If you're on Twitter Glinner's tweeted a poll

Saw that and said my bit. Makes me glad my kids are grown up and not subjected to this.

"the trans army who will be madly bombarding the poll"

The solution to that is to add an additional option to every poll "do you hate everyone who is not trans" and they'll all click on that. :)

well thats interesting, though I doubt most people are really pro.

Don't really get twitter, just seems to be a lot of people arguing a lot of the time, seems quite toxic.
Admire those who stick to their guns on it despite getting trolled.

Thanks for this.

Graham Linehan is interviewed on this free to listen podcast:

twitter.com/Jarlath/status/1014201836553883648

I've just listened to the podcast, and he explained it really well. He mentions that it's not necessarily transpeople that are the problem, but men abusing the system. He talks about YouTubers influencing vulnerable children, boys winning girls races and Ian Huntley.

I don't think the host gets it. When Graham talked about the dangers to women's sport, he seemed very dismissive, but he had enough respect for Graham to let him answer.

Especially a random like Zinnia Jones.

I voted

Long may twitter users believe that the world believes as they do. The next step is for them to march out of their twitter enclaves and tell the world at large what is the correct way to think.

Twitter is nuts. There's no way it's representative of the public, or we would have a Labour government and brexit wouldn't have happened. I've seen so much stuff posted on Twitter (and agreed with) that IRL would have people carefully backing away.

Graham Linehan is interviewed on this free to listen podcast:

twitter.com/Jarlath/status/1014201836553883648

Graham didn't even say prescribe puberty blockers, he said pitch. It says a lot about the people who think it's fine that some random on the internet is selling or persuading children to buy puberty blockers without medical supervision.

There is absolutely no way that in the real world the majority of people think it’s fine to give puberty blockers to kids. Twitter is not representative of the real world.

This.

God yes, Popchyk. Where there are great flocks of sheep, there will be wolves...

I've just seen this ane expressed my views on safeguarding and child protection.

All the hard work professionals do to keep children away from abusers and then this. It is seriously disturbing.

Twitter isn't just uninformed sheep though. There is money to be had from uninformed sheep.

Lots of people have an agenda with stuff to sell (drugs, trans awareness training, that kind of thing). And of course people in whose interests it is to have a pool of children who never get to grow up. It is a marketplace.

And to do that they need to fire up the stupid in order to further both agendas. So you get the situation where someone will deliberately engineer a disagreement with Graham Linehan for example and then use that exposure to try to sell drugs to children.

Capitalism, unsavoury characters and people looking for a solution to unhappiness. This is what you get.

There is absolutely no way that in the real world the majority of people think it’s fine to give puberty blockers to kids. Twitter is not representative of the real world.

Cool story garam, but we all know Twitter is where the worldwide TRA contingent live and hunt.
Besides, why would I give a fuck about the opinion of someone who thinks dishing out damaging meds to kids on special offer is fine and dandy?

trans people are bombarding the poll, thats hilarious, he has nearly 700k followers, more than the uk trans community.

Some people just cannot accept the majority disagree's with a vocal minority of uninformed/malicious viewpoints.

must put glasses on

no i meant bumping, not bumpling to rhyme with dumpling.

bumpling

Pointless to expect Twitter polls to tell you more than the fact that a large proportion of Twitter users are unthinking sheep. 'Tis the nature of the medium. Life in soundbites, with the depth of a reservoir in current weather conditions...

Urgh twitter- NOT THE REAL WORLD p**k news should had put that question in their poll.

The bat signal will have gone out to the trans army who will be madly bombarding the poll. They do that every time a poll like this is published.

I agree, I don't think twitter is the best place for a representative and knowledge poll.

It's depressing to see how many adults want to keep teens pre pubescent, though.

Yes, it was in response to a company touting for business among children on social media with special offers of different drugs to prevent puberty. Clearly the market for that is only those children who have not yet gone through puberty. And you'd have to wonder what is really in those drugs if a company is willing to use those sales methods.

The TRAs of course think that this is absolutely fine. Admirable in fact.

And really don't like GL calling attention to it. That is why they are all over him like a rash.

I had to read up about puberty blockers when my daughter was 6. Anyone who thinks that they're fine knows nothing about them.

Why that tweet advertising puberty blockers like sweets to children is allowed to stand,I don't understand.