Aussie-Kiwi-American. Several qualifications, some more useful than others.
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This is so disturbing!
Sall Grover is enabling what is clearly a highly controlling, abusive parent to continue to inflict as much distress as possible on her child.
Celebrating the public sharing of anyone's private diary about their rape without their consent.
Who does that!!
Bun retweeted
Staggering that Kath Deves dares to accuse anyone of being "horrible, deplorable, judgemental" and "lacking compassion", especially while she's defending this abusive mother who has just publicly shared the intimate private diary entries of a minor.
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I still just can't fathom the support for this Mother.
Even bigoted parents wouldn't do this to their kid
This is an entire community of people who feel morally justified in siding with an abuser to amplify the damage to a victim.
GC mentality is very distinct in its cruelty.
Probably because transwomen are a non-problem in a state with rampant domestic violence, substance abuse issues, rising youth crime, a huge gap in First Nations health and life expectancy, a housing crisis and the highest rate of rheumatic heart disease on the planet.
Which makes Gold Coast Sall, Bond University alumni, erstwhile failed Hollywood screen writer and globetrotter, look somewhat ridiculous and irrelevant.
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The more I look into this, the wilder it is. Regardless of your politics, the mum has repeatedly disclosed to the entire planet her (now adult and estranged child’s) alleged sexual assault and personal details without their permission. It’s abusive behaviour but people are somehow applauding it.
This should never have been platformed out of simple human decency.
If this person was indeed assaulted, why would the Sall Grovers of the world allow the mother to retraumatise the victim like this?
Is this how low you’ve all sunk?
There is no indication to date that the now 26 year old has detransitioned, and by the Mum’s own admission hasn’t spoken to them for many years.
Also, under Australian law at the time, cross sex hormones for any person under 18 required both parents to consent. Otherwise a competency hearing to assess Gillick competency had to be heard in court and a judgement made. So either the teenager had a literal court hearing to assess their Gillick competency or waited 2 years until they were 18 to start. (testosterone was apparently started in 2018, which would make them 18, so the latter is likely). Either way, they obviously weren’t fast tracked onto hormones as a minor.
Can we also talk about the mother being a guest speaker at a screening of an evangelical Christian anti LGBT documentary? A doco that promotes praying away the gay.
Or that she admits to spending years trying to convince churches to take a more hardline stance.
Imagine if the clip you posted demonstrates immediately that the Mum is likely lying. By her own admission, the child was 16 at the time. They would not have been offered puberty blockers, as they had already entered puberty.
Did any of you fact check this or did you just let this person try and inflict maximum damage on their estranged 26 year old child because it suits your politics?
Bun retweeted
Tess is clearly a highly controlling, abusive and incredibly cruel parent.
Taking her words at face value alone.
She has publicly shared her daughter's diary & alleged rape without consent.
Who does that!!
It's an obvious attempt to punish & inflict more distress on her child.
Imagine if the clip you posted demonstrates immediately that the Mum is likely lying. By her own admission, the child was 16 at the time. They would not have been offered puberty blockers, as they had already entered puberty.
Did any of you fact check this or did you just let this person try and inflict maximum damage on their estranged 26 year old child because it suits your politics?
Bun retweeted
Taking what Tess says at face value. It's sooo fucked up. Publicly sharing her daughter's diary & alleged rape without consent.
Who does that!!
No concern for her kids distress.
She was just all ME ME ME & "I didn't do anything wrong" & "i'm the victim" blah blah blah
My understanding is that her child is now 26, is still trans identified and is completely estranged from the mother.
So yeah, rather than attempting to repair a fractured relationship with an adult child by eg respecting them, the mother made a documentary revealing deeply personal information without that persons consent.
Instead of calling out the toxic narcissism, people are commiserating with the mother that she’s the real victim.
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Gender criticals are deeply disliked in the real world. And it’s not because they’re transphobic. It’s because women have a high danger sense for the kind of neurotic, self-victimized women attracted to anti-trans obsession.
They are the ones bringing drama to the PTA. They are the neighbor texting about trivialities. demanding you rearrange your life to please them.
These are not happy women with good relationships with their children. They leave comments on my Facebook all the time, and I look through their profiles. On average, they are divorced, past middle-age, frumpy, moralistic and alone. They often have posts wondering why their children never call.
It took me a few years after transition to understand why women can be so on guard around other women. Their kind of behavior is exactly why. It’s trying to hurt other people so they can feel good. And most women have been dealing with their kind since they were teenagers and know avoiding them is wisest.
That social ostracization actually drives a feedback loop. They are attracted to Trans-eliminationism because it gives them a community. That makes their behavior even worse, leading to more loneliness.
They could get their wish and eliminate every single one of us tomorrow, and it wouldn’t solve anything in their life. They would be exactly as alone and their children would still hate them.
I hesitate to use the word “Neo-Nazi” without objective evidence, but “Keith Woods” (an alias) is at the very least a White Nationalist and self-confessed raging antisemite, so yeah, that tracks.
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Ashkenazi Jews are terrified of white supremacist nazis (republicans) and Sephardic are terrified of Islamic Supremacist nazis (democrats).
The reason you can’t do genetic testing on a minor without a court order in Israel is because there are no civil marriages, only religious, a legal artefact inherited from the Ottoman Turks via the British mandate that they haven’t gotten around to fixing yet. Under Jewish religious law if someone is born outside wedlock there are significant restrictions on them getting married. The law seeks to protect people from this in several ways, so for instance if you get divorced, any baby you have for the next year (I think) is automatically legally listed as your ex husbands to prevent it being labelled a bastard.
Genetic testing for adults and prenatal testing is widely available, and civil marriages from other countries, are recognised.
This is total BS.
Most parents today in Israel preform genetic testing on their kids - before they are born.
Why ? Because of genetic diseases.
Now, you would think that only Ashkenazi carry certain genes and that Sephardic are completely different - but surprize: Study after study find that all Jews share common genes - dating back 2000 and 3000 years ago.
As for the Palestinians : Many are fron Egypt, from the Levant (Jordan Syria) if Joe Rogan is so sure of his BS he is welcome to do his genetic research.
Others have done it.
.@grok - what do we know about Jewish Genom ?
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1/ One great Patrick Stewart anecdote from his memoir: He was cast in David Lynch's DUNE, in which he gave a commanding performance. Uncharacteristically, Lynch was cold and weird toward him and the shoot was torture because Lynch was so odd...
There is now a new goal for writers that lets you know that you have truly arrived as an author.
Since Clive James denied me the opportunity to be done down in print in the literary reviews by inconveniently expiring, I’ve wondered what my new metric should be.
I must confess that my unexpected appearance on Mumsnet has been rather educational.
Until now, my knowledge of the place was largely confined to occasional screenshots, second-hand accounts and the sort of folklore one picks up while wandering through the less salubrious districts of the internet.
This was my first proper expedition.
I had initially assumed that someone had casually mentioned my essay in passing. A perfectly unremarkable occurrence. Someone writes something on X, somebody else shares it elsewhere, and the world continues turning upon its axis.
Imagine my surprise upon discovering that I'd apparently become the subject of a modest public inquiry.
My intelligence, masculinity, literary qualifications, psychological disposition, political affiliations and presumed resentment of successful women had all been submitted for consideration.
Naturally, I was delighted.
I had written an essay about J.K. Rowling and somehow acquired an unofficial biographical committee.
Some of the ladies and gentlemen did attempt to address the arguments, and I appreciate the effort. Others appeared rather more interested in reconstructing my personality from the available evidence, which consisted principally of a few thousand words and an unusually theatrical manner of expressing myself.
Still, I understand that several contributors have suggested I might like to register and make an appearance.
How very hospitable.
But I really must decline.
I have no particular desire to descend upon Mumsnet like an excessively verbose Spanish conquistador, unfurl my standards in the town square and demand that the assembled mothers of Britain answer for their remarks.
You have your community. I have mine.
You're perfectly entitled to discuss, criticise, ridicule and dissect anything I publish. I rather enjoy the idea that something I've written might generate conversation somewhere I've never visited.
And I have no particular desire to antagonise women going about their business on a forum simply because some of them have been unkind about me.
I realise this may be disappointing to those who have already concluded that I am an embittered misogynist with an insatiable appetite for female humiliation.
But there we are.
This is me respecting your space and your boundaries.
I trust the irony will receive the careful consideration it deserves.
In the meantime, please carry on.
I shall remain here, safely on the other side of the internet, where I can continue committing aggravated pomposity without inconveniencing the residents.
And if another essay finds its way across the border, I can assure you it will have travelled entirely of its own accord.
I have enough trouble keeping the bloody things under control as it is.