Lurked a while in GC, but I lurk a little everywhere. I saw quite a few off-ish posts. I assume that with the nature of the internet, and with how passionate that people can get about topics that hit them on a personal level that we're bound to see extremist views no matter where we go. I was under the impression that GC promoted the safety of women AND the children that we may or may not produce, so those particular posts are distressing. I understand traumatic events coloring our viewpoints, but when we're discussing the abortion of a male (for being male) or insisting on a perceived justifiable harm in any way to a male child/female child/any child at all, I'm going to have to slam the brakes. It's that kind of vindictive, hateful ass attitude that loses me. The reason why I have so much trouble with the trans/gender identity movement in the first place is because I feel like it's not only encroaching on biological women's rights, but that it's predatory towards children and those considered to be under the age of consent. It's nonsense fantasy shit, when there's far cooler fantasy shit to be discussed instead that won't result in being a sterile shadow of former self. Digressing a slight bit, but when your country will not allow you to purchase cigarettes or alcohol under the age of 21, but will allow parents to make permanently damaging decisions for their children with hormones and surgery.. we have a problem. Parents that buy into this shit are negligent at best. I've described it to friends before in opinion as looking almost like Munchausen-by-Proxy with some cases, and like someone having a lap dog that they dress up with others. They're not dolls. They're not social bonus points. They're people. Tiny people that make terrible fucking decisions until their brains/decision-making hubs are fully developed, and still some bad ones after that because of human nature and life circumstances. I don't know who made those posts, or who has internalized feelings like this but we still have to take responsibility on our end. Why in the actual fuck would we celebrate aborting males? Why celebrate abortion at all outside of a necessity? It's not a we giveth life and so shall we take it away thing. You're not walking out of that procedure unscathed and it can fuck you up, your body up, on so many levels waiting too long to have it done. Better ways are available to gain the upper hand than being the mirror of the pieces of shit we want protections from.