Where does the British public stand on transgender rights?

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[–]jet199 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This basically shows most people still think transgender=transsexual. When you point out transgender usually means someone playing dress up with no surgery suddenly the answers completely change.

[–]filbs111 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

These are such poor questions (if they want to get to the truth) Whether transgender women are women depends on how someone defines "woman". If you force my hand, especially if i realise it's being asked in the context of the government, i'll say no. Should you be able to change your legal gender more easily? There shouldn't be a concept of legal gender unless it means sex. Even then, what is the point of legal gender? We are all supposed to be equal under the law. Are we not?

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Gender is not the same as sex.

Define woman= xx chromosomes. Men, xy chromosomes.

[–]filbs111 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When I was growing up, it was taboo to say the word sex, because it also refers to a "rude" act. People would say "gender" when they meant "sex". The idea that sex (the classification, not the act) and gender referred to different concepts was not commonly held by the general population - those whose vote implies some kind of collective consent to the laws that get passed - so wherever "gender" exists in the law, this is the way in which it should be interpreted, at least by default.