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It often seems that TRAs want, no, need violence and death to happen to one of them. Without it, the claim that they are "the most vulnerable" in society doesn't hold water. The drama over the previously unknown Lily Cade's bizarre rantings this week shows that they will latch on to any chance of saying "See, we told you so!"

I can't see them as anything but overly dramatic men badly playing a role of "fearful women", like an exercise at acting school.

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As far as I'm aware, it's generally men who plan and execute mass shootings. Not women. So trans women are fairly safe from TERFs. However, whether we are safe from them is another thing entirely.

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I forgot to mention that I’m doing cartwheels, enjoying Ireland’s Stonewall crumbling! May this be the beginning of the end of gay conversion, the transing of youth (& mass T bullying etc, etc.) worldwide! 👍👏👏👏 ⭐️🍾🎉🎊🎈🤸‍♂️🕺🏼💃

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All I know is that if I was in ACTUAL, literal fear of being literally murdered by specific person(s), in a country smaller than the US, I would NOT be dyeing my hair “Look-At-Me!-Raggedy-Ann Red (IMHO). It is almost as if that man was thoroughly enjoying his self-proclaimed DARVOing “victimhood” as a fetish (Literally). Like, literally. 🤡

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One wonders if there was audits done and if some moolah went astray.

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Statistically speaking, 98% of mass shootings are done by males, so if the TW up there are in fear, they ought to reach out to their fellow men and talk about it.

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Nov 6, 2021Liked by Graham Linehan

Didn't non-binary Mayor of Bangor, Owen Hurcum, in the Nolan Stonewall podcast say something about being murdered, and how upsetting it would be to be misgendered after death? Obsessed with being murdered (not just dying, but being murdered); fantasising about the psychic wound of misgendering.

Some very nasty men, have done a very nasty brainwashing number on young people to make them feel paranoid and alienated, particularly from parents. Many of these young people have pre-existing mental health problems, have experienced trauma and/or are on the autistic spectrum, so take these messages to heart.

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To be Terrified of being Non-Murdered.........wonderful description.

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It is even worse than that. Any organisation who keeps telling its supporters they might be murdered any minute - without any evidence to support that claim - actually and actively harms their supporters. It instills on them fear for their lives, every minute of the hour, every hour of the day. This is grossly detrimental to mental health. It is the same thing as if I threatened someone with murder every day. This causes grave bodily and mental harm and people who do that deliberately should be prosecuted like anyone else who recklessly or deliberately endangers the health of others. And that's atop of calling it what it is: Emotional blackmail. (Admittedly something I react to rather adversely. Biographical stuff. Call it family trauma.)

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He's whinging that he couldn't get free surgeries in Ireland, where we have huge waiting lists for real health emergencies.

"The Irish trans healthcare system is also broken, I was treated like I was less than human, and denied adequate care and referals to needed surgeries. In the midst of this I decided I need to find a safe place to heal and returned to Durham where I have lived since 2015."

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To lose one member of staff but three on one day?

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Don't a lot of AGP's fetishisise over rape and violence because then they must be 'real' women. Particularly since (in Scotland anyway) 2-3 women per week are killed. (Scottish Women's Aid pamphlet)

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It sounds like someone that gets off on the thought of violence being inflicted on themselves. In the safe space of knowing it doesn't happen. Plot for a bad porn movie.

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Very interesting developments! Ireland currently has public consultation open (till Nov 29th) on Equality Acts. One plan is to amend the 'gender' equality ground. Apparently the plan is to include gender identity and gender expression as equality grounds.

This even though the brief public consultation in January 2018 of the 2015 Gender Recognition Act is still under review. The review committee was headed by the then CEO of TENI.

The Irish public are only now becoming aware of the 2015 GRA as some of its consequences are becoming obvious. Plus events and coverage from the UK are a big help.

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Heaven forbid a transwoman would be killed, as, aside from the individual tragedy, it would result in a clamour to overhaul the entire legal and judicial systems.

I think that the constant propagation of the death cult should be called out for what it is. From the goading of children ("if you don't get the blockers/hormones, suicide is just around the corner") to these paranoid schizophrenics afraid to leave their home, it's clearer by the day that their issue is a psychological one, not medical/physical.

Yet anyone suggesting assessment and treatment is pushing conversion therapy!

Cult, cult cult.

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There’s a part of the brain that recognizes faces. And it’s been shown that babies can tell the difference between male and female faces. Even faces of babies.

What is the natural reaction when people encounter a face that falls into neither category?

Well, I don’t think the natural reaction is ever going to be a pleasant one.

Is that nature’s fault then? Is nature transphobic?

Does it even make sense to tilt against this windmill, as they constantly do?

Is it any wonder they want control over children’s education?

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