Ritchie 🌷

I want to tell everyone what they took from us, what irreversible really means, and what that reality looks like for us. No one told me any of what I’m going to tell you now. 🧵

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive I've hand held you like you asked, idk how to make it any plainer

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive In response to what comment? In what context? Come on now, be for real.

On Detrans Awareness Day last Thursday, I was reunited with someone I hadn’t seen in eight years. We met in Brighton Hospital in 2018. We had the same surgery on the same day by the same surgeon. We both detransitioned.

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive x.com/PITTpersons/st… This is your original statement

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive Nope, the original argument was about detransitioners and regret rates compared to a what if scenario involving the death penalty. That is a false equivalence. I made a sound comparison re: regret rates to call out the false equivalence.

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive Excuse me sir, but you directly quoted tattoo regret no death penalty comparison?

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive goalpost shifting: Death penalty comparison → regret rates → endocrine concerns

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive This is what you are doing though?

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive 3/trying to make it about other aspects beyond that is moving the goalposts and creating strawmen.

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive It's the very definition of a false equivalence. A tattoo can be reversed and doesn't impact your endocrine system, sexual health and mobility.

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive 2/regret: 10-20% Tattoo regret: 24-40% This directly contradicts your framing - comparing procedures by regret rates is not a false equivalence; it's exactly the relevant comparison for patient outcomes and informed decision-making. This was the basis for the original argument

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive You made the comparison between having genitals turned inside out than banning knee surgery/tattoos. That is the false equivalence. It drastically understates the impact of these surgeries and attempts to diminish those that do experience regret

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive Walk me through it please, show your work.

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive You said that we would ban knee surgery because of the regret rate, but not this, that is the false equivalence

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive That wasn't the equivalence I was drawing, as the point was about regret - but do go on.

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive Yes, you made a false equivalence with a completely different medical procedure that isn't framed as 'life saving'. Besides, knee surgery doesnt destroy your endocrine system like being in a state of hypogonadism

@TullipR @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive Where? If you mean "...regardless, none of those come even close to the death penalty" that is me re-iterating their false equivalence. If you mean my earlier examples, those are all procedures that have higher regret rates than gender affirming care.🤷‍♀️

@PITTpersons @Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive He says after making a false equivalences

@Harpbe_Nimble @AthertonSusanne @FictionFive @TullipR Of course not, thankfully, that isn't happening, and regardless, none of those come even close to the death penalty. Makes for great fearmongering though. Nice of you to totally miss the point I made - you made a false equivalence was my point.

@coccinellanovem @bluecatsarah Quite well, he was in the detrans awareness day picture!

@TullipR @bluecatsarah How is he doing?

@KaliNyxSpeaks My pleasure Kali xo

@TullipR I'll always be so grateful for you speaking out, Richie. The first interview I watched that made me dive down the rabbit hole of gender ideology, question my non-binary identity, and second-guess my desire to remove my breasts. You're one of my heroes. Thank you. Always.

@Southwalesaudit @WomenAreReals @JonniSkinner @ErinFriday75490 @bourne_beth2345 @SophiaSLorey @KDansky @SF_TERF_CENTRAL @Sac_TERF_Ca @TullipR @SashaAguilar69 @sappholives83 @SashaGreenwater I took Jonni 13 for help loving himself as himself. told me congrats you have a daughter. When I said what? I was told I could have a living daughter or a dead son that 60% of trans kids from 13-23 don't make it due to suicide & if I am not a supportive home they can find one

Tonight the Scottish Parliament voted NO to legalising assisted suicide in Scotland by 69 votes to 57 Thank you to the MSP's who listened to the evidence & experiences of all those with concerns about this Bill Hopefully Westminster will follow the Scottish Parliament's example

@TolChikSmolDik Don't do it fam

I officially only have 130 days left until the big surgery and I can't wait, it's only taken me 8 years to get to this point 😭🥰

For the first time in 4 years I bring you - a new Substack post! Link in next tweet

Teen girls (like the one I was) who think they’re transgender 🏳️‍⚧️, are being told it’s safe and reversible to bind their breasts. But here’s what girls like me were NEVER told: That not only will long-term binding destroy our healthy breasts, but potentially our skin, lungs, nerves, necks, and spines as well. That this damage only gets more painful with time, not less. That we will live with lasting pain and disfigurement to our chests sustained because of breast binding, whether we continue onto mastectomy or whether we do not. That mastectomy will not ‘erase’ or undo the harms of binding. Those who argue that “gender affirming” breast binding is “just social transition” akin to a change of clothes are either simply ignorant or they are simply LIARS. I am done mincing words here. I no longer care whether the people who peddle these dangerous ideas via bad arguments call themselves trans activists, gender critical activists or detransition activists. An identity label or activist label of any kind does not entitle one to blatantly mislead the public about the most common source of transition-related injuries that young women experience. Breast/chest binders are medical devices with approved clinical uses in post-surgical recovery for very short periods of time under strict medical supervision to monitor harms. There is no legitimate medical reason for a healthy girl or woman to be compressing her entire upper body (especially during development) for 8-12 hour days, stretching into months and then into years at a time. It will neither make her happier, nor healthier, nor more functional. It will only damage her body, cause her a potential lifetime of devastating pain and make her desperately want her now irreparably damaged breasts, removed. How do I know? Because I was one of those young women who was lied to. Because my whole generation was lied to. And because so many people, both trans activists and gender critical activists continue to equivocate about “safe” ways to bind your breasts without so much as study showing it can be done safely. Thank you to the team at @genspect including the spirited, determined and energetic @stellaomalley3 for giving me a platform to raise awareness about the cause of (by far) the most common but least discussed sources of transition injuries faced by young women, and of course, for allowing me to share my thoughts on gender identity ideation, desistance, detransition and to say a few words on how these themes overlap with autism.

@Laura_ltdn18 You too :)

@TullipR It was great to meet you Ritchie!!

Saying goodbye after such an awesome trip is so damn hard I love the US and the people in it

@George4Tea @TerfSchool Yes, and it applies across sexual orientation. We dont have much data, but the big kink survey showed that self-described homosexual transexuals shared the same levels of arousal as hetersoexuals

@TullipR @TerfSchool Ritchie, that doesn’t make sense. All men who are “trans” want to “be” or view themselves as a woman.

Porn is making AGPs out of your sons.

@George4Tea @TerfSchool Orientation is secondary. AGP first and foremost is the embodiment of oneself as a woman.

@TullipR @TerfSchool Why do you think AGP is a separate cat from the homosexuals? It's nothing more than taking a binary of homosexual vs heterosexual and not looking at the underlying condition beneath both of them.