SANITYSchools in England told by government to record sex as described on birth certificate only on official data submissions. Do not record “gender identity” or anything other than male or female.

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[–]Wanderingthehalls 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I think that Mumsnet allowing discussion of trans ideology is partly responsible for that. Even though any discussion on it was shoved off into it's own tiny forum and anything related to AGP used to get deleted, it was still one of the few very large forums that didn't completely stifle discussion. Considering the vast majority of users are women who want to get pregnant are pregnant or had given birth not too long before joining, it's membership is largely based around people with shared biological reality. It peaked a lot of British women early on and gave them a platform to keep talking about it. The threads by women who's husbands transed after their marriage is eye-opening for people who haven't ever considered how families are really affected.

It's where a lot of funding for some of the legal cases around trans issues has come from, as women who might have been frightened of being publicly out as 'terfs' were happy to quietly donate money to people taking cases or being prosecuted. Graham Linehan, Konstantin Kishin and other well known-ish people at the fore of the fight back post there at times. It's where a lot of political campaigns on local and national levels start off. And UK politicians know mumsnet is a hive of floating voters, so aren't always keen to dismiss it.

It's why TRAs needed to have control of sites like Reddit, Twitter, etc. And have tried hard to get mumsnet to completely shut down it's discussion, or campaigned advertisers to get them to withdraw advertising when mumsnet didn't capitulate enough. Allowing thousands of people to quietly discuss their forebodings without fear of losing friends or even possibly their income means that their nonsense falls down fast.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Mumsnet has, since the days of Gordon Brown, become quite influential in Westminster, so it isn’t surprising that an issue that is discussed there is raised in Westminster. If Mumsnet had gone full-on Munchausen’s about children there could have been an entirely different outcome to the debate - especially with the way that Labour has mishandled the issue and has some actual zealots in amongst the Parliamentary party. Luckily, the women at Mumsnet were sceptical and dug into the issue when the mainstream media was cheerleading it. It really wasn’t until the Nolan podcast that the BBC broke ranks and started to question the Stonewall orthodoxy.

Obviously there were other places for sceptics to discuss, but Mumsnet is probably the most high profile and very difficult to dismiss as far-right NAZIs, which is what they’ve done to everyone else that’s stuck their head up or you know driven them to mental illness like Glinner.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Luckily, the women at Mumsnet were sceptical and dug into the issue when the mainstream media was cheerleading it.

I supported transgenderism myself until I ended up spending a considerable amount of time with two trans identifying individuals. The way it's presented, that it's a tiny minority of people who just want to live their own lives, is compelling. What reasonable person would be against that. But obviously that's misleading. Transgenderism is a ridiculous social fad sucking people in and making them absolutely miserable, while the ideological activists shit on women and homosexuals, and anyone who dare question them.

[–]The_Best_Yak_Ever 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

This. This is so my experience with modern trans craze types. I knew of one trans person before the nonsense took off. He transitioned to she, and then went on with her life. I know the family was devastated… something that always bothered me, but this person wasn’t out there constantly blabbing about it. They just wanted to move on.

My wife met a couple of the TRAs back in 2018 when it was really starting to blow up. What struck me is what losers these people were. They talk gender woo nonstop, go to the gender clinics for hormones and lead otherwise pretty miserable lives feeling like everyone is against them. I actually tried explaining once, that it’s just that no one cares about them and the constant badgering of everyone turns people off. So does the colorful attire, questionable hygiene, and single issue focus.

I don’t want to sound like a conceited asshole, but I’m a good looking guy. I’m tall, fit, and am used to getting plenty of attention. I bring this up, because what I instantly noticed was that not a single person in this odd little coven would be considered a 3 even on the best of days. They smelled bad, were overweight, wore tacky clothes, spoke in that awful “man impersonating a woman’s” voice, and had generally poor social skills… It struck me that it was all just copium. They were just regular losers trying to compensate and find an easy way to social success, instead of doing the work to get fit, learn to socialize, and strive to enjoy the lives they have instead of turning complaining about their lot into their entire personality…

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

lead otherwise pretty miserable lives feeling like everyone is against them

That really hits a chord. They spend their time imagining all sorts of victimization. We took a trans identified girl on a family vacation and we traveled some real redneck parts of the country. Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody gave a shit. She worked herself up into fits worrying about imagined hate and violence that never manifested. It seems like a terrible way to go through life.

They were just regular losers trying to compensate and find an easy way to social success, instead of doing the work to get fit, learn to socialize,

I had thought of that too. Both of them are pretty plain people. Unattractive, unintelligent, and generally uninteresting. They adopted an identity that made them special. Although I'm not sure I agree they can simply fix it. Improve themselves, sure, but they only have so much to work with. Like lipstick on a pig.

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

Touché… it actually does make me feel for them in that sense. Like, the ones I knew suffered from the same reality. No matter what you do, you’re a 79 Toyota Celica, and no amount of work will ever make you a Ferrari… but I have to imagine there are lots of average looking people living great lives, free of the self-imposed misery of the victimhood lifestyle. It’d be really depressing if not.

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sad, isn't it? People doomed to be mediocre, or worse, their entire lives. Some win the genetic lottery and some don't. The transgender ideology is innately self terminating however, when everyone can be special by identifying as special, nobody is special, and worse, perverts and sickos denigrate the entire 'brand.' Not entirely unlike why stores often rather trash food than give it away to those in need, they don't want to associate their product with poverty. And transgenderism has got a lot worse associations than that.

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

A friend and I were just talking about this… she’s someone who’s stunning… but we were talking about how to us, the world seems so friendly. Like, in our interactions with strangers from wait staff to cashiers, people are just generally nice to us! It’s easy to believe that the world, or at least, our place in it, is a decent place full of generally good people. When we brought in a guy friend of mine, we were shocked to learn what it’s like to “be invisible.”

I think when you dress up and act like a deranged clown, already primed to believe the world is chock full of sadists and bullies, it becomes the perfect self fulfilling prophecy. Paranoia will always find fuel to send itself into orbit. And when you believe the world is generally cruel, and look and talk like a crazy person, you will see exactly what you’re looking for, driving yourself further and further away from society and happiness, and closer and closer to the true social pariahs… those associations you mentioned. I think you’re right. Such a chain of behavior is ultimately self destructive and self terminating.

Jeez… now I feel sad. It’s not exactly comforting to ponder how you dodged a genetic bullet to the brain pan by sheer fucking luck, and how it colored your worldview. There but for the grace of god go I… dressed in a skirt… and demanding to be treated like a pretty princess… *shudders *

[–]Vulptexghost fox girl ^w^ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Caught you admitting it again.