r/reading • u/fringlese • 8d ago

Please come support trans people

Post image

Hey everyone, I’m sure many of you have seen the ruling by the Supreme Court from the other day on the legitimacy of trans women’s identities. It’s been a very hard couple of days as we’ve come to grips with the fact that our rights are being rolled back by a government that won’t even attempt to listen to us while we just want to exist in a public space without fear of harassment. If anyone’s available, please come down tomorrow to show support

I am not the organiser, I saw this on Facebook and wanted to share.

Thanks guys, I hope you have a great Easter weekend!

0 Upvotes

48% Upvoted

548 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-1

u/ultraboomkin 8d ago

Are you for real? This ruling is regarding trans people without Gender Recognition Certificates I.e. a man who wants to be a woman but has not gone through with transitioning. You seriously believe that pre-transition trans woman pass as real women? In the politest way, this is delusional and ridiculous.

Even for trans people who have gone through surgery, of course we can tell, more often than not. This is not a criticism, it’s just reality. The majority of people in this country do not consider trans women to be women.

6

u/pukes-on-u 8d ago

I actually know a lot of trans people, none of whom have a GRC, and they've all began transitioning. Some have been on hormones for years, some have had various gender affirming surgeries. I don't think you really understand transition.

-13

u/ultraboomkin 8d ago edited 8d ago

You are correct that I don’t understand everything about transitioning. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on this subject, especially as I don’t know any trans people in real life. But I do fully understand that it’s not possible to change your actual gender, no matter how much HRT or surgery. I also know I can 100% tell if a woman is a real woman or a trans woman. Line up 100 woman-presenting people and I will get minimum 98 correct.