To have not lied to DS about trans actor in Last Christmas?

As I say, I'm GC, I don't believe in gender woo but at the same time, I am not so bothered by the sight of a man dressed as a woman that I am bothered by seeing one dressed as a cardiologist. I think that trans people need their own spaces, so Isla Bryant and his ilk need not to be in the women's estate. However, some of the people on this thread are almost as extreme as the TRAs.

It's been probably a whole day without a anti-trans post on this so I guess we got to put up some numbers. Some people have way to much time on their hands to care about other people's lives 🙄

As I say, I'm GC, I don't believe in gender woo but at the same time, I am not so bothered by the sight of a man dressed as a woman that I am bothered by seeing one dressed as a cardiologist. I think that trans people need their own spaces, so Isla Bryant and his ilk need not to be in the women's estate. However, some of the people on this thread are almost as extreme as the TRAs.

Oh dear. Did you just say "opposite sex", with regard to trans people? They won't like that.

Sex is a wibbly wobbly spectrum, did you not realise?

Some of the comments on this thread are harmful to the GC cause, because they are actually proving the TRAs' point. It's one thing to not want trans people in spaces designed for the opposite sex. It's quite another to complain about their very existence.

Some of the comments on this thread are harmful to the GC cause, because they are actually proving the TRAs' point. It's one thing to not want trans people in spaces designed for the opposite sex. It's quite another to complain about their very existence.

Ah, don't you know that this is the most significant issue affecting women, globally? More so than, say, FGM, reproductive rights, violence against women, rape, discrimination, gender based poverty? After all, how can women in Yemen achieve some (e)quality of life if we have trans people? Have you not been on the FWR board (or whatever it's now called)?

It’s not.
“I wish I could do my make up that well”
“I wish I could walk in heels like that”
“You’re so beautiful”
“You’re more of a woman than I’ll ever be”
“All I noticed was how beautiful you are”

This kind of gushing sycophancy is reserved for men, exclusively.

Because it doesn't matter. Why does it affect you how people identify? It doesn't affect trans people that you don't identify as trans.

You truthfully answered a question. Your DC were fine with your answer, so why do you need to ask if YABU @DungOnATwig ?

So trans actors should just not be cast in movies then?

Ask?

You are right to explain that actor started life as a male - I like to be honest as well - but the "being someone they are not" is offensive to trans people and their loved ones. That is nót explaining the facts to your 11 year old, it is interpreting them and thus imprinting on your son. I would've said something like " he felt being a woman and decided to transition". Then wait for your 11 year old to process this information and start asking more questions.

You are right to explain that actor started life as a male - I like to be honest as well - but the "being someone they are not" is offensive to trans people and their loved ones. That is nót explaining the facts to your 11 year old, it is interpreting them and thus imprinting on your son. I would've said something like " he felt being a woman and decided to transition". Then wait for your 11 year old to process this information and start asking more questions.

You are right to explain that actor started life as a male - I like to be honest as well - but the "being someone they are not" is offensive to trans people and their loved ones. That is nót explaining the facts to your 11 year old, it is interpreting them and thus imprinting on your son. I would've said something like " he felt being a woman and decided to transition". Then wait for your 11 year old to process this information and start asking more questions.

Sorry, probably being dense. I’m not sure what your question is?

As soon as I read wokeness, it puts me very much in mind of Nigel Farage, for example and his followers. That’s usually enough for me to dismiss that person’s opinions and I lose any interest in their arguments.

Ask?

This. Can’t believe someone would miss out on plays, films, tv because they happen to have a trans actor.
Do they apply the same to all of the arts and literature and avoid anything created by anyone whose views/opinions/ideology you disagree with?
That would result in a very empty life indeed.

Or is it just trans-people they object to?

Sorry, probably being dense. I’m not sure what your question is?

As soon as I read wokeness, it puts me very much in mind of Nigel Farage, for example and his followers. That’s usually enough for me to dismiss that person’s opinions and I lose any interest in their arguments.

Ask?

But if my children went along with any other harmful ideas, like racism or homophobia, then over time, as they became established adults, they have to take the full consequences of their beliefs and actions. Trans ideology is a harmful viewpoint. If my children, as say 30 year olds, supported men in women’s spaces and sports and puberty blockers etc, it would be difficult to continue a relationship, just like if they held harmful racist views.