, I'm not telling you that you should take it, just that it is there.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney How were they consulted?

Look. If you want to suggest that any woman who is not comfortable with sharing safe spaces is by definition transphobic then we are done here.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney Yes I do. You calling me something doesn't make me that thing.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney If you are transitioned then you are a woman and should have any right that any other women does.

I am suggesting that a small but very vocal group of people are exploiting the trans movement for their own selfish reasons.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney How am I abusing you? From the woman who told me to fuck off and called me a dickhead.

TERFs abusing you is appalling. I don't defend that.

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@LovecraftLuci @RealDJCthulhu @Xather2 @JessRobynLoney By trans women, do you mean women that have transitioned?