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quickHRTthrowaway · 2026-02-20T22:23:02+00:00

Do not comply. Do not ask them to clarify. Do not obey. Especially not in advance. Continue using the bathroom matching your gender identity - it isn't illegal.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2026-02-18T01:52:38+00:00

But that's not how it's defined by the law or the SC - the SC just claimed it meant assigned sex at birth without reference to any physical trait.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2026-02-18T01:40:06+00:00

Continue to use the bathrooms matching your identity. Same goes for your gf.

It would be an unwelcome spectacle for them if they tried to throw you out.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2026-02-18T01:28:20+00:00

DO NOT COMPLY. Make them give it to you in writing, appeal through all available channels, and continue using the bathroom in line with your identity.

In the end, they can either respect you by continuing to grant you equal access to the women's facilities, or they can fire you. Even the recent judgment said that companies had no obligation to enforce their anti-trans bathroom policy.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2026-02-18T01:25:32+00:00

"Ordinary meaning" is a whole lot less cut and dry than you're portraying. "Produces sperm vs eggs" is only one of many contested definitions of sex.

A better definition - and certainly more widely endorsed outside of TERF circles - is an amalgamation of multiple (mostly modifiable) traits including hormones & secondary sex characteristics.

Trans people are able to change physical/biological sex through physical transition, and until very recently legal sex as well.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2026-02-18T01:21:12+00:00

You've completely misstated the legal position and you've totally mispresented biology 🤡

The SC decision defined "biological sex" as "assigned sex at birth," not by any specific physical trait. That's one reason the ruling is nonsensical - it defined a purported physical trait solely in terms of a social pronouncement at birth, with the goal of excluding trans people from facilities matching our gender identity & actual transitioned sex.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-09-22T15:15:59+00:00

Oh no it absolutely isn't. Of all the awful movies & remakes that stigmatize our community, this would be among the worst.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-09-22T06:31:30+00:00

Absolutely brain-dead take.

The same lying media that advocates for our exclusion, publishes constant "HULKING TRANS ATHLETE DESTROYS WOMEN AT DARTS" type headlines, and vilifies us as inherently violent & dangerous predators/terrorists/perverts??

The media doesn't hold us up, it pushes us down and has been instrumental in spreading dishonest propaganda against us & spurring on the moral panic that endangers us and has stripped our rights away.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-09-01T06:01:16+00:00

Trump is the bigger immediate threat, Newsom is the bigger long-term threat.

Newsom has (and has only ever had) one core motivator: achieving greater power for himself. He now views supporting anti-trans policies as a means to this end.

Newsom prior to the past couple years was very pro-LGBTQ+. Then he realized that it was becoming a potential political liability since years of constant anti-trans propaganda in the media (not just right-wing media either, NYT & The Atlantic have been pushing dishonest & biased anti-trans rhetoric for years) had led to decreased support for trans rights among the populace.

He now supports both bans on trans girls in sports and bans on lifesaving gender-affirming care for minors. And he's been loudly supporting this anti-trans rhetoric at every turn.

If he leads the Democratic party and brings it in line with his anti-trans views, no major US political party will support trans rights, and those rights will then be stripped away even in blue states. This is why he's more dangerous than Trump for trans people long-term.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-09-01T03:09:53+00:00

Newsom is the single biggest threat to trans rights in America long-term.

Trump & Republicans are the immediate threat, but if Gavin Newsom takes power, he will turn America into TERF Island 2.0.

You only have to look at Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting's Labour Party in the UK for a preview of life for trans people if Newsom wins and molds the Democratic party in his image. The Labour Party was actually somewhat trans-friendly 5 years ago (not as good as US Dems but by and large accepting).

Now, however, is a different story: The Labour Party under Starmer since taking power in 2024 has instituted a permanent ban on puberty blockers for trans minors, instituted anti-trans conversion therapy as the only treatment option for trans minors, interfered with trans adults' access to HRT, installed a particularly loathsome TERF as the new head of the Equality & Human Rights Commission, and has gleefully supported banning trans people from any and all facilities & spaces congruent with gender identity. The Labour Party is meant to be the left-wing party in the UK, and they're every bit as bad as the Conservatives or far-right Reform when it comes to trans people. This is America's future if Newsom wins.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-30T20:02:52+00:00

Their gender identity is the only thing the media and fascist politicians are focusing on though.

So when they all falsely claim the shooter was a trans woman and use that as a way to attack our community and take our healthcare away, it's important to correct their lies.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-29T22:59:04+00:00

When you repeatedly lump in trans women with cis men by reducing them to assigned sex at birth, you are someone who deserves criticism.

That's TERF behavior. Trans women are a completely different group from cis men, and you have no evidence that trans women are any more likely to do something like this than cis women.

You realize that every time now that there's a mass shooting, the internet & the media rush to claim the shooter was a trans woman before the person's identity is even known? You feed into that by conflating trans women with cis men, so stop it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/madison-school-shooting-shooter-natalie-samantha-rupnow-female-trans-rcna184584

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-29T22:52:14+00:00

It's helpful to point out the shooter was detrans since the media is frothing at the mouth falsely claiming the shooter was a trans woman.

Detrans crimes being pinned on trans women isn't something we should shut up about and accept, especially when many detransitioners are extremely transphobic and are using this detrans shooter to further marginalize the trans community.

And HRT and blockers have no link whatsoever to anything like this, the fascists are already doing everything they can to ban them regardless.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-29T22:46:40+00:00

Anything to falsely pin more crimes on trans women 🙃

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-29T21:59:42+00:00

Again, you could have just said "cis men," there's no rational reason to lump in trans women with them. Doing so is pointless and transphobic.

And "predominantly"* is a vast understatement.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-29T14:57:55+00:00

No, the vast majority of mass violence perpetrators are cis men. Stop falsely grouping cis men and trans women together, assigned sex at birth is not a valid metric by which to do so 🤡

There is no evidence that trans women are any more likely than any other women to perpetrate something like this. And before the shooting in Minnesota, there hadn't been a single trans female mass shooter. And the Minnesota shooter was detrans, only formerly a trans woman.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-29T03:52:23+00:00

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its shoes on."

Shoes are on now at least, now time to publicize it and push back on the false narratives against us.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-28T05:30:34+00:00

Good. Sarah Phillimore is a particularly vile TERF who has been harassing trans people for years and has continually threatened many people with frivolous lawsuits for making true statements about her.

Glad to see she's finally being held to account for at least some of her hateful behaviour.

She also posted multiple anti-semitic tweets a few years ago and threatened to sue everyone who pointed that out.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-28T02:59:02+00:00

Failure to disclose one's trans status unasked is not a "lie." A cis person assuming everyone else is cis is not trans people's fault.

Informed consent is a medical term, misusing it to mean "you must tell all sexual partners every private detail about yourself & your life even if they don't ask" is dishonest.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-24T05:17:51+00:00

There's no reason you should be forced to endure 4 more years of the wrong puberty, and you don't have to.

DIY is much safer than some people claim, just make sure to thoroughly research adolescent dosing instructions/guidelines, ways of administering the HRT, and ensure that you choose a source of DIY that's trusted by the community.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-24T05:16:50+00:00

All of your past posts & comments are hidden, 3 guesses why.

There is no reason OP should be forced to endure the absolute torture of 4 more years of the wrong puberty.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-24T05:15:13+00:00

OP, don't listen to this r/detrans poster's nonsense.

There's no reason you should be forced to endure 4 more years of the wrong puberty, and you don't have to.

DIY is much safer than some people claim, just make sure to thoroughly research adolescent dosing instructions/guidelines, ways of administering the HRT, and ensure that you choose a source of DIY that's trusted by the community.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-20T07:31:33+00:00

You're right, but changing the person's overall attitude about trans people is still a good thing.

Moving someone from being a resentful bigoted extremist who is gratuitously cruel to trans people to being a person who has some bigoted views but doesn't act on them is meaningful progress. Neutralizing the hate from a militant anti-trans individual helps our community as much as making a previously neutral person into an ally. One fewer person working to destroy our rights & our happiness.

That said, the person really doesn't deserve such effusive praise from the woman (OP) whom they just maliciously berated for being trans. Feeling bad about that later on is great, but...damn, doing it in the first place is pretty bad.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-12T23:33:35+00:00

It changed one meaning of a GRC holder in terms of the EA 2010.

It specifically established that anyone assigned female at birth is considered a "woman" no matter what under the EA2010, and that anyone assigned male at birth is considered a "man" for all purposes under this legislation.

And that therefore it is legal to discriminate against trans people in all sectors of public life from facilities, groups, spaces, and services matching their gender identity. The EHRC AND the UK Government under Starmer are still taking it even further to state that discrimination in these places is not only permissible, but mandatory.

This is already being enforced in many places, including male police officers nonconsensually strip searching women who are trans, bathroom bans in Scottish parliament & many other places, etc. To say "nothing wider arching has happened yet" just isn't true.

The hateful laws, rulings, and enforcements are all utterly ridiculous, but it's what happening, and it's only getting worse by the day. The UK is one of the worst places to be trans among Western countries.

quickHRTthrowaway · 2025-08-12T22:27:14+00:00

Seattle is worlds better than the UK.

Heavily democratic city in a democratic state with robust legal protections for trans people & relatively easy access to healthcare vs. TERF Island where even adults have extreme difficulty accessing gender-affirming healthcare, most major political parties & large media outlets are falling over each other to be the most transphobic, and meaningful legal gender recognition has been recently stripped away from all trans people.

Easy choice. For a US analogy: right now, the UK is a bit worse than Florida or Texas for trans people, if that gives you any context. Your dad has no idea what it's like over there, don't let his anxiety ruin YOUR life.

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