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

Nobody on this thread has suggested anything of the sort though, have they?

I'll never understand people who invent fictitious scenarios to get mad at.

He does, but he is a man and OP was right to be honest about that with her child.

Oh that’s so random, I’ve actually met her! I’m pretty sure she does identify as female.

Boom, boom 😁

Should’ve gone to specsavers? 😬

It’s bad for women if it means losing their rights to single sex spaces that give them privacy and dignity, and losing out in sports. An ideology that is based on gender stereotypes, resulting in people feeling they need to change socially and physically, taking puberty blockers and hormones that result in incontinence, loss of sexual function, osteoporosis….i could go on…. Yes, it’s a bad thing.

'New' doesn't mean positive or negative necessarily. Everything needs to be assessed on its merits

Deciding that gender identity is more important than sex in classifying humans has led to giving men access to women's single sex spaces. Sports, prisons, rape crisis centres, domestic violence shelters. If you think that's a positive development, well, you do you.

Personally I'd prefer if we supported people to express themselves how they choose, while upholding the importance and primacy of sex.

Fine. For the umpteenth time, though. I didn’t bloody notice 😁

What does that mean to an 11 year old though?

No one really cares what you think

This is virtue signalling at it's worst

I've also seen it many times, and NEVER noticed this character - even with the helpful link above from a PP, still dont remember them.

When archaeologists dig up skeletons from thousands of years ago they can tell the people were trans and not binary male or female because…oh…um…[insert TRA word salad bingo here eg references to there being 312 different genders, literal violence, genocide etc etc].

So what? Lots of things are new. Rights for wimen are new. Rights for gays are new. Being anti slavery is new. New doesn’t mean bad.

To anyone who doesn’t want to deny biology and isn’t scared of bringing called transphobic because they deal with scientific facts, not just feelings.

Me too.

I’d have said yeah a biological male, who identifies as a woman, so a trans woman.

It didn’t bother me either. It’s just a part in a film. But if my child has asked if he was a man, I’d have said yes.

It’s also important to have conversations about people who are identifying as trans due to the explosion in numbers and the consequences and impacts on wider society. This will be a talking point for many 11 year old in year 7. Both of my children had trans identifying people in their friendship groups from year 7. Talking to them so that they can get think through their views, helping them to balance those with other peoples etc, it’s something parents need to be ‘on’. If you have an autustic child, even more so as they are so vulnerable anyway, but especially to this ideology.

I’m more intrigued that you felt it appropriate to label your DS11 as straight. At 11?? How can he possibly know accurately yet?

To you, fair enough. Can only say again, didn’t notice.

No, he stands at one point. Seeing him next to women really shows that he is a man. And his voice. Its not individual things even, It’s the whole presence/package (no pun intended). He looks like a man which is no surprise when he is a man

Doesn’t he just sit behind a desk?
Anyway, it really didn’t leap out at me. Wouldn’t bother me if it had, though.

I didn’t notice either but I have only watched Last Christmas while wrapping presents so am often only listening.

I tried to watch the Ex-Mas one this year instead but God it was dreadful. I got as far as the cupcake-divorce and the gay Grandads who seemed to have no narrative reason other than being gay Grandads for cutesy reasons (how patronising) and I was out

See him in the film, see him move, his voice, his hands, him in comparison to women. He’s is obviously a man.

See him in other things where he has a bigger role. He is very obviously a man.

Perhaps you should get yourself a hobby if you need something to occupy your mind.

What language is this? Sounds like you've had too much of the sherry