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Jan 17, 2022·edited Jan 17, 2022Liked by JL

Ugh....so much ugh I scarce know what to single out for comment. I am still at a loss as to how anyone can think it is ok for paedophiles and sexual predators to be treated with more respect than their current or potential victims.

As for the barbershop debarcle - how fragile these egos are! How does explaining that they can't cut your hair get extrapolated to: “I felt disgusted being treated like I didn’t even matter. I felt so bad and ashamed of my body. Due to me being transgender, being called a woman is very hurtful and disrespectful. It would be good to put a highlight on this issue due to there being so many people who are scared to go outside"?

How is this anything to do with being scared to go outside?! Rampant barbers everywhere refusing to cut womens hair! A vertiable plague of them! Also don't transfer your own internal disgust of yourself onto other people just because they won't validate the lies you tell yourself to manage your own self disgust!

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The Press and Judiciary using the wrong sex for rapists and nonces has to be the epitome of misogyny.

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This is all so depressing. It's a tsunami. It makes me feel utterly helpless, given the way that so many of our institutions (police, prisons, education, press) are utterly captured.

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What a delightful story from Kimberley Shappley; she couldn't spank the gay out of little Joseph, so she put him in a dress and got herself a heterosexual daughter instead. Bless ma gendered soul if that ain't a miracle right there.

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It must be so fucking difficult and depressing being a young woman now with all this enforced gender woo bollocks going on. I have my days where I feel like screaming because I'm so fucking sick of it all, but my close friends (mostly) know I'm GC (only a few outliers I'm not sure about sharing with yet), my partner is GC, my family are, I can talk about this stuff with them (as well as you fucking legends and most of Mumsnet). And I had a good number of years where it felt like we were making *some* progress, or at least didn't have this tsunami of genderwoo bullshit and society-level gaslighting going on. I want to help young women dealing with this bullshit, and also detransitioners and desisters. Need to think about how I can do this.

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Thanks ,JL. All horrific stories but I find the story of the little boy ,Kai ,particularly troubling. Thanks to his homophobic mother ,he appears to have lost any chance of growing up as either a Gay or a straight man !! Furthermore ,what 18 month old baby can signal that he or she is Gay ,never mind trans !! So his future now is 1) puberty blockers ,2) cross sex hormones and 3) surgical castration / mutilation with very unpredictable results !! Poor child and shame on his mother!! There's absolutely nothing Christian about her actions .👎👎👎👎

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It's academic that Munroe Bergdorf may be homophobic or racist or dropped from the NSPCC.

Bergdorf could have invented penicillin or cured cancer, he could be the kindest, sweetest person in the world.

What's simply relevant and simply ridiculous is that a man is the cover star of the 50th Anniversary edition of Cosmopolitan.

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A truly disheartening litany of war injuries. A war on women, children, teens, reality ...

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Trying not to lose heart -- your response lifted my spirits. Thank you!

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Do you reckon maybe - just maybe - 'Kai' is gay and his "devoutly Christian Republican mother" might be, erm, anti-gay?

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I live in Colchester.. I’m so sickened by that contemptible runt and completely disgusted by the asinine reporting - is it wrong of me to wish Boudica could pay another visit to Camulodunum?

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Why have a gay son when you can have a straight daughter, wot wot?

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Unpopular opinion: I'm with James on the haircut. No reason the barbers couldn't have given her a man's haircut if that's what she wanted.

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