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MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶

@MrMennoTweets

Aug 21, 2024

1 / "Just treat me like a guy when you f**k me"

No.

You are a woman.

Gay men don't owe you sex for your 'validation'.

#BoxerCeiling

2 / Gay men are constantly being gaslighted that women can be gay men too and called bigots if we don't go along with it.

They are trying to rewrite male homosexuality to include females.

It is homophobic as f**k.

I made a video about this 2 years ago, about how gay men are being taught to go 'eat 🐈‍⬛' 🤯

3 / When a movement's rallying cry boils down to "F me to validate me" you know it's nothing to do with civil rights.

This is an abusive, destructive movement that will stop at nothing in its insatiable quest for 'validation'.

It feeds on women's rights
It feeds on gay rights
It feeds on parental rights
It feeds on children's rights
It feed on their own bodies

And it will never be enough

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MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶

@MrMennoTweets

Aug 16, 2024

1 / Mammoth thread 🧵🦣 Had a challenging chat yesterday with a dad (an old friend) whose son started 'puberty blockers' a few months ago. Had to navigate a very complex conversation on the spot:

▶️ what to say
▶️ what not to say
▶️ how to communicate certain things to make sure they landed
▶️ giving him enough space to process what I was saying
▶️ noticing his body language and facial expressions
▶️ giving him enough space to ask questions and share whatever he wanted to share
▶️ ensuring he felt comfortable enough to share deeply personal stuff in the first place, and to be able to do so without feeling like he was being judged as a parent
▶️ how to not let my own emotions get in the way or become a distraction - this situation was first and foremost about a worried dad and his distressed son

We talked for hours and were both so happy to have been able to have this kind of conversation, but it was also upsetting as it put certain dark realities into very sharp focus.

I'm posting about it here in the hope it will help some of you navigate these conversations when you're faced with them, and would love to hear your thoughts on what you've found to be helpful from your experiences.

We cannot underestimate the importance of these conversations and the impact they may have. There is no magic formula but together we can work out some key pointers for 'best practice'.

I'll add annotations in italics.

M = Menno
F = Friend

OK, let's go...

#KeepSpeakingKeepPeaking

2 / An old friend messaged to say he was visiting the UK with his teenage son and wanted to meet up. We met at uni back in 1994 (!) and had last seen each other 7 years ago. We don’t really keep in touch regularly but always have a good time when we meet and simply pick up where we left off.

He sent me a pic of him and his son and I went “Uh oh…” His son looks young for his age, has very long hair and quite an androgynous look in a soft / sweet / angelic sort of way. My first thoughts were “That’s the kind of kid that gets bullied” (I remember those days well myself) and “I hope he knows it’s perfectly fine to not be a ‘typical boy’ and that he doesn’t get sucked into thinking of himself as some kind of magical gender person.”

I was about to find out...

3 / We met at noon and it was so good to see him again. He’s such a friendly guy and always has the biggest smile. I noticed his son was shy and awkward, so I tried to be friendly and calm around him. He mumbled rather than spoke (like I used to), he tried to make himself physically smaller (like I used to), and seemed a bit vacant.

My friend asked me what I was up to these days and so I said I’d started looking into the conflict between sex and gender. His son immediately turned his face away and looked uncomfortable. “Maybe we should talk about that later,” I said to my friend. “I think that would be best,” he responded.” My initial hunch of “Uh oh” had unfortunately been right. Sometimes it’s not nice to be right.

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MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶

@MrMennoTweets

Jul 30, 2024

1 / DOUBLE MASTECTOMIES promoted at local Brighton supermarket 🚨😲

Yesterday I went to get some I thought ice cream at @coopuk on St James Street in Brighton. The first thing you see as you walk in is a notice board with posters and leaflets for anything from local music events, maths tutoring, yoga… and getting your breasts surgically removed. All dressed up in the usual baby pink, baby blue and white and disguised by the word ‘top surgery’ so Joe Bloggs won’t take notice.

The leaflet is for an ‘advisory care service’ that puts women (who believe themselves to be male, or neither male of female, or whatever ‘identity’ they feel necessitates breast removal) in touch with surgeons in ‘medical tourism’ hotspots like Poland, Mexico, Thailand, the Czech Republic, and India.

I decided to speak to someone in the shop to see if they were aware of this leaflet.

2 / So I get my ice cream and pay at the self-checkout, then go up to the check outs where there were two staff members. One a young bloke on oestrogen, and a middle aged bloke. I ask the latter what the rules are for putting something on the notice board. “At long as it doesn’t have any swear words it should be fine.”

“There a leaflet on there that promotes double mastectomies”, I say.

“What?! Show me.” He comes out from behind the checkout and we walk to the notice board. “Well it’s gone now because I took it down. Got it in my bag. Here it is.”

And I showed him.

Pic 1: the leaflet
Pic 2: notice board after I took the leaflet down

I said “Top surgery is a euphemism for double mastectomies - but targeted specifically at girls and women who feel uncomfortable with their body. Should something like that be up on the board here? We’re talking breast amputation.”

“I hadn’t even seen it. Maybe because it’s Pride?” he said.

“Since when is Pride about amputation?” I ask. “Gays and lesbians fought to get away from ‘medical’ treatment, like lobotomies, electroshocks, castration.”

He pauses for a bit. “It’s kinda crazy how things have been hijacked huh?”

“This just seems really dodgy to me. Who even is behind this service? Do they even diagnose patients properly, or what is the process? Does it belong on a notice board next to yoga classes and a theatre show?”

“I wasn’t aware it was even there.”

“That’s why they use the ‘trans’ colours and obfuscating language. Because when it’s ‘trans’ no one is allowed to question it, right?”

“Well thanks for taking it down mate” he says, and I leave. Then I meet some people outside…

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MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶

@MrMennoTweets

Jan 28, 2024

1 / This is the guy who stalks #LetWomenSpeak in London and posed as a detransitioned woman to get friendly with some of the regulars and get info / contact details.

He tries to get people arrested for any and every reason so if you ever see him *do not engage*

He even wore Kellie-Jay merchandise and had an adult human female flag to pretend he was ‘on our side’.

2 / First time I saw him was Spring or Summer 2022. He was hovering around Reformers Tree, some women were talking to him and I walked up to them. “Oh my god, MrMenno, I looooooove your videos!” he said. “Oh great - which one is your fave?” He looked at me blank, didn’t have an answer. Thought he was a TRA.

Then a month or two later he joined us at a summer picnic. That’s when he wore a Kellie-Jay scarf and said he was a detransitioned woman. I asked him some questions about his so-called ‘transition’ and he waffled a bit. I didn’t believe him.

3 / March 2023 he showed up, again with his scarf and this time an adult human female flag. There was a group of TRAs trying to intimidate the women. I filmed as I walked up to the gathering, and you can see him chatting with his TRA mates (note the one with the pink and blue hair). As soon as he saw me filming he quickly walked away.

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MrMenno 🏳️‍🌈🎶

@MrMennoTweets

Sep 30, 2023

1 / 🚨𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 '𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦' 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗦🚨

- Marcus claims to be 'non-binary transgender' and wants to be referred to as 'she / her'

- Lucia said he is biologically and scientifically male

- Marcus is now suing Lucia for €11,000.

This is Marcus.

2 / Marcus is an activist and takes part in talks about feminism where he discusses 'transfeminism'. Here's an interview. He says that at home he 'pretends' to be a 'cis man'.

He recommends we read a book by Susan Stryker, a man who claims to be a lesbian (and was a keynote speaker at Lesbian Lives in Ireland in 2022).

3 / Lucia has put a crowdfunder up (use Google Translate to translate the webpage if the option doesn't come up automatically)

www-gofundme-com.translate.goog/f/lucia-etxeba…

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