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

She'd be doing them a favour

I hope this hill shes dying on keeps her company in her latter years when she's inevitably alone.

"Cut it off"

Youre fucking rancid.

You’d cut your children off, if they identified as trans?

Well how sad for your kids that they have such an intolerant mother .

I daresay theyll alienate you first with that attitude.

And in 10-15 years time we'll see a post "dont know why my adult DC dont bother with me"

So one day they are a drag artist, the next they have it cut off and they become a woman?

Are they still children? You may find that as they become adults, they develop their very own opinions, as ours did. We disagree about some things, which is perfectly healthy.
That adults should have to continue to go along with their parents beliefs or risk being “alienated” by them, as another poster put it, is far from healthy. I’d call it shocking and bordering upon coercion.

I think I would have put it a bit more neutrally than you did!

In fact I do when talking to my DS11.

I’m really not sure that an 11 yo knows they are straight (or gay) either - they may have an idea of what preference will grow up to have, but going from my 17 yo, it isn’t as simple as always knowing what you’ll be in every case.

Edit - so I might say “that person was born as a male, but some people feel that they are a different sex/ gender to the one they were born, and live their lives in that way, and that’s OK” - because it is. However we want to divide public spaces etc some people feel that way, and it’s OK that they do.

To be explicitly clear - I do not complain about the existence of anyone who makes the claim that they are trans. I might complain that I want nothing to do with them (as is my right as an individual) or that I think public display or paraphilia is wrong, or that I believe gender dysphoria to be mental illness and to demand affirmation is to demand one's MH issues go untreated, but I do not complain about the existence of anyone who makes the claim that they are trans.

So are some females. But fwiw I experienced SA from actual men that weren't trans. I believe that if someone feels strongly that they are the wrong sex and goes through the horrendous surgery to achieve it they fully deserve to be called a woman. A man that just dresses like a woman is a drag artist. They've always been around.

Sometimes, of course. If I had a child who was an unrepentent convicted paedophile I would side with those who despise paedophiles and not my unrepentent convicted paedophile child.

But more than that I think that truth will always matter and truth must always win. I believe that my relationships with my kids need protecting long term, and short term lies to keep short term peace would undermine my long term attempts.

Also, I would regard myself as an utter failure as a parent if my child claimed that sex is not real and / or does not matter.

I would try to find out why and urge them to seek help, certainly wouldn’t tell them to go away and never darken my door again!

My mum has dementia and is increasingly racist. It’s embarrassing as hell but I’m not going to cut her off for it.

Well you clearly have an ideology!
some people would just prefer to live and let live

My children know I love them and trust that anything I do would be because it is best for them. We discuss issues, like this one. Because my points are based on facts and I’ve addressed the harm trans ideology does, whilst showing sympathy for their friends going through gender identity issues, explaining that they have those issues due to horrible stereotyping, which is at the core of trans ideology, they don’t feel alienated. Honest conversations, listening to each other, critical thinking skills, kindness, biological knowledge etc, all of which my children and I have, mean these conversations can be had without bad feeling.

Where do you get all this ‘hate and fear’ from?

Funny how you’re allowed to hate misogynist ideologies like the theocracies that imprisoned women for having out of wedlock, or that ban women from learning or receiving healthcare, but you’re not allowed to hate the ideology that tells children their bodies are wrong and must be sterilised, that women must get undressed in front of men if the men want them to, that lesbians are bigots if they do not want to have sex with males, that female prisoners must be put in cells with violent male rapists if these men claim that they are women. Seems perfectly reasonable to fear men who use transgenderism to access women and children. Men fear that women will laugh at them; women fear that men will kill them.

It’s not the confused or rebellious trans-identifying people that are the object of hate, but the misogynistic, homophobic transgenderism ideology.

Happy to be challenged but the same arguments daily are just so dull. There's far bigger fish to fry than a trans actor playing a doctor. Heaven forbid.

When was it, exactly, that agreeing to differ became a thing of the past? People are entitled to different opinions about things, surely?

Your kids deserve better if you'd be happy to distance yourself for this. You're so far beyond unreasonable that you can't even see reasonable from that distance.

I'm sure there are limits to that though. What about if your child voiced extremely racist views for example?

I haven’t seen this point made here before.

Why is being transgender considered homophobic? Because it’s like trying to avoid same sex relationships through changing your gender?

The reality in our family is that our (adult) kids are far more important to us than differing opinions or ideologies.

You don’t think alienating your children because they didn’t share their views would harm them?

You’re doing your kids harm if you are willing to go along with trans ideology. I refuse to do my children harm. I wouldn’t tell my daughter she was overweight if she was underweight, just because it was what she wanted to hear. It may please her short term, she may want me to help her reduce calories, exercise more etc, but it would damage her. We engage in reality and facts in our house.

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?

Totally agree with this

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.