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Is Gender Critical the new Pro Life?

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GagaJo Fri 12-Nov-21 16:55:32

I was musing this while playing lego with DGS this afternoon.

Pro life individuals claim to be anti abortion because they want to protect the life of the unborn baby, but resent public spending on the baby once it is born. They're judgemental about single-parents. In the US, they want to deny access to free contraception to women, BUT refuse to hold men accountable for paying child support. Doesn't sound very pro anything to me.

Gender critical individuals claim to 'follow the science' but then refuse to accept any science that shows that human and animal life forms are born in categories other than just male and female. They're critical of other cultures that have accepted alternative gender expressions beyond the binary. While claiming not to be totally anti trans, they want to shut off any access to support or treatment (the hooha about the Tavistock Clinic and Kiera Bell) at a point in a young person's life where it could help them avoid developing the unwanted sexual characteristics of the gender they want to transition from. After all that, they will only accept trans individuals who are 100% post surgery, despite not wanting those individuals to be able to access surgery, hormones or treatment. They also deny the evidence and existence of these individuals historically, prefering to see the visibility of trans as a patriarchal plot to deny cis women their rights.

I'm sceptical. It is a 'damned if you do and damned if you don't' position for trans individuals within the eyes of the gender critical, in my opinion.

Let the battle commence.

Disclaimer
I am a life-long feminist.
I will not be responding to demands and insistence for answers.
I will, however, enter into polite discussion.

Lincslass Thu 18-Nov-21 12:48:16

trisher

Mollygo

Trisher cracked a joke!???

If I mistake me not, trisher was the person who introduced mice into this conversation.
Is this yet another field of expertise?

I realise some peole as they get older allow their minds to close and don't want to know or learn anything new. It's very bad for you. Learning and aquiring information creates new neural pathways which may help to prevent Alzheimers,

Really depends on how you want to improve your mind. Reading stuff on here makes me think you want to force people to know about this, get educated, what a horrible phrase, sorry more interesting and relevant stuff to improve my mind with. Climate change being one of them, after all it comes to pass there won’t be much point in all this, will there.

trisher Thu 18-Nov-21 12:56:02

Chewbacca

^This is only an iternet disucssion forum and we aren't the generation effecting change. We're^ here out of interest, not making political policy.

You're so, so wrong there Gagajo. It's "internet discussion forums" like this one, Mumsnet and many others, who have been quietly discussing these issues for many months; realising that what started off as a minority of people wanting, and deserving inclusivity, has surreptitiously had a completely different anti female and exclusionary agenda. And it's because each of those "internet discussion forums" became aware that it wasn't just them that had concerns as to how this was impacting on natal women, that they joined forces, spoke with a collective voice and campaigned for recognition as to what the majority of women are losing on the alter of a tiny minority men.

I'm grateful, that forums such as this one, have given women a platform to add their voices to the growing disquiet about the erasure of women and that this has now been picked up by the House of Lords and the BBC who are discussing it openly.

We won't wheesht now Gagajo.

Oh the H of L and the BBC possibly two of the most reactionary, white male dominated organisations you can find. Good luck with any equality they propose because they really don't appreciate differences

Chewbacca Thu 18-Nov-21 12:58:10

I can be concerned with more than one thing at a time Lincslass caring about one issue doesn't negate any others Afterall, I AM A WOMAN and I can multitask.

Chewbacca Thu 18-Nov-21 12:59:50

Oh the H of L and the BBC possibly two of the most reactionary, white male dominated organisations you can find. Good luck with any equality they propose because they really don't appreciate differences

Is that it?

Mollygo Thu 18-Nov-21 13:15:24

I’m a woman (adult human female) so I too can multitask. I learn new things both at home and at work. ,
trisher, you need to go back and read the long transcript from Chewbacca to help you understand that mice are not mentioned in the same matters as the rights of adult human females.

Galaxy Thu 18-Nov-21 13:23:42

Gender critical: We are raising concerns about Males in prisons sport etc.
Non gender critical : Women are dangerous too, what you are saying is mean to men.
Gender critical: Some institutions appear to be beginning to debate the issue.
Non gender critical: Those institutions are full of men so are very bad.

trisher Thu 18-Nov-21 13:56:43

Chewbacca

I can be concerned with more than one thing at a time Lincslass caring about one issue doesn't negate any others Afterall, I AM A WOMAN and I can multitask.

You do know that brain research indicates nobody actually multitasks don't you?? blog.rescuetime.com/multitasking/

Doodledog Thu 18-Nov-21 14:08:41

No ideas about what these 'gender signals' you mention are, trisher? Please educate those of us who have no idea what you are on about?

Chewbacca Thu 18-Nov-21 14:10:53

Blooming heck trisher I've seen you clutch as some pretty tenuous straws om the past but that's the thinnest yet.

trisher Thu 18-Nov-21 14:15:17

Chewbacca

Blooming heck trisher I've seen you clutch as some pretty tenuous straws om the past but that's the thinnest yet.

Sorry don't understand that at all. I always believed I could, and did. multitask but looking at what happens in your brain shows that isn't how it works. I think it's interesting I thought others might too but ignore if you want, makes no difference to me.

Mollygo Thu 18-Nov-21 14:20:35

As I am speaking this answer into my phone, I am mopping the kitchen floor and listening for the timer on my soup maker and knowing that TWANW.
I’m sooooo disappointed to know that’s not multitasking. ???
Never mind trisher.

VioletSky Thu 18-Nov-21 14:25:52

TWAW.

Please make no mistake that those of us who agree trans women are women have already won most of the battles for trans inclusion and against trans discrimination.

We will win the war.

It's inevitable.

Soup, mops, words on a screen, will not stop it.

Mollygo Thu 18-Nov-21 14:27:47

TWANW I just quote the truth.
What is it you think you have won? Another of GJ’s playground games.

Galaxy Thu 18-Nov-21 14:28:44

Yes a war, those words say quite a lot.

Doodledog Thu 18-Nov-21 14:35:20

VioletSky

TWAW.

Please make no mistake that those of us who agree trans women are women have already won most of the battles for trans inclusion and against trans discrimination.

We will win the war.

It's inevitable.

Soup, mops, words on a screen, will not stop it.

Tomorrow belongs to me?

You started getting involved in these discussions as someone who was just interested in love and peace and living in harmony, but now you are on about winning battles and wars, and inevitable conquest. That was quick.

GagaJo Thu 18-Nov-21 14:40:57

Because it's progress. It moves forwards inexorably.

Chewbacca Thu 18-Nov-21 14:42:24

You started getting involved in these discussions as someone who was just interested in love and peace and living in harmony, but now you are on about winning battles and wars, and inevitable conquest. That was quick.

Not really Doodledog, some of us knew their real agenda from the beginning and were never taken in by the "we're all trees in the forest and I just want peace for all" guff.

GagaJo Thu 18-Nov-21 14:44:07

Chewbacca

^This is only an iternet disucssion forum and we aren't the generation effecting change. We're^ here out of interest, not making political policy.

You're so, so wrong there Gagajo. It's "internet discussion forums" like this one, Mumsnet and many others, who have been quietly discussing these issues for many months; realising that what started off as a minority of people wanting, and deserving inclusivity, has surreptitiously had a completely different anti female and exclusionary agenda. And it's because each of those "internet discussion forums" became aware that it wasn't just them that had concerns as to how this was impacting on natal women, that they joined forces, spoke with a collective voice and campaigned for recognition as to what the majority of women are losing on the alter of a tiny minority men.

I'm grateful, that forums such as this one, have given women a platform to add their voices to the growing disquiet about the erasure of women and that this has now been picked up by the House of Lords and the BBC who are discussing it openly.

We won't wheesht now Gagajo.

You do realise this movement started well over 20 years ago? So many involved and so much changed long before the chattering classes noticed and started to get involved. The trans movement was there, long before gay rights were firmly in place. Because theses things, feminism, gay rights, the queer movement, trans rights, are all interlinked. They feed each other. It's impossible to separate them as the GC movement is trying to do.

Mollygo Thu 18-Nov-21 14:48:48

GagaJo

Because it's progress. It moves forwards inexorably.

So eventually you’ll recognise the truth that TWANW. That would be real progress for you, but I doubt I’ll see it in my lifetime.
You do realise that all the pontificating you do is doing more harm than good to those trans-people who just wish to live without making hue and cry about it?
No, I don’t suppose we will see that progress from you either.

VioletSky Thu 18-Nov-21 14:50:26

I think it's very interesting that I am somehow a bad person over my use of language.

Chewbacca your comment is violating guidelines.

I am as human as everyone else, I have days where I am more patient or less patient. I have days when life is going well and days when it isn't. I will sometimes respond in the way I am spoken too.

What I do not do is use personal insults, use people's personal negative experiences against them or laugh at them.

If people think badly of me, don't talk to me, we would both be better off.

Galaxy Thu 18-Nov-21 14:56:45

I dont know why people thing progress is inexorable, it's actually much more complex than that, womens rights have improved dramatically in terms of work, etc but there are now new challenges in terms of porn, etc, similar in some ways for gay rights, we have achieved equal.age of consent, marriage etc, but the attacks on lesbians right to be same sex attracted are very similar to what was happening in the 80' s and 90's. Same old same old in many ways. Sometimes what we see as progress is anything but.

Chewbacca Thu 18-Nov-21 15:01:39

use people's personal negative experiences against them or laugh at them.

I've checked back and can see nothing of the sort but, if you feel that guidelines have been breached, you must report it.

VioletSky Thu 18-Nov-21 15:02:43

Galaxy that's a fair point and it can seem that way talking to individuals but also what does keep changing is what is allowable.

There are now often real life consequences for saying discriminatory things online as one example. People can lose their jobs, homes, friends and family members. Platforms are disallowing some talk topics or groups to converge. People are recieveing training in the workplace. Children are being taught acceptance and inclusion. British values have been for a long time, Individual Liberty, Tolerance and Respect.

We are making progress on many fronts and eventually some ideas will just get people nowhere in life.

Chewbacca Thu 18-Nov-21 15:04:36

some ideas like it's possible to change sex?

Mollygo Thu 18-Nov-21 15:04:54

Oh yes, GJ trans rights like being allowed to call lesbians transphobic if they refused sex with TW. I’m sure they’re all working together . . . Not.