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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (3 children)

banning puberty blockers for trans kids but allowing cis kids (who have been using them for like four decades without harm) on the start of pride is pretty absurd.

it also shows that it's not actually about protecting kids but about impose section 28.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This is evil. This will lead to deaths of children. Fuck everyone involved. I wish there was a hell for TERFs to go to.

[–] jeffw 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Somehow I don’t think many Tories are TERFs

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (77 children)

Unless someone is against trans people existing, is there any merit to doing this? Why make a person go through puberty twice just because they're "too young" to decide?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trans people have been chosen as the current boogeyman of the UK for them to expiate for their own failings as a country, and for the consecutive disasters provoked by the Tories. It's a sleight of hand that allows them to distract the public with a fear without basis on reality in order to avoid taking responsibility of their own failures.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I thought it was the people who come on boats!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Where I live, immigrants are the new boogeymen too. But the Conservatives have a big market in immigrants too, so when "other immigrants, not YOU immigrants" doesn't work, I guess that's what trans people are for! Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

because they know starmer's labour will continue to go along with it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Remember when they said they werent coming for our kids? I remember. Ill remember for next time too.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

WTAF is happening right now.

Sir? SIR! Stop the train, I demand to get off at once!

[–] Everythingispenguins 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As you step off the train you are met with the void. As the last glimpse of the train disappears you realized you are doomed to wander the void forever.

(I honestly don't really know were this comment is going. It just sounded funny in my head.)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

TERF island is at it again, huh?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

All this time everyone thought we loved tea, turns out it was actually just TE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

They generally refer to themselves as "gender-critical feminists".

The first part "trans-exclusionary" is pretty self-explanatory. "Radical" meaning they believe the whole system needs an overhaul, and mostly comes from the branch of feminism that TERFs/gender-criticals grew out of.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I prefer the term Feminist Appropriating Ridiculous Transphobe (FART)

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[–] jeffw 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trans exclusionary rad fem. It’s a radical feminist that basically believes that your gender assigned at birth is fixed and cannot change

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