Gender Critical Hospital Patient Stirs Transphobic Hate After Mistaking Cis Woman as Trans

A woman in the UK launched a transphobic firestorm on twitter after misidentifying a fellow patient on a female ward as a transgender woman- She was not.

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One patient, a woman who uses the twitter handle @Gillyism and proclaims herself to be a proud gender critical- a person who believes transgender people do not deserve to self identify or occupy spaces according to their gender- wound up in a British hospital after falling ill earlier this week.

After being admitted to the hospital, the woman explained to her twitter followers that she was placed on an “All female (Sex-based) ward” to receive care for her ailments. Unfortunately, things quickly went awry when she believed she heard a visitor refer to a nearby patient, on the same ward, as “Albert.”