LGBT children board title

A strong vote against two boards. As a lesbian and a parent of a bisexual teen, we do not want LGB without the T. It smacks of the LGB alliance.

A vote for 2 boards. One LGB and the other gender-questioning, ideally. I don't mind if trans is used in the second title but I think whatever the NHS/Cass Report suggest as vocabulary is the best. It's been considered by experts not a bunch of experts in their personal anecdotes.

Agree

Oh yes silly twat i am I am 🙄

I agree with this

This is not on is it

There is a blue m in front i mean hu?

No try @ her/him you will see it is a mumsnet employee !!!!!

Yeah that wasn't a post by KellyMN - it was post directed to her.

This is the only post by KellyMN!

@ArabellaScott I mean she/ he is a mumsnet employee

@ArabellaScott hi i am confused by the post by Kelly mumsnet, is it acceptable to express a particular view, from an employee in such angry terms besides which I assume mumsnet have the appropriate data on who is who.

Do we report this if so who to i mean WTF.

And let's not forget, when the Feminist board was split in two, there were monitors - sorry I mean users - who were extremely willing to shepherd posters to the 'correct' board if they felt the post had been put in the wrong board. I'm sure the very helpful people would assist those on the LGB and T/Gender Questioning boards if the split proposed came to pass. So helpful are some folx.

Would it just be easier to explain why sterilising and mutulating gay, lesbian and autistic kids is a good thing, and not a very bad, evil thing?

Instead of making sweeping generalisations, based on no evidence at all, how about actually putting your position on the topic at hand forward?

For example, why, in the context of the very thorough and well evidenced findings of the Cass Review, do you support the continued use of "LGBT children" as a descriptor?

@KellyMumsnet
Supposedly there are hundreds of thousand of people who use mumsnet but for some reason the 'gender-critical' group of a few hundred (maybe as many as a couple of thousand) seem to hold sway - probably by being terminally online and attempting to dominate any conversation about gender.

Why should they get to dictate that LGBT should no longer be used - they're a minority who constantly complain that those who disagree with them won't talk to them. It is also really obvious that some of them name change in an attempt to make their arguments look more popular. However the number of votes on the AIBU posts show their real popularity.

Not that it'll make any difference what you call the board because the GC lot will be all over it linking to right wing videos and arguing that every reputable mainstream organisation has been 'captured'. They spend most of their time giving bad advice and congratulating themselves as knowing better than every medical and safeguarding organisation around the world.

As with many others who use this site I know this is probably a waste of time even highlighting them. But hey ho someone had to say it.

Also agree with this. The more obvious solution would be to hive off the gender-related issue to a board named Trans and Gender Questioning or similar.

Please follow OP's advice, it is excellent as are many of the contributions on this thread.

There are countless of us lesbian parents who are concerned at the gaslighting of children that their bodies are flawed but could be fixed with a sex change.

Mumsnet "makes parents' lives easier by pooling knowledge, advice and support on everything from conception to childbirth, from babies to teenagers". Transactivists are of course able to post on here but should expect to be challenged when their demands are about transactivism rather than children's wellbeing and safety.
Cass has been a wake up call for society in terms of exposing the lack of evidence for the treatment regimes used for this vulnerable group of children and I hope that MNHQ will take account of the changing landscape and include the phrase "gender questioning children and ideally bin the age inappropriate phrase "trans children".

How dare someone decide that we have no right to speak on this topic, when they do not know us. Though I rarely post and name change frequently, if MN wish to do so they can look back over my posting history from many years ago where I reference my LGB DC and trouble with bullying from T.

I strongly believe in separate boards, these are very different issues.

My Dd is the B, and I absolutely think they should be separated.
My Dd being bi has utterly nothing to do with a peer of hers wanting to be male.