Caroline Noakes tells women: you shouldn't even be asking these questions
She also thinks that women comprise of two categories: natal women and men like Eddie Izzard who enjoy ‘girl mode’.
The Mumsnet thread is worth reading, more for the questions than the answers.
This was my one.
I am new here and I haven't always thought positively of Glinner. My instincts were that trans people needed kindness and I took the easy route of thinking of him as a baffling example of someone who was once widely admired but who spiralled into insanity. I was wrong.
I'm sorry Graham.
I cannot keep pretending not to understand what I do in fact understand. I wanted to learn about the experience of transwomen. I lurked on forums like r/translater (a subreddit for older transitioners) and yet the more I read the more it felt like these were men masquerading as women. There was the comment from someone who regretted their decision to live as a "woman" because they felt that they could no longer act like a promiscuous gay man. There was the person who wrote about finding the courage to go outside dressed in women's clothing but who soon revealed that he did it because he found it sexually gratifying. It was highly sexualised and it felt less like a place I could learn and more of a wanker's realm for those who like their "women" with a little extra.
More and more I found—and this is an unfortunate term given scientific research into the microbiomes of neovaginas—that these "women" just weren't passing the smell test. I was lost in an uncanny valley. It's not that I think women unique and delicate creatures, or that I believe you are not capable of acting with cruelty but two decades and more online has shown me that those angrily calling others "c***s" and making threats of violence are invariably not women.
And then I see this "discussion" on Mumsnet and it has the trifecta: evasive answers, heavy moderation and most infuriatingly, maddening condescension. Even a chuckleheaded moron like me has read enough to know that women often feel like their anger is invalidated and that they get told to play by rules that don't apply to others. I have just witnessed it first hand and from two other women too! Be kind?! I'm afraid at that point my patience evaporated like piss off a hot griddle and I had to log off. I don't know how you all put up with it.
What an absolute traitor she is to women ,she and other women like her who are happy to sacrifice women's rights and safety to please predatory men.In addition to that ,what this ideology is doing to children is utterly appalling and unforgivable. Shame on all women.like this. However ,watching speaker's corner on Sunday and the Newport protests yesterday ,both organised by Kellie Jay ,cheered me up no end. Women definitely won't wheesht !!