I listened to the verdict today and yes there are winners. We women are the winners in the face of a deluded and dangerous ideology where a few men tried to tell us they could be us. Well they can’t. Now we need to clear out all the taxpayer-funded groups, documents and propaganda that say they can.
I like the article - but 10 years ago it would have been as incomprehensible to us as say an internet address put at the end of a sit com in the 1970s. The idea you could declare yourself the opposite sex was and is bonkers.
During my professional career I looked after some trans people. I have no doubt they were truely trans. All of them from their first memories were gripped by a fierce and unshakable belief that they had been born into the wrong body and suffered miserable adolescent years until sometime in adulthood the brave ones took action. These trans people were notable for not only wanting rid of the wrong "bits" but by then disappearing into the undergrowth of every day life to just live the lives they had always wanted to live, after surgery.
The first two such people I encountered I had no idea they had transitioned until the (in those days) fat paper case notes fell open as I put them on my desk prior to asking the person to come in, and in the second case he told me his story because he thought I should know in case it affected treatment. Those two were unusally female to male, but then I encountered male to female.
I recall speaking to one male to female trans person who said "I'm not a woman like you, but now I've had surgery I am the person I was always meant to be." which I found interesting.
What has happened I believe- appart from Stonewall latching onto something to keep the money rolling in after gay equality was achieved- is that men(mostly) who donned wigs, dresses and lippy at the weekend have now decided actually they are women and have behaved like...er entitled men in pursuit of that aim.
I wonder what these people would do if the Taleban road into town?
I think you out your finger on it when you mentioned Stonewall. They needed a campaign after the success of same sex marriage to justify their existence. Hence the mantra that “trans women are women”. No one wanted to stop trans people living as they wished and loving who they wanted, as JK Rowling put it. It was the cynical politicisation of transgenderism, and the insistence that biological sex is either a “spectrum” or irrelevant, or that belief in human biology is transphobic, is what caused all this misery and anger. The insistence that make bodied transwomen should participate in women’s sporting events was the last straws. Hopefully it is all over now and trans can have some peace. I wish them well.
I listened to the verdict today and yes there are winners. We women are the winners in the face of a deluded and dangerous ideology where a few men tried to tell us they could be us. Well they can’t. Now we need to clear out all the taxpayer-funded groups, documents and propaganda that say they can.
I like the article - but 10 years ago it would have been as incomprehensible to us as say an internet address put at the end of a sit com in the 1970s. The idea you could declare yourself the opposite sex was and is bonkers.
During my professional career I looked after some trans people. I have no doubt they were truely trans. All of them from their first memories were gripped by a fierce and unshakable belief that they had been born into the wrong body and suffered miserable adolescent years until sometime in adulthood the brave ones took action. These trans people were notable for not only wanting rid of the wrong "bits" but by then disappearing into the undergrowth of every day life to just live the lives they had always wanted to live, after surgery.
The first two such people I encountered I had no idea they had transitioned until the (in those days) fat paper case notes fell open as I put them on my desk prior to asking the person to come in, and in the second case he told me his story because he thought I should know in case it affected treatment. Those two were unusally female to male, but then I encountered male to female.
I recall speaking to one male to female trans person who said "I'm not a woman like you, but now I've had surgery I am the person I was always meant to be." which I found interesting.
What has happened I believe- appart from Stonewall latching onto something to keep the money rolling in after gay equality was achieved- is that men(mostly) who donned wigs, dresses and lippy at the weekend have now decided actually they are women and have behaved like...er entitled men in pursuit of that aim.
I wonder what these people would do if the Taleban road into town?
I think you out your finger on it when you mentioned Stonewall. They needed a campaign after the success of same sex marriage to justify their existence. Hence the mantra that “trans women are women”. No one wanted to stop trans people living as they wished and loving who they wanted, as JK Rowling put it. It was the cynical politicisation of transgenderism, and the insistence that biological sex is either a “spectrum” or irrelevant, or that belief in human biology is transphobic, is what caused all this misery and anger. The insistence that make bodied transwomen should participate in women’s sporting events was the last straws. Hopefully it is all over now and trans can have some peace. I wish them well.