I’m surprised that this hasn’t been discussed in more detail on here to be honest.
The growing voice and influence of the “trans lobby” is getting more and more mainstream it seems, with dissenters and opponents getting all sorts of abuse and cancelling.
If people’s desires and actions are not affecting others, live and let live. But the whole debate is a lot more intricate than that and in the US there have been some recent bills/laws passed that have been deemed “anti-trans”. The basis of the laws that I can see are the fact that body changing treatments should be withheld from children and trans women (men) should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
You can identify as whatever you wish, hell, nobber identifies as a human being, but just because you feel that you are something you are not, does not mean that others have to accept the absurdity of it. The decision to change appearance and identity via medical means can only and should only be made available to adults who are capable of making rational and mature decisions. There should be medical assistance available to the very very small minority of genuine intersex people but not to kids.
As always real women will be the losers in all this, especially in the world of sports, where already many men have taken records, won trophies and in certain circumstances beaten the living shit out of real women in contact sports.
No matter what you feel you are, you are factually the same sex/gender as you were born. Feel free to pretend and identify as you wish, you have that right, just don’t expect everyone else, and expect it to be legally mandated, to agree with it and accept it.
Thoughts?
The growing voice and influence of the “trans lobby” is getting more and more mainstream it seems, with dissenters and opponents getting all sorts of abuse and cancelling.
If people’s desires and actions are not affecting others, live and let live. But the whole debate is a lot more intricate than that and in the US there have been some recent bills/laws passed that have been deemed “anti-trans”. The basis of the laws that I can see are the fact that body changing treatments should be withheld from children and trans women (men) should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.
You can identify as whatever you wish, hell, nobber identifies as a human being, but just because you feel that you are something you are not, does not mean that others have to accept the absurdity of it. The decision to change appearance and identity via medical means can only and should only be made available to adults who are capable of making rational and mature decisions. There should be medical assistance available to the very very small minority of genuine intersex people but not to kids.
As always real women will be the losers in all this, especially in the world of sports, where already many men have taken records, won trophies and in certain circumstances beaten the living shit out of real women in contact sports.
No matter what you feel you are, you are factually the same sex/gender as you were born. Feel free to pretend and identify as you wish, you have that right, just don’t expect everyone else, and expect it to be legally mandated, to agree with it and accept it.
Thoughts?