Thread by @ReSistersU

This post by Barracker on Mumsnet has been on my mind since I read it and she has kindly agreed to let us share it with you:

"Jeez. The insanity that by necessity follows after you decide the law will 'recognise' a female person as 'male', when they are simply...not.
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Every aspect of sexed existence, every reference to female or male, girl, boy, woman, man, mother, father, daughter, son, sister, brother, they're all references to our binary, sexed bodies. Each one is ultimately a reference to reproductive biology.
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They all relate to one another, they all reference sex.

You detach one single reference, and all the others must fall too, or else they conflict.

I'm pretty jaded now. There's little that would surprise me. Sports, prisons, refuges, schools.
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I expect no end of nonsense. But the one thing that never stops shocking me is that a law was created in the first place that took the word female, which provided recognition of the entire female sex, away from them and created a new, mixed sex, indefinable 'psyche'
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category that female would mean from that day on. I cannot fully comprehend the enormity of legally redefining all females so that men could be 'recognised' as females. That was the day we failed the female sex, comprehensively, utterly.
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I'll never get over it, even when it's repealed, and I'm telling my great grandchildren about the insanity of the early 21st century.

"They literally stopped recognising every actual single woman and girl, every female person. And they told us that we were now all
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an identity instead of a sex, a psychology instead of a physiology. That was what female now meant. So that men could say they were women. And they did, hundreds of thousands of them did. There was no single word for actual females. We weren't allowed one.
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Our word was reallocated to men. We had to talk about ourselves as people with cervixes, or menstruators, and we had to agree that biology wasn't the real difference between the sexes, identity was. One by one, every reference to biological sex was replaced in every law
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with references to identity, until the law had erased any connection with female biology from pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood. Everything became something that applied to both men and women because it was forbidden to have real references to sex.
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Stating that only females were women was enough to lose your job, or even be charged with a crime. Failing to agree with a man that he was a woman was enough to be ostracised, censored or threatened with legal action. Men took over women's sports, institutions, groups.
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Men represented us in every level of society, calling themselves women. There were no words to distinguish ourselves from these men. Everyone could see the female sex were becoming unspeakable people, unspoken of. You weren't allowed to acknowledge our separate existence
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from male people. Men committed crimes and society said women did it. You could never escape a man because he could follow you into any public space by identifying as female. People were very, very afraid to tell the truth.
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Many hundreds of children lost their reproductive organs trying to become the other sex. It was a very dark time.""
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Thanks for allowing us to share this Barracker.
Sounds like fiction doesn't it? Yet we are living it.