Women of my vintage, who lived through the most extraordinary time of social change - for women & homosexuals & others - are reeling with Patriarchal Regurgitation & ReBranding of sexist stereotypes. WE WON battles about loving who we wanted, about living lives outside of the box - the roles & rules & expectations of men & women, "assigned at birth!" We say to the next generations - Enjoy the Legacy of Liberation we won for you!! No need for shame No need for destructive medicalising of "identity" No need for strife making & coercion Just STEP INTO THE SPACE! Be who you are Become your most authentic self - in your own way and time, over time! Divest from the political arena of Trans Ideology (It's Patriarchy in disguise!) AND, show some respect for the older women who are being bashed, trashed & smashed for that Cowardly Old World!

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #ColourBlueWeek

This woman is MAGNIFICENT!!!

Go, Girls! 💪♥️

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Seems to me that Men are drunk on the NEWLY MINTED Misogyny Free Passes to Dominate, Control & Humiliate Women. Feminism is an affront to them & their perceived POWER! TRANS is the perfect F><K YOU! to Women & Children. How DARE we say NO! to them, refuse ACCESS to them! So they construct this Trans Trojan Horse to smash every single border, boundary, barrier & barricade. Their Institutional Power structures ratify every sexual indulgence, and makes sure that ACCESS to us is normalised, socially reinforced & legally upheld. ...and the Boyz cannot get enough of the vindictiveness!

*Always* check the stalls before your kids use the bathroom. Don’t worry about hurting people’s feelings — and don’t think that dressing like a woman makes a man any less dangerous. Those men are more likely to be predatory, not less likely. In this day and age, you can’t be too careful where your kids’ safety is concerned. Don’t leave your kids alone in a bathroom with a potential predator — and don’t forget that every strange man is a potential predator, especially a man in a dress.

Islam is obsessed with sex. It’s the main focus of the entire religion. Oh, they claim it’s about obedience to Allah, but why are they obedient? Because of the promise of sex. It’s both the ultimate reward for the virtuous Muslim, and the way that Muslim leaders keep control over the faithful. The one huge promise of the Muslim faith is that believers will get laid in Paradise; if they can get laid here on Earth, then what’s the point of being Muslim? This is why women’s sexuality is so strictly controlled: so that women and women’s bodies will continue to serve as motivation for the Muslim faithful. If Muslim society allowed casual sex, no one would be interested in blowing themselves up for that 72 virgin reward. All that fanaticism they use to their advantage would wither and 10 die if the fanatics in question weren’t convinced (a) that they’re going to an orgy when they die, and (b) going to an orgy while alive would damn them to Hell. None of them ever seem to wonder about the contradiction.

You haven't seen what "trans woman" means unless you've seen the Facebook, Flickr and p*rn communities. No PhD in Gender Studies will discuss this - or if they do, they will call it an expression of a repressed self - but some of us still have eyes and working brains

When you say someone has a right, ask what corresponding duty that right creates -- and who is expected to bear the obligation. Trans people have the same ordinary rights as everyone else: to safety, liberty, employment, housing, political participation, and protection from unlawful discrimination. Those rights principally require other people not to harm or unjustly discriminate against them. They are the same rights as everyone else: there is a mutual agreement to uphold and fulfill the rights of everyone as a provisional concession for your righ to the same. But if a male person is said to have a right to be recognized as a woman, what exactly are women obligated to do to fulfill that right? Are women obliged to regard him as the same sex as them and other women? To change their language and how they refer to themselves and other women? To include men in female-only spaces, associations, statistics, services, or sports? To surrender boundaries they would otherwise have the right to maintain against men? A man's claim that he has a right to be a woman is also a claim of being entitled to override other people's identities, language, conduct, boundaries, institutions, and rights. So “trans rights are human rights” does not resolve the dispute. Of course transgender people have human rights. The disputed question is which additional claims follow from gender identity, against whom those claims operate, and what happens when fulfilling "trans rights" requires someone else to surrender their rights, legitimate self-interest and personal boundaries. A right cannot be established merely by naming the desired outcome a right. A man's desire to be a woman does not establish any right, nor does it esta lish any obligation on women to accomodate that desire. For any human rights movement to succeed you need to specify what those rights are, identify the corresponding duties of other people to fulfill those rights, identify who in society bears the duty to fulfill those rights and then justify why they are obligated to bear that obligation. None of that has been done to date. I suspect it's because everyone knows the answers to these questions, and the answers point to a very one-sided, male supremacist, male-centered perspectice that ignores the human rights of women. The lack of articulation of their position makes me think trans rights activists are all very aware of the asymmetry of power, the unjust burden on women, and the sexism inherent in "trans rights" -- they are all just manipulative narcissists and misogynists.

"whadda bout Men's Clubs being invaded ?!?!?"

(apparently, we should not blame others, but be a better person.) You are speaking with a feminist, who understands the political/public patterning at work in the world. What was felt "personally" by women kept us in a system which told us, and still does, that we are too much & not enough and unless we fit into stereotypes of female, then we are broken, maladapted, wrong. Psychiatry & pharmaceutical medications can FIX us - to FIT in. The world is organised & maintained around men as central/elevated/superior human. If you don't recognise this, then you are happily living in another world from women. Half a century of feminism and men still don't want to face the imbalances. I wonder why?

If your internal sense of identity requires constant external validation it is not a "true" internal identity. The need for validation is instead an external signifier of internal confusion.

Letting men identify as women follows the same principle as letting a fox identify as a chicken. You do the math.

Thank you for your kindness, understanding & compassion - oh! looks like you've run out! Nevermind, there's plenty to compassion mine from unsuspecting soft hearts! It's TRA currency!

One of the many nasty, vindictive, self-righteous, putrid, messages I received on a post about the estrangement in my family because I won't join the cult of trans #BeCruelMob #NarcissistsMob

EXHIBIT A : nasty misogynistic trans culture

The people who are struggling with their ANIMA/ANIMUS (research Carl Jung) are being used by a patriarchal agenda to demolish the sovereignty & dignity & safety of women & children. When the job is done, this group of people will be just as expendable as us. You are being played.