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HEReticFebruary 23, 2025
Anyone else remember that map a few years back that showed where all the "transphobia" was coming from? The U.K was lit up like a candle. Nowhere else came close, except a pocket of the United States on our Eastern seaboard, right about exactly where I live...
I'd love to see that map updated now. I bet a lot more of it is shining bright now!
Born and raised in TERF island. Left in 1998 and now in US. So I clicked yes, but really don't know what it is like to live in the UK anymore.
I see Rowling as my fellow UK Gen X woman. We grew up with a female head of state and Prime Minister for the longest time and we thought the future was female. Sad what actually happened.
Good point about women being highly visible on the public stage in a way that's never really been true of the US (except when Hillary was running for president).
I am the way I am because I got my lesbian card via mail by a bald Eagle who came down from the heavens, in which she also preached me the good word of America, “tell all men to fuck off”.
Oh man, it never occurred to me that Americans get our wizard mail and pussy passes delivered by bald eagle, but we absolutely do.
Caw! 🦅
lskiFebruary 23, 2025
Yes I am.
Whenever it's referred to as Terf Island I get a little warm glow of pride.
istaraFebruary 23, 2025
I think many/most gender critical British women are likely already served by Mumsnet in terms of having an open forum to discuss these issues.
CattitudeFebruary 23, 2025
Not as open as here. Mumsnet panders too much to TIMs. It allows them to infest the feminism board and until very recently deleted comments that mentioned AGP.
samsdatFebruary 23, 2025
until very recently deleted comments that mentioned AGP.
Did they change that rule? Because it sounds like a tiny gate but it’s actually a floodgate.
CattitudeFebruary 23, 2025
I don't know if they changed it, it wasn't consistent when I was last there a couple of months ago.
istaraFebruary 23, 2025
Really? I did not know that. I thought it was pretty free, so that's disappointing to hear.
CattitudeFebruary 23, 2025
You can't call TIMs that, let alone say that they are all paraphiliacs, and there's a TIM regular who's utterly full of misogynistic shit and the mods just allow him there.
ArtemisfacepalmedFebruary 23, 2025
Born in the UK, raised in the US. Really don’t have much experience in British culture, but every time TRA’s whine about TERF Island I still feel patriotic pride
a_shrubFebruary 23, 2025
No, but they've definitely influenced my word contractions. Instead of saying something like "I haven't seen it" like a proper Canadian, I've started being like "I've not seen it" 'cause I been reading/listening to so much TERF island stuff.
Haworthia_LadyFebruary 23, 2025
In Australia we all have to play pretend online but we’re all raging TERFs IRL, especially outside the trendy parts of some cities.
SeekingcriticalthinkFebruary 24, 2025
really? How do you mean online? Like for official work stuff? When you say IRL do you mean what people really think?
I'm in Australia and I feel like I still have to keep any TERF approaching views quiet or tentative/ plausibly deniable if speaking to people I don't know well/ don't know are TERFs themselves.
CattitudeFebruary 23, 2025
I'm grateful I'm unlikely to work again, because the TRA bullshit in workplaces isn't something I could endure. I'm also very grateful that I've never seen a TIM where I live, and indeed only saw one in all the years I lived in a TIP-infested capital.
notsofreshfeelingFebruary 23, 2025
Born in the USA but I made a point to visit TERF island recently and attended a Let Women Speak there.
NastasyaFillipovnaFebruary 23, 2025
Redditors who can't think for themselves want others to be like them as well
I was born this way. Then I was raised and nurtured at the end the 2nd wave. JKR says the things I wish I could say IRL.
I wish to everything that a viable global common sense movement that actually supports women existed.
It seems the world’s progressives believe in the fallacy that people can change sex. The alternative is the side that absolutely can never ever accept that women are full human beings.
It seems the world’s progressives believe in the fallacy that people can change sex.
Which is nuts, because even post-op trans women still have less than half of female sex-specific organs. Even if you believe it could happen someday - even if you believe we should act as though some TIMs have changed sex - surely you don’t think estrogen pills and the outer appearance of a semi-functional vagina are literally all there is to female sex.
Anywhere I am is automatically a TERF Island.
I'm currently rewatching one of my favourite series, Britannia (a 'historical fantasy' about the Roman invasion of Britain), and one of the best lines is the Roman general saying 'I am Rome...and where I walk is Rome.'
That show was incredible. I’m so disappointed that they didn’t finish it. The ending made my jaw drop.
Have you read/listened to Manda Scott’s Boudica series? Highly recommend.
(I’m not from TERF island; I hope I’m not stepping on any toes commenting here)
I know! I have to make up the ending of the story myself in my head.... Though on rewatching I'm realising there were a lot of 'clues' and foreshadowing that I missed the first time around.
I also just started rewatching it - albeit halfheartedly, but now I’m more enthused, so I’ll keep an eye out for those things.
I'm about 1/3 through season 3 - I should be painting my house and/or going for a swim, but maybe I'll finish the season today....