@puds11
Welcome to the FWR boards. I see that you have already been directed to the useful Break It Down For Me thread.
I also see that ASimpleLampoon is trying to paint the women here as "anti-trans" or "transphobic", which is simply not true. None of us wish any harm to people who genuinely have dysphoria - a condition where they feel that their is something seriously wrong with their healthy body. But we do not share their belief that a person can be born into the wrong body.
Unfortunately, any empathy that women here used to have for these "old school transsexuals" (those with genuine dysphoria) has been taken advantage of by the many males who now fall under the "trans umbrella". This is a definition created by Stonewall, the LGBT lobby group (who seem to be mainly trans-focussed now), and includes anyone who crossdresses. This means that "autogynephiles" (men who dress in female clothing because it sexually excites them) are now classified as "transgender".
There are many, many issues relating to the concerns of gender-critical women when it comes to transgenderism, but to summarise three of the main ones:
- Trans rights groups are lobbying hard to remove female-only spaces. These are actually protected by the Equality Act 2010, but companies all over the UK are being coerced into allowing any male who simply states that he "identifies as a woman" that day to enter these spaces. The problem with this is that you cannot tell who is one of the tiny percentage of men with genuine dysphoria, and who is a sexual predator.
Male rapists have been allowed into women's prisons, and sexually assaulted female inmates. Sexual offences by men against women have drastically increased in mixed-sex changing rooms. Men have been allowed to share rooms with women in rape crisis centres. There are many further examples on these boards.
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Men are taking away positions that should be for women. Google Pips Bunce, a male who swings between dressing as male one day and female the next, who won an award for "top women in business". Men are entering women's sports and taking their titles. Google Rachel Mckinnon, a transgender cyclist who won the women's masters track cycling world championships, or Maxine Blythin, a transgender cricketer playing on a women's team in Kent.
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Children are being taught that they can "be born in the wrong body", and referred to begin puberty-blocking drugs and then cross-sex hormones, with very little exploration of why they may be feeling uncomfortable with their bodies. Many of these children are actually gay, autistic or have a history of sexual abuse, and these issues are not being investigated.
These children are being offered medication and surgery that will have lifelong effects, and will effectively sterilise them, with very little long term research into the consequences.
There is so much more I could write, but I would encourage you to keep reading these FWR threads, and make up your own mind. I suspect you will be come as horrified by the whole thing as the rest of us. Please keep asking questions - we want to expose this ideology for the danger it poses to women and children.