Previous thread, RobinMoiraWhite wrote,
"I have respectful debates about difficult discrimination concepts and the clash of protected rights virtually every working day. But it won’t be respectful if, when speaking or writing about me, you call me, as a trans woman, ‘he’ or deny my right to use the facilities society has decided I should have, such as my right to use the bathroom of my affirmed gender should I visit premises under your control?
How would that be different to the position adopted by a certain regime in Germany in the 1930’s that black athletes were held to be sub-human and should not be competing against white athletes?
There is an old expression. You make peace with your enemies, not your friends. Society has had to work out how to balance the gay/religious clash, and that is likely always to be uncomfortable as recent news about a school In Birmingham shows.
Trans and gender-critical is a similar clash of diametrically opposed views and we have to find a way to live on the same little island. That won’t happen by either side attempting to deny the existence of the opposing view or treating each other with the contempt, intolerance and confusion between fact and opinion reflected rather too frequently on pages such as these"
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3593037-Weve-never-believed-in-silencing-debate