Cue shocked gasp
A week ago.
Bev Jackson: Now there are people who believe that they were born in the wrong body. We personally don’t believe that anybody can be born in the wrong body –
Benjamin Butterworth: Hunhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Bev Jackson: ……You find that shocking – but we don’t believe that someone can –
Benjamin Butterworth: I find that bigotry!
Today:
Hunhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Fire up the memory holes!
I’d be laughing, if it weren’t so serious.
Mermaids is frantically re-writing its entire mission statement, possibly its entire œuvre, because of this week’s government guidance to schools. What is more important to them? Sticking to the principles they have vehemently espoused up to this week, or being allowed to access schools (and government funding)? Well, given the back-pedalling, they obviously never did believe a word of their own propaganda.
Have to love how so many of the trans cult boosters are just now trying to claim that “born in the wrong body” was ALWAYS a metaphor and how could we “cis” be so stupid to ever think otherwise but, have not heard about the “lady brain in a man’s body” claim much in the last 48 hours. Funny how those “brain studies” that even the authors found speculative and inconclusive have suddenly been relegated to a storage bin – maybe to be brought out again later when the gender woowoo crowd manages to get their new talking points in order.
Quote from Mumsnet:-
“We must remember not to dead-opinion mermaids. Mentioning their previous opinions completely invalidates their current opinion and is literal violence. They might have presented as a charity who thought playing with dollies makes you a girl, but they were always actually a charity that thinks children should play with any toys, just trapped in the body of a charity who thinks playing with dollies makes you a girl, or, er… not trapped in that body because that would be dead-opinioning them which would be literal violence…….”
snerk
#3 southwest88
“Trans women never threatened gender critical feminists with violence!” *examples*
“Oh sure but they weren’t meant literally, none of them were explicit” *examples of explicit threats*
“Well that rhetoric is bad, but trans people don’t actually commit violence” *examples of physical violence*
“Okay but it’s too rare to be a problem worth talking about.”
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“Trans people never claimed to literally be the sex matching their chosen gender!” *examples*
“…”
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“Trans women don’t have a physical advantage in sport!” *scientific citations*
“If that were true, trans women would be winning events.” *examples*
“Okay but that’s not frequent enough that it is a problem worth discussing” plus “Yeah but they haven’t won any Olympic medals, so those smaller events don’t count.”
***
etc.
I guess The Guardian didn’t have time to revise this review that crossed my feed today: “Little Girl review – tender film about a girl born in a boy’s body.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/26/little-girl-review-documentary-sasha-sebastien-lifshitz
Hahaha I was JUST about to share a tweet about that.