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[–]Femaleisnthateful 56 insightful - 1 fun56 insightful - 0 fun57 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think the UK has peaked more so than North America. The mass exodus at the Tavistock clinic was hard for the general public to ignore.

[–]EvaWumben 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The US in particular got off to a bad start with the religious right here pitching a fit about bathrooms. They were so rabid it soured a lot of people and got the TWAW thing kicked off here as a response, mainly. We don't have a Tavistock, but enough people keep bragging that they got on our government healthcare to transition due to "discrimination", and it'll go the same direction.

[–]Lyssa 20 insightful - 2 fun20 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I think it's a problem that in the US the main opposition to TWAW has been (still is?) from religious nutjobs like the Duggars. This is different in the UK so they are making more progress now. And thank goodness for JK Rowling.

[–]Penguinberri 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah the political landscape over here is very different to America. Plus I think even our bathroom debate is different. American toilet stalls have almost no privacy where as in the UK our doors have very little gaps and there was already alot of single use/unisex loos. I think that's why when the "bathroom debate" was raging on we didn't get it.

[–]EvaWumben 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It really is. Few want to be associated with that sort here in the US, but honestly, the more vocal the Kids Who Live On Tumblr TRAs get, the more people are really starting to wonder.