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[–]Sistersovermisters 46 insightful - 1 fun46 insightful - 0 fun47 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Legit just came here to post this. I feel like a pit has opened up in my stomach. I really loved how she was contributing to gender non-forming expression and just so many different aspects of her, including her lesbian status, made me respect her so much. We were the same height, too!

Now I feel even more alone, and I can't help but feel this is going to snowball for others as well in terms of what they are questioning and how they perceive the trans movement as whole.

Edit: I believe that although I felt this way, I might have misworded this a bit and that this is also a misconception! Please read MarkTwaniac's below comment edit for how Ellen comes off in a presenting sense.

[–]Liz-B-Anne 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Same. I'm going off on Twitter. The hashtag "TERFs" and related things are trending so don't back down if you have an account there. We can't let these fuckers win. This is the most heteronormative, misogynistic and HOMOPHOBIC movement since the Republican party married the Christian evangelicals in the '80s.

[–]MarkTwainiac 33 insightful - 1 fun33 insightful - 0 fun34 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I wonder if this announcement was timed to take attention away from the announcement today of the UK court's unanimous ruling that kids under 16 can't consent to puberty blockers to treat "gender dysphoria," and that from now on UK clinicians will have to go to court for permission to prescribe them to any minor 16 and over. This puts a big crimp in the international kiddie-transing juggernaut.

[–]slushpilot 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's also conveniently timed well with Canada's reading of Bill C-6 on criminalizing "conversion therapy" according to the newer definition including gender identity.

Page is Canadian and the CBC of course had the story covered right away.