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Why are the public still not engaged with the gender debate?

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MillyTheKid · 14/06/2018 10:55

Why do you think people beyond the TRA and feminist bubble are not talking about gender issues? It's regularly been in the papers, on television and is always on social media and yet it seems that the average person in the street is still not engaged with the topic.

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deydododatdodontdeydo · 14/06/2018 11:14

Forgot to add: many people have been brought up to be tolerant and accepting, so criticising this can be seen to be intolerant and phobic.

SeahorsesAREhorses · 14/06/2018 11:13

The misinformation out there is terrible. People believe hundreds o trans people are killed each year, nope, that would be women.

Kids regularly tell me that if you like pink your a girl, used to be it's a girl's colour, now liking pink makes you a girl.

Kids seem to have received the message that sex is optional.

deydododatdodontdeydo · 14/06/2018 11:13

They don't realise the potential impact, they don't think it'll affect them, they don't think it'll ever happen, at a guess.

Southfields · 14/06/2018 11:12

OTOH, I can peak trans any man or woman in under 3 minutes.

I know: I do it daily.

SuitedandBooted · 14/06/2018 11:12

The level of understanding is very poor.
It's conflated with gay rights, and most people think that Trans Gender means surgery, not just saying "Well, I'm a woman inside".

ImagineBeing · 14/06/2018 11:11

How much would publishing some FB and newspaper adverts, with facts such as links to the Samaritans, cost?

CaptainKirkssparetupee · 14/06/2018 11:09

99% of people just don't care as it's a very small minority?

Kimlek · 14/06/2018 11:08

Exactly what southfields says.

ImagineBeing · 14/06/2018 11:07

Why are the Samaritans silent in all of this?

Southfields · 14/06/2018 11:06

People "in the street" are either male or female.

The men aren't engaged because it doesn't affect them.

The women aren't engaged because they think the issue is a bunch of rabid feminists picking on a vulnerable minority for no reason and being horrible to them. They can't see why a man who has changed sex can't use the ladies'.

ImagineBeing · 14/06/2018 11:05

Overheard conversation between two year 8 girls.

"I feel so sorry for trans women, did you know thousands of them are killed every year?"

"No, that's terrified, poor things"

Lies are spread that gain sympathy. Nobody is correcting the lies.