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my little sister went on a date with a young farmer tonight. He decided to gift her a 12kg wheel of cheese...?
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tw in women's sport is only THE hot button trans issue bc it's so public, and the photos are right there in ur face. The real issue is and always has been prisons and rape shelters, but it's hidden on the margins of society, and nearly exclusive to poor women, so no one cares.
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I used to look constantly ill. I'm just noticing how much healthier i look now! 🌞 Transing at 15, & the anxiety that came with, was bad for me, it made me visibly unhealthy right into my early 20s.
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#DetransAwarenessDay
I'm Izzy, I am autistic and from age 15-21 I developed an obsessive conviction that I was 'meant to be male'. I told everyone this was the real me. I was neither happy nor healthy, nor 'living my authentic truth', but here's a picture where I'm all 3🙂
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I just wanna say this to someone right now but i'm alone so i'm saying it here-
I'M SO GLAD I DETRANSITIONED!
I've just had this sudden rush of love for my body this week! I feel no SHAME about my female body for the first time in so long and I'M SO JOYFUL 😁😁😁😁
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me in 2014: punch terfs!
me in 2015: punch terfs!
me in 2016: punch terfs!
me in 2017: wait don't actually punch them
me in 2018: shit they make some decent points tho
me in 2019: *desists*
me in 2020: *is a terf*
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Have just seen an american TRA refer to Britain as 'TERF Island' and am suddenly feeling quite patriotic
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For real do people actually think the sudden exponential boom in 14-18 yr olds, mostly girls, coming out as transgender in the last 5 or so years happened just because "there's more trans acceptance now"?
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To anyone new here who may be interested: I am an autistic woman who desisted last year. I wrote this article about my experience 4w.pub/autism-puberty-gender…
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OK, finally, I am writing a thread on female ASD/Asperger's and trans identity.
For me, my thinking I was trans was completely inseparable from my autism. My interest in trans issues became an autistic obsession that I was completely absorbed in;
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#DetransAwarenessDay
Let girls look like this. With no judgement, no punishment, no assumption of being LGBT, nothing. Just let us be. (Me at age 3 and 15)
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my unpopular autism opinion is that functioning labels are justified and necessary. Someone like me, who can talk fluently and hold down a full-time job is in a completely different realm to someone who can't speak or do their own personal care.
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For me it was Autism, for some it's eating disorders, for some it's sexual abuse and bad childhoods. Pleeeeease can we stop pretending all these young girls suddenly transitioning out of the blue are not part of a wider pattern of female self-hatred and escapism?? Please?
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Basically, being transgender was the only explanation I had at the time for issues that were actually rooted in autism. I thought testosterone would fix me, and make my body as masculine as my brain seemed to be.
In fact, my brain wasn't 'masculine' at all, it was autistic.
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Now I've been post-trans-phase for about 6 months, I can't believe that for 6 years I thought only hormone injections would make me comfortable. I was SO WRONG (but then again aren't we all wrong about things when we're 16/17?)
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being gay is when you're female and draw boys with floppy hair on tumblr dot com, i thought everyone knew this?
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Yes, when I was a teen in a nonbinary phase. he also used to comment on pictures of me iirc. Back then I was thrilled that a "famous" nonbinary person had noticed me and nowadays looking back I'm just like 🤢🤢🤢
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The funny thing is that they aren't together, but I've since ended up with a sheep farmer bf who gave me a huge leg of his lamb on the third date. Twitter seems to think this is weird, but it's just how country people flirt 😆
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Most (I'd say at least 80%) detrans ppl I've seen & spoken to are aged 20-25, female, and thought we were trans as an escape mechanism for deeper-lying issues.
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and he was being insistent that he wanted an orgy with everyone. This person was fully presenting as a man. I was so uncomfortable after that. I declined his offer to give me a lift home and walked 5 miles home instead with a lot to think about. What a weird one...
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the big detransition life lesson, as many have said, is that you stop believing in incorporeal identities and see that you just ARE your body. You can just get on with life in the material world instead of being tormented by ghosts, obsessing over the immaterial that can never be
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rn, verified tick rich people are trying to cancel me, a minimum wage care worker. Nice. Have your fun. I have a 12 hour shift tomorrow so I'm going to sleep through all your smears, bye!
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Using my birthname on here again. In real life, legally changing my name back to my birthname will be harder than just clicking a text box, no doubt! Taking baby steps back to my old self #detrans
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I am proposing that the 'woman: adult human female' billboard replace the union jack as the flag of TERF Island
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I read a few radfem blogs and couldn't stop reading them. I hadn't been properly exposed to radfem views, just taught to hate them. When I started reading those blogs in my first term of uni I was just catapulted back into reality.
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That's a shallow simplification, the real reasons these kids are transitioning are way darker but yall aren't ready for that conversation.
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2: When you are female & autistic you are aware from a young age that your brain seems to be wired differently to the girls around you (other autistic women will vouch for this). In the current climate, it was easy for me to misinterpret this as having a brain wired like a boy's.
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Can you propose new laws as an MEP? Have you proposed any new legislation to benefit your constituents since becoming an MEP?
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It was my autism diagnosis in 2017 that made me begin to put all the parts together and realise I had made the wrong decision wrt transition. It truly changed my life and saved me from doing something I would certainly have regretted.
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I didn't really think about anything else. Autism means you have very narrow obsessions that are difficult to see outside of, and trans activism was definitely one of mine from age 16-19. I also, I think, mistook ASD symptoms for gender dysphoria:
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The old family farms around me are all being kept going by ppl in their 70s+. Disaster waiting to happen, and quite soon
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1: Difficulty adjusting to change. I simply could not handle the way my body was changing during puberty and the speed at which it was changing. The changes didn't make sense to me. I didn't want to look at my body, take proper care of it, or god forbid show it to anyone else.
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Lesbians are not the only women who do traditionally masculine things or look traditionally masculine. I will admit that it jars me a bit that often on here when people talk about 'gnc women', they are only talking about lesbians. Let's not synonymise those.
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and when you're 15, undiagnosed, and surrounded by trans culture online it's easy to come to the conclusion that you must have a male brain because you have typically male patterns of thinking.
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Submerging into cold water for a swim, running to the point of heart-thumping exhaustion, making love, these experiences just couldn't be lived, be felt the same way when i was trans. My mind was severed from my body, always contemplating the ghost of gender instead of just BEING
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Autism makes you good at systematising but bad at empathising, which are traits we typically associate with men. Not to get all 'not like the other girls' on u but...yeah, with ASD we have to take into account that our thinking process is v different and in many ways more 'male'
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The trans/detrans comparison pics are always grumpy vs smiley hahaha mine are the same, love to see it 🤩
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my only regret is that I spent 6 years hating the fact that I am a woman and hating my female body, but the good news is that now I get to amend that by being THE most radiant woman I can possibly be and loving this body like my frickin life depends on it 💗💗💗
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I'm one of those! Was referred to GIDS with my autism diagnosis never being recorded, discussed or acknowledged. They should be keeping records of this stuff and they are not.
#KeiraBell I find this quite devastating, I think there is far more in this judgment than the narrow consent over PB. I think this is exposing a deeply broken medical practice with vulnerable kids. This is saying they haven't a clue how many autistic kids they misdiagnose
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Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that autistic female brains are similar to neurotypical male brains (although all scientific evidence around autism and gender is very limited)
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The actual medical labels for levels of autism aren't named 'high' and 'low'. It's a numbered level system. Level 1 ASD is very different to level 3 ASD. These labels are actually really necessary to make sure autistic people get the right support from the healthcare system.
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This means the egg that became you was once inside your grandmother's womb...there was a trace of you 2 generations before you were even born...god women's bodies are so cool
When I was pregnant with my daughter I learned that a baby girl is born with her eggs. I loved the thought that my mum grew me, and the eggs that then became my 2 children. And my daughter already has 50% of her possible children. It’s fucking amazing #BiologicalWoman
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Shifting your focus to the unaltered, unalterable body is beautiful really. I now find myself experiencing the wild, base, animal sensations of my body, on a level I never could when I was busy obsessing over the internal matters of identity and gender academia.
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Yeah, tbh this post isn't that serious, I never actually thought that punching terfs was ok, but I'm just using the 'punch terfs' phrase a bit flippantly to denote how invested I was in trans ideology during those years. 👍🏻
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This this this!!! I was 15, and looked, behaved like a 15 y.o. girl. Many of the 15 y.o. girls at my school looked/behaved like they were 18+ bc of sexualized popular culture, and taunted me for not conforming. My response (transitioning) was exaggerated, yes, but can u blame me?
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2010s trans teen checklist:
Female
13-17
Autistic
Social difficulties
Above average intelligence
Eating disorder
Other body image issues
Unexamined mental health issues
Childhood trauma
Same sex attracted
Spends all free time on the internet
Drug abuse
Very low self esteem
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You don't need a selfie filter. You don't need makeup. You don't need lip fillers. You don't need plastic fingernails and eyelashes. All this synthetic shit, all these vapid beauty rituals, I can't get over how pointless it all is, yet it is what dominates all our pop culture.
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Hey girl! Are you Gen Z? Don't want to be perceived as an adult woman from the age of 14? You should try becoming a Smol Transboi!!!🌸💙💗🧚🏼♂️
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I'm taking this Tampax thing as another opportunity to tell ya that reusable fabric pads are better. ♻️ Stop giving them money!
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Her cause is a noble one but as someone who was once a 16 year old autistic girl I can't help but worry about her mental wellbeing in all this.
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Oh yeah? I voted Leave when I was 18, I'm now 21 and am gonna have done an entire degree by the time we leave the EU!
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Healthy male sexuality is great. Male sexuality when it gets distorted to this degree is terrifying
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conversation is so hard dude I do not want to talk about the weather or my feelings I simply want to deliver my passionate 2 hour monologue about the decay of the west and then leave
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the 'how vague and ambiguous can we make these gender stereotypes?' hole being dug by trans people is actually bottomless
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People seriously live in the information age and still think they can just ~ban~ certain texts 😂 the text will just pop up again in pdf form online....god I love the internet 💖
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I didn't have a "dynamic gender ID" I had ASD and mistook it for gender dysphoria and nearly ruined my life because of it 🙄 detransitioners EXIST and we exist outside your politics, sorry.
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Here's why i seeked out a fellow autist to fall in love with. Normie men treat shy women the same way women treat autistic men. They snigger at us and are visibly embarrassed to be with us. Your options are either become more extroverted or find someone similarly asocial.
Women aren’t rewarded in the dating market for being reserved and innocent in the year of our lord 2023. It’s an extroverts game and men are actually very cruel to women who they deem “weird” and under socialized because they don’t want to be embarrassed in front of their friends
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I have woken up to HUNDREDS of notifications which I am definitely not used to! Slightly overwhelming for a little aspie like me 😅 I am off to do a painting job all day but the many kind words have not gone unappreciated 💜
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when my area, the cotswolds, was badly flooded in 2007 it wasn't declared a national emergency. Because it wasn't. It was a local emergency.
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Am I destroying my entire endocrine system for online validation?
No, it's the women who are insane
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I'm clearing out my room and why did 10 year old me choose to hide a geological hammer behind the wardrobe? What was her motive?? And where did I even get a geological hammer?????
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Heyyy, I got published! 😎🤠
"Thinking I was trans was completely inseparable from my autism," writes Elizabeth Hawker. As girls, many with signs of ASD, are adopting a trans identity―stories like Elizabeth's are more important than ever.
#AutismAwarenessWeek #TransDayOfVisibility.
4w.pub/autism-puberty-gender…
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Man I don't relate to the internalized homophobia detrans woman narrative at all. I was the complete other way round. Convinced myself I was only attracted 2 women for 7 years and turns out I'm straight as a bloody ruler. LGBTQYXWZ+ tumblr really did bits on me
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I was about to post a nice photo of myself today when one of my more...controversial...tweets got picked up on by transactivist accounts threatening me violence, now I just wanna remove my face from everything again #AHHHH
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This is how much blanket I've made so far. I'm rather proud of it. (I won't be keeping the squares in this order.)
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You can acknowledge and believe in sex dysphoria without believing in the fantasy of gender identities
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I should never have been dragged into this trans mess. I was literally just a slightly androgynous kid. Curse being born just in time to come of age in 2015.
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I wasn't joking earlier when I said I feel patriotic about the UK's radfems. Feminism began here and it's here that we will continue to beat the drum. The movement for female freedom is the proud legacy of this country's women ❤
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I have a history of persisting with things long after they stop making me happy, because they seem to be making other people happy. Transitioning was like that, and so was my last relationship. I have to stop doing this!
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Do you really not understand why or are you pretending to not understand why? It's pretty obvious right?
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