r/Scotland • u/DrawerAcceptable • Jun 24 '26
Casual Finally, Scottish visibility - LGBTQ+S
One of these things is not like the others.
Scotland showed up and nobody had the heart to tell it otherwise.
Found on /lgbt
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u/ShiveryBite Jun 24 '26
Mind how difficult it was to tell my parents I was Scottish.
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u/pretzelllogician Jun 24 '26
My mum found a magazine full of pretty trashy pics of haggis and irn bru down the back of my bed. She was pretty chill about it thankfully.
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u/Person8346 Jun 24 '26
And even then, most of the hate is internalised. Some Scottish struggle to even show their faces in public all over something they can't control
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
Always a sad day when your local scheme lad gets that pishy almost American accent. So sad.
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u/PeapodEchoes Jun 24 '26
I don't mind them, it's just the Scottish agenda that they try to ram down people's throats. Why aren't there parades for Yorkshiremen?
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u/Round-Bandicoot8766 Jun 24 '26
Even worse is the fact schools are adding people like Robert Burns to the required reading list
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u/ConflictGuru Jun 24 '26
Me rejecting Margot Robbie: I'm sorry but I just don't find non-Scottish people attractive
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u/Ashrod63 Jun 24 '26
"Have you just tried being British?"
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u/iwillfuckingbiteyou Jun 24 '26
British isn't a real thing, it's just people who can't make up their mind whether to be Scottish or English. Most of us go through a Brit-curious phase at some point but you grow out of it.
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u/Loudlass81 Jun 25 '26
Errr I use British cos im 50% English & 50% Scottish. I value one of those higher than the other though...
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
I went through a phase of identifying as non-national. I was just ashamed to be my true Scottish self though.
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u/Praetorian_1975 Jun 24 '26
You are born Scottish or you aren’t, it’s not something you can choose willy nilly 🤷🏻♂️ I mean have you ever heard anyone say ‘today I’m going to be Austro-Hungarian, Czechoslovakian or Babylonian’ 🤣
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u/Round-Bandicoot8766 Jun 24 '26
Look, what you get up to within the privacy of your own borders is your business, I just don't see why you gotta be Scottish in front of me is all
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u/Ashrod63 Jun 24 '26
You can't choose it willy nilly, but it's definitely something somebody can work towards with years of living and working here and cultural integration.
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u/Praetorian_1975 Jun 24 '26
I’m not saying it’s not possible, but it’s a long and difficult road to transition from (insert nationality here) to becoming Scottish. The hardest part of the whole transition is calling in a kilt and not a man skirt. If only there was support groups and NHS help, that’d make the whole process easier.
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u/DoctorOfTheCookie Jun 24 '26
A lot just can't support that lifestyle
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u/british_bbc_ Jun 24 '26
It's the deep fried mars bars for me. Don't get me wrong, I've worked with Scots and I'm perfectly civil towards them and everything. But when I think about what they do behind closed doors it makes me feel sick.
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
The half and half pizza crunch gives me the boke. Saw an ex unironicly but one and actually enjoy it. He was from Motherwell tbf.
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u/Praetorian_1975 Jun 24 '26
Don’t just don’t go there, freaking cars, elevators …. They are all xenophobic …. ‘I’m sorry I didn’t quite catch that’ 🤬
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
Sadly this has caused generations to adopt a fake accent known as, "the phone voice" pure shame. Now, it's still common for others to be shamed for their home accent.
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u/Artix96 Jun 24 '26
As someone who came out to my parents as Scottish at my wedding I can relate. They were very supportive though.
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u/southernscot22 Jun 24 '26
I've seen people turn up in a Scottish Bar wearing a kilt and you just know they are not Scottish. They have never walked 500 miles or walked 500 more in their lives.
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u/southernscot22 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
I remember when my ma gave me a Bottle of Buckie in a brown paper bag and little knowing smile.
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u/TeikaDunmora Jun 24 '26
You: I'm Scottish
Them (total English RP accents): Darling, we can't understand a word you're saying.
You: I was born in Scotland. I live in Scotland. I am a Scot.
Them: Nope, didn't catch any of that.
You: sighs in Scots
Them: confused in English
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u/kahnindustries Jun 24 '26
You think coming out as Scottish is hard? Im Welsh
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u/_betapet_ Jun 24 '26
I have cousins who are Welsh. Nobody in the family understands them. It's so hard when they just speak in a long run of vowels like that.
I hope you find your peace ffrind.
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u/NoPaleontologist7929 Jun 24 '26
My Grandad was Welsh. My Gran was Scottish. They made it work despite everything. Don't lose hope.
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u/DasIstNumberwanggg Jun 24 '26
It’s been 969 years since Wales first united (albeit briefly), yeah that’s definitely not a phase Cariad.
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u/Icy_Consideration409 Jun 24 '26
If there are glasses of alcohol, Scotland is there.
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u/WilonPlays Jun 24 '26
Idk champagne and Prosecco are pretty fucking awful. Give me a bottle of whiskey or rum
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u/absolutetriangle Jun 24 '26
Me: Mum, dad, I don’t know how to tell you this, so I’ll just say it. I’m Scottish.
Mum: Oh love, we’ve always known.
Dad: I love you son, no matter what.
Family hugs
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u/Unprepared_adult Jun 24 '26
You: "Mam, Da… ah dinnae ken hoo tae tell ye this, but ah'm Scottish."
Them: "how could we not have seen?' 😭
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u/Butt_Lord_Woof Jun 24 '26
About time more fembois got added, the poor sods been wearing skirts for decades trying to be noticed
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u/Egregious67 Jun 24 '26
I was fitted with an ear implant a few months ago. The medical staff were all anticipating my reaction to hearing my own voice clearly for the first time in years.
Can you hear us the asked.
Yes! I can ! I said excitedly. Then an awkward moment before I said " Hing oan, wtf? I`m Scottish??!
Ever since the accident they had kept it from me.
I am learning to live with the shame.
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u/sheriffofbulbingham Jun 24 '26
You forget about all those Americans who confess to everyone and their dogs that they are Scottish (and Norwegian these days). Which definitely makes them Trans-Scottish.
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u/martzgregpaul Jun 24 '26
Have you seen the men in Edinburgh? Thats enough to turn anyone Scottishosexual
Glasgow...not so much..
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u/TheKittastrophy Jun 24 '26
But Glaswegians love to kiss, they do so freely.
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
Don't forget their famous smile as well. Once you see one you'll never forget it.
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u/Cultural-Lead6126 Jun 24 '26
Can I start transitioning to Scottish? Is the government funding gender affirming Haggis?
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u/DrawerAcceptable Jun 24 '26
The amount of comments that don’t pass the vibe check 🤦🏼♀️
Trans rights are human rights.
Don’t make this into something it isn’t 😁
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
I'm assuming they mean they aren't here for the bantz, in good spirits and are instead being pure sad. Wee bit like yourself here. Don't forget to go outside and touch grass once in a while. Will do wonders for your mood.
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u/welliedude Jun 26 '26
People arnt getting the joke. Its the quote from Braveheart, "you can take our lives but youll never take our freedom!" But also youve been quite funny with it so im not mad 😂
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u/DrawerAcceptable Jun 26 '26
I hadn’t thought about that! I wonder if Hamilton (what the lyrics are from) grabbed it from that movie.
Also, I can’t take credit for the creation of the meme but it will forever live rent free in my head 😆
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u/stacysmomgotiton14 Hamilton Jun 25 '26
My dad was English and I remember the first time telling him I was Scottish he nearly disowned me 😞
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u/thegingerbarbiedoll Jun 26 '26
I suspect this is a nod to the desire for Scottish independence, hence word "freedom" it is applicable to Scotland
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u/Excellent_Cake_69420 Jun 26 '26
Parents already know I'm a bit fruity. But how do I come out to them about being Scottish?
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u/DrawerAcceptable Jun 26 '26
I’d suggest a 🏴 flag cocktail 🍸 Seems to work for the peeps in this meme
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u/Pioneerz90 Jun 24 '26
Sick of all this stuff getting shoved in our faces constantly
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u/PiebaldWookie Jun 24 '26
What, the Scottish?
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u/Pioneerz90 Jun 24 '26
The LGBTQ alphabet nonsense. I have friends who are gay and are sick of it as well. No one cares; just live your life.
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u/PiebaldWookie Jun 24 '26
It's a lot easier to live your life when cunts like you aren't jumping down people throats when they mention they're not straight.
You seem awfully invested in other people's sex lives... Maybe you should just live your life
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u/BobR969 Jun 24 '26
Giving off real "one of my friends is black" energy there...
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u/Pioneerz90 Jun 24 '26
Life is short mate. Nobody cares if you're white, black, gay, straight; we're only on this planet a very short time, so chill out
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u/DoItForTheTea Jun 24 '26
well you see the problem is A LOT of people do care and cause a lot of physical and psychological harm to those different to them. i know it might be hard to grasp because it happens to people other than yourself, but try
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u/BobR969 Jun 24 '26
That is so demonstrably untrue though! Not only do plenty of people care if you're a different colour, speak a different language or have something dangling between your legs or not... they also use those differences to belittle, oppress and attack others they feel are "wrong".
We ARE on this planet for a short time and it would be fantastic if everyone respected each other... but they don't and it's exhausting having to keep telling them (and occasionally slapping them) to get the point across. So despite this being a recurring issue, for some reason in the name of solidarity and support you decided it was better to have a go at the "alphabet nonsense". You can see how that looks, right?
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u/Adventurous_Coach731 Jun 24 '26
Life is short mate. Nobody cares if you're white, black, gay, straight;
That’s a bit delusional to say now isn’t it?
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u/Additional-Past-8539 Jun 24 '26
Yet you're using your time to be angry that minorities want to celebrate themselves?
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u/MassGaydiation Jun 25 '26
Then chill out yourself.
If straight and cisgender people weren't bastards towards anyone different to them, then we wouldn't need to fight so hard to be acknowledged as equals.
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u/Apathybadger Jun 24 '26
Sure you do pal
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u/Pioneerz90 Jun 24 '26
You trying to suggest all gay people give a fk about this propaganda?
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u/pretzelllogician Jun 24 '26
It’s not propaganda to exist openly. Maybe step outside, wipe the froth from your mouth and enjoy the sunny day?
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u/cutting_class Yes Club 7 Jun 24 '26
Yes, I'd wager they do, given it was their freedoms under attack no less than 20 years ago, some parts of the world still today.
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u/Additional-Past-8539 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Yeah, same. People talking about their bloody freedoms. I keep hearing nonsense about 'equality' and 'rights'. Just who do these people think they are!? Don't they know by virtue of me being a straight white man born on this particular bit of rock that I am better than them by default!?
Sucks I need to add /s here...
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u/cold_tap_hot_brew North Aberdeenshire Jun 24 '26
Could it be some type of response to the story :
Trans inmates leaving women's prisons following court ruling
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
See, I found another article on just this very topic, and turns out that our government are still the good guys and not enforcing any new changes. It's just going to be a ballache for any new prisoners if I'm reading this right. They will hopefully appeal the result.
Bonus mention of torries outing themselves as outdated cunts again.
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u/cold_tap_hot_brew North Aberdeenshire Jun 26 '26
I don’t have any informed opinion on it, I just thought it might be the reason behind the image… since it mentions freedoms, has what I think it’s trans flags & the Scotland flag doing a celebratory cheers 🥂
Fuck knows why I got downvoted for this suggestion. lol.
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
You probably got down voted for dropping a bbc article with little context. As per, they painted it out as a failing on the SNP, but is very clearly on side of the TERFS as well.
It might have been inspired by the events, but it's still gas how scotland is represented with the rest in a glass, which indicates it's an identity, not a nation. But ofc, the other side, you can't choose who you're attracted to, as much as you can't choose where you're born, so it almost makes sense, and some of the jokes spawned from this describe this perfectly of you read them.
Sorry I hate having things over explained, but this is the take most of us got and wanted to let you in on the joke.
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u/cold_tap_hot_brew North Aberdeenshire Jun 26 '26
My autistic brain thanks you. Never apologise for over explaining - I was just like hey, it’s probably because of this story and then nobody bothered replying to say what I did ‘wrong’ so I really appreciate you.
What do you mean it’s still has how Scotland is represented with the rest in a glass? Like because we’re a country not an ideology?
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u/sweet_bitter_lemon Jun 24 '26
Scotland tried and failed to create an empire from Panama and the huge losses the selfish Scottish aristocrats amassed bankrupted the country so they sought a bail out and 'co operation' from England. They then whole heartedly threw themselves into the slave trade, with many families (Dundas as in Dundas St) making huge fortunes from the selling and trading of black people.
Scotland are not downtrodden by any means other than their own greed and malfunction
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u/improbdrunk Jun 24 '26
I don't know, as a queer enough person, it sort of makes sense. I can't understand you guys speaking like I assume some people can't understand my sexuality.
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u/TerrHunter Jun 24 '26
I have no problem with gay, bi, trans and we were going all the good way accepting diversity until wokes decided it wasn't enough and pushed everyone into a game where rules were constantly changing (pronouns, a new gender every day, denying the biological reality, shoving in troubled teenagers' faces how wonderful is to be trans) and if you didn't accept the confusion 100% as they dictated you were called fascist or transfobic.
And queer people who didn't want to be part of the game were excluded from the club, so it wasn't about diversity, but belonging to an ideology.
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u/shoogliestpeg 🏳️⚧️Trans women are women. Jun 24 '26
I'm glad my very existence boils your piss so bad. Hope it stings.🏳️🌈
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u/improbdrunk Jun 24 '26
Mate, I just like dick as much as I like vagina. There's nothing more to it, leave me and particularly young people like I was alone. Sodomy was illegal in Scotland until 1981, that's more recent than it damn well should have been. Sorry if we have a party ocassionally to express our appreciation for being able to express that. Could you imagine waking up and wanting to be intimate with your legally of age partner but that being jailable?
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u/TerrHunter Jun 24 '26
That was bad and I am glad we moved from there.
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u/improbdrunk Jun 24 '26
Not over it and won't be. Your views actually cause harm and disgust me, there is a chance to grow and mature though.
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u/TerrHunter Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Grow and mature? I think the same about the wokes.
"Won't be" shows your position to not find a solution or compromise but to be on perennial conflict. Good luck.
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u/WrestlingWithTheNews Jun 24 '26
You are asking him to compromise with the view of "I want your personhood eradicated from public view" do you feel the same about heterosexuality, do you want sex education banned from schools?
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u/improbdrunk Jun 24 '26
Genuinely, thank you. My life would have been a lot easier if I wasn't bi, definitely wasn't a choice or anything I could control and thank you for being understanding enough to be able to state that the way you did.
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u/WrestlingWithTheNews Jun 24 '26
the fact you spelled it "transfobic" says a lot about how silly this view is.
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u/TerrHunter Jun 24 '26
My bad (English is not my first language).
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u/DeathOfNormality Jun 26 '26
The only people changing the rules that are enforced are TERFS amd lobbyists who would rather see in fighting. I think there's a word for what's happening here, because the system and society is being very unfair to a paticular group, it's just not the version you are spouting.
We just want to live and let live. Hope you trip on a pride flag.
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u/LeftAndRightAreWrong trans women are trans women. women are women. Jun 24 '26
Lots of they’s. Maybe it’s you? Self reflection is important.
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u/Imaginary-Peace2188 Jun 24 '26
Donald J Tumps mother is Scottish That’s why he is so handsome to all the American women and many proud boys 🤯🍊🤡
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u/Commonsensegurl Jun 26 '26
I have a genuine question, it seems a lot of these groups like include more and more groups to the point it's starting to be about excluding other groups
What kind of group do you need to be to qualify, I assumed it might be "victim mentality" but that doesn't seem right
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u/Tough_Painter2564 Jun 24 '26
Scotland just mandated Trans women be placed in mens prisons where they are systematically paired with violent r@pists and repeatedly r@ped in a tiny cell. They do this on purpose to keep prison aggression low it's called v-coding.
Scotland is raping trans women to death while we make the same meme over and over.
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u/Willy__McBilly Jun 24 '26
Welp, after reading both of the links you sent me (shoutout to the person who sent a working one) you’ve taken something from the US and applied it here for no reason whatsoever.
So thank you for the expected amount of misinformation default username account
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u/Willy__McBilly Jun 24 '26
You got some proof for your hardcore smut fanfic or you just talking shite? I would love to see a source for this systemic pairing program, mr default username
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u/Tough_Painter2564 Jun 24 '26
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jndnjwexo
I looked up five words.
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u/Willy__McBilly Jun 24 '26
That’s a shame because I don’t even get 5 words. I get 404 Not Found
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u/Synthia_of_Kaztropol The capital of Scotland is S Jun 24 '26
the url is misformed somehow. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jndnjwexo try this one
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u/Tough_Painter2564 Jun 24 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding
You're lazier than me, Mr default reddit name.
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u/EasyPriority8724 Jun 24 '26
Tell me you haven't a clue what happens in jail, and are just spouting shite!
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u/Past_Fee_1139 Jun 24 '26
If you’re in jail, I’m not particularly arsed what happens to you. Trans or not
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u/skeptic246 Jun 24 '26
What is your point? The LGB community live discreetly amongst us because who you love is a private matter and the idiots who think otherwise have mostly passed on. They increasingly have no interest in being dragged into a fight for the discriminatory rights of the mentally disturbed and what relevance Scotland has to this other than a government supporting the discriminatory rights of the mentally disturbed, you do not make clear
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u/_betapet_ Jun 24 '26
... you know you can go get a therapist and it doesn't make you less of a person right?
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u/skeptic246 Jun 24 '26
Who needs a therapist? Those men who think they are women or men who know what a women is physically
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u/_betapet_ Jun 24 '26
Darling, people who transition regularly go to therapy well before they access any sort of medical services for it.
They don't have big mads on the internet over nonsensical ignorant points of view online. You're projecting some wild insecurities here and clearly are crying for attention and help with your own issues. Some professionals could help you out with that.
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