A lack of respect for equality laws
It’s shocking to see MPs (or Senators and Representatives) ranting about the wickedness of colleagues who know and say that people can’t change sex. It’s like theocracy without the theo part.
Of course parents who “support their kids through transition” are irrevocably harming them. The idea that people can change sex is a mistake, and physically acting on it is of course harmful.
Osborne is the one using dangerous language, not Helen Joyce. It’s dangerous to talk dreamily about “supporting kids through transition” as if surgery to alter genitals were like getting a driver’s license as opposed to mutilation. Encouraging children to destroy their genitalia in pursuit of a magic identity is what’s dangerous.
Recommending a book shows a lack of respect?
I have no words.
Which is why we have institutionalised such ideas as age of consent. Otherwise, any tantrum-throwing child could make life-altering decisions with regard to his/her own life, which could very easily affect the lives of close relatives.
Decisions should be made by those who have to deal with the consequences; not those who don’t and can just walk away. Not a bad rule in life.
Once again: The assertion that people have gendered souls is unproven. It’s equally possible (if not more so) that being “transgendered” is the result of a mental problem or having been brainwashed by a cult or of having a fetish.
This being the case, all this talk of “affirmation only” responses to so-caled “trans-kids” is dangerous.
They speak so confidently, and so self-righteously about something they can’t define, let alone prove.
At the end of the day I have zero problem with accommodating those few, very sick people, who are suffering so badly from gender dysphoria that they feel the need to sculpt their bodies (outside and inside) and to imitate the stereotypical mannerisms of the “gender” they wish themselves to be. But not to the point of lying to them that they actually ARE that gender/sex.
Because politely indulging these people has opened the door to all the snow-balling of atrocities of the past few years. Including planting in the minds of children that they might be in the wrong body.
Unrelated: I was on the bus in the fairly big city that I live in and two guys got on. Ten years ago they would have just looked like garden-variety obnoxious, creepy nerds, like the Frank Rossitano character from “30-Rock.” Except both of them were wearing [poorly applied] make-up and sporting very large breast implants. God bless ’em but they were loud and brimming with self-confidence.
Where is Elizabeth Loftus, now that we need her again?
“But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion”.
These days it just takes convincing them that they’re being kind and respectful. Religion-to-go.
The assertion that people have gendered souls is not just unproven but also every bit as absurd as the claim that people have souls full stop. It’s unproven and it’s not even likely. We might as well start claiming people are really bananas, zucchini, birds, chairs, Arkansas.
“Gun control will make law-abiding citizens into criminals overnight”…
They are criminals; it’s the laws that are wrong. You are harming your kids; it’s the supposedly conventional wisdom that is wrong.
Wasn’t Stonewall’s misrepresentation of the law an even greater “lack of respect for equality laws?” And if your understanding of “equality law” is based on Stonewall’s false version, that would be disrespectful of the actual law too, right?
It’s the entire T+MRA agenda that constitutes a profound “lack of respect for equality laws.” The equality laws have single-sex protections for women and girls explicitly baked into the fabric of the equality laws.