Is the tide turning regarding gender ideology?

I really hope so. My kids are still young and oblivious and I am hoping that this has all been shown to be the most hideous and dangerous load of brainwashing by the time they are in their teens.

As a child I was a “tomboy” in that I wasn’t interested in stereotypically girly games, loved running, climbing trees, catching insects and getting dirty. I loved George from the Famous Five and had my hair cut short, loved it when people thought I was a boy. Thankfully my parents are sensible anyway but I often wonder if I had been born 30 years later to a different family I could have been labelled and persuaded to transition.

I’m now an entirely average heterosexual woman and so unbelievably grateful every day for the female body that has allowed me to grow and breastfeed my children. I still don’t wear much make up and prefer trousers!

At a work training thing recently in the US (I work for Us company in the U.K.) we were all forced to listen to a lecture from a transwoman about the “power of storytelling”, and the story was about how they knew they were a woman because they loved “twirly dresses”. The US audience lapped it up, but there was plenty of eye rolling from the U.K. contingent.

I work in an industry that involves gender ideology and all I can say is that it seems like a fad from last year. It's rarely mentioned.

Weight loss seems like a bigger interest so far

You are comparing GC women to child abusers and rapists now? I have seen it all, truly, unless I have misunderstood you.

Sorry this had to be your first response, op. But not really surprised 🙄

Nope, we are not hiding away any more. This affects women and children everywhere, so it can be on the main board.

Yes. When the Cass Review came out, I was able to have a sensible conversation with some friends. Only a couple of years ago, they were calling themselves allies and me a TERF.

I now need to have that discussion with my young adult DC without eye rolling.

How quickly things change, just 3 weeks later, turns out we aren't all bigots after all

What's the likelihood of this being reversed in Scotland in the reasonably near future? Or will it just have to eventually become non enforceable?

Next month, Scotland, which is heading full speed into batshittery, will be enacting a hate speech law, designed or protect dudes in dresses and makes no mention of women and their protected characteristics. So in Scotland, if someone says you misgendered them, the police will come after you. Women, get out while you still can.

Yep. We are totally fucked.

Yabu to post here when there's a topic for this.

Especially with the SNP being in the vanguard for anti GC views.

See how well it’s going for the popularity of the SNP

Conversely, I'm hopeful that if a Labour government does get in, a lot of this will, in fact, die down. It's much easier for people to rally support & say being gc is a right wing concept when there's a hated (to a percentage of people) right wing government in power. The Tories, and some of their supporters, are using this as one of their few issues that the vast majority of the population agree with.

I agree on those around 20 to 30. Younger and older, another so sure.

No op. The tide isn’t turning. It’s actually getting worse and much more dangerous for women.

I just feel like I live in a surreal parallel universe where democratic governments are actually legislating to support this utter insanity and women are increasingly losing their political voice.

When Labour get in, I dread to think what will become of us and our rights and dignities. Gilead here we come.

No, not an S, and mine isn't too bad. Was great to hear about Jo Phoenix's win at the OU.

I don't think there is any shift among younger adults.

There’s a definite shift, I agree. Though with the fact that any man can say he’s a woman and therefore be ‘allowed’ into any female space, we’ve still got a long way to go.

Until biological sex is a protected characteristic in the Equality Act, women’s rights are significantly eroded.

Its longer than that isnt it, decades and decades.

I say this on lots of threads so am boring, I dont wear make up (hardly ever), dont wear dresses or skirts, dont shave my legs, Im not 'feminine', dont like pink, never played really with 'girls toys' or other stereotypical games/presentation

Am I 'gender non conforming', yes and no. Im just me, no label, not that different from most women to be honest.

Its a nonsense term to describe likes and dislikes

I also get annoyed when I see the term 'gender they're born into'. No one is born into a theoretical construct that someone develops for themselves!!!! Its not possible.

Quite.

https://gendercriticalwoman.blog/2023/05/21/transgender-movement-fascism/

‘The paper outlines the strategy of the transgender movement and it’s inherently anti-democratic tactics. Instead of winning hearts and minds they have appealed to authority, change laws, often by stealth, bypassing a public conversation. Their appeal is based on a fallacious victimhood; deployed to guilt and shame people into accepting their minority world view. This is combined with a suppression of debate and repression of alternative perspectives.’

https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/04/10/i-supported-trans-ideology-until-i-couldnt-anymore/