@EdwardOakenfull@sharrond62 If I understand you correctly, Denby was fine until 2024.when Labour won the election and Denby collapsed.
This is patently ridiculous you laughable buffoon.
My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If that’s the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.
I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children who’ve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isn’t), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they aren’t) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)
Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). It’s profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.
I don’t believe anyone, adult or child, is ‘born in the wrong body.’ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if they’re in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men don’t belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.
@PaulSmi72262450@Baroness_Nichol@ReasonBites@CheckCharlieB I disagree with this. I believe the gradual disintegration of UK really took off from 2014. Johnson, Truss and May all brought about the lack of trust in politics we see today.
£37bn budgeted for Test & Trace.
£9bn written off on PPE.
£203m to PPE Medpro.
Brexit: GDP ~4% lower long-term.
Fraudulent Covid loans to drug dealers.
But please, tell me again how Britain’s fiscal problem is pensioners and disabled people receiving enough money to live on...
@fem_mb@MaxNordau How is it that Carlson, who appears to have the intelligence of a fence post, is able to disseminate his mindless garbage and be believed?
It's astonishing to me that there are people who will write ad nauseam about how feminism and academic texts that hardly anyone has read, ie, Judith Butler, are responsible for men claiming to be women and forcing themselves into spaces where women and children are naked - while ignoring the influence of the most widely consumed form of media in the world - pornography.
The concept of a "girl cock" or "gock" as these men call it, didn't come from Simone de Beauvoir. These men didn't read the massive tome titled "The Second Sex" (not gender, ahem), and it didn't come from Butler's obtuse word salad, either.
What lies behind the transgender/transsexual movement has always been the determination of the male sexual drive, and beyond the profits to be made and the observable homophobia, first and foremost at its bare bones is the ugly hatred of women by men with sexual pathologies.
These men dress up as women and mimic us because they have for a long time watched pornography depicting women being degraded. In their actions, they imagine themselves as the humiliated women they see in porn, and they are telling us out loud what they want to do to us. To humiliate, dehumanize, and degrade us.
They get support from the highest institutions of society, including the WHO and the APA.
I wake up every day angry about this, but also, that this isn't obvious to everyone.