Is being trans a choice?

Well something happened, and probably funded by the Christian right.

Why did all these progressive liberal women decide to do what the Christian Right wanted?

I think it's a choice for some people but not for others.

I also think sexual orientation is a choice for some people, not for others.

Wanting to be the opposite sex, obviously arises out of all sorts of things. Internalised homophobia, fetishism, gender dysphoria.

Saying you're the opposite sex is definitely a choice.

As is expecting other people to agree with you.

Especially when it reinforces sexism and damages women.

Eyes down everyone.

Christian far right.
True trans aren't predators.

I suggest, disgusted, if you know how to sort the true trans from the predators you let the appropriate authorities know. As people are identifying as trans and damaging your cause.

That's why it's cruel to expect either gay or trans people to repress that part of their identity, to force them to live a lie
Homosexuality isn’t an identity. Just like being female or male isn’t. It just IS. Like blue eyes, or a big nose. I’ve never heard a gay man say that they ‘identify’ as gay.

What happened was that women stopped putting up and shutting up. Nobody asked us how we felt about sharing our spaces and you have no idea whether there were any issues or incidents, because for years we smiled and pretended not to notice. Sometimes this was to be kind and sometimes it was because many of us had learned the hard way not to challenge. It was the epitome of entitled behaviour.

I think that the answer to the question must be that for some people it is a choice and for others it is dysphoria, a mental health condition requiring skilled and compassionate treatment on the NHS. Even with dysphoria surely then it is a choice to call yourself trans and perhaps also to sign up to gender identity/queer theory. There are other strategies for coping with dysphoria, psychological therapies which can support the acceptance of the body and the rejection of stereotypes.

Progressive too
Would love a grammar only edit button.

What is more likely?
A whole load of women, usually progression and liberal woke up one day and went, ' I fancy being a big biggy bigot'. Then their friends who had previously been in the #bekind camp thought, 'wow biggity big bigotry looks ace. I'll try that to.

Or that trans activists directly impact and threaten women's sex based rights?

And yes, around two years ago I was sharing two spirit articles and defending the most discriminated against ever. But as a sports for girls and women advocate I started to see the cracks.

Still waiting for someone to change my mind. I'm afraid hyperbole and name calling doesn't work on me.

Yes indeed, my choice to support the rights and spaces of girls and women has been thoroughly thought out.

People are trans and people choose to be anti-trans. I am sure there are a small number of people, there are with all things, but I have yet to meet anyone with a personal reason for being anti-trans so its definitely a thought out choice.

Anybody can say they identify as something they are not.

Yes it was panda.

Ah the poster who said that is on this thread.

And I think the link in the OP is the thread it was said.

Sorry for confusion

Maybe apologies OP!

There's another thread on a similar topic and I mixed them up.

Genuine apologies. Will read the thread properly.

For those with gender dysphoria, it isn't a choice just like being depressed isn't a choice for someone with clinical depression. The transition is often the only method of treatment that's likely to work for someone with gender dysphoria.

Non-binary and other umbrella trans identities are absolutely a choice. They choose to identify as x because they feel x doesn't suit them. It's not dysphoria, it's an unwillingness to subscribe to gender norms and stereotypes and a conscious choice to distance themselves with pronouns and identity markers.

Apologies - OP is on two threads.

It may be the other one where OP asserted that women aren't physically overall in terms of strength etc actually weaker than men.

And further that belief was patriarchal and a damaging misgynist idea promoted by feminists.

To say that the global and historical fact of male sexual violence esp rape

Is down to the billions of women that have ever lived incorrectly believing they were weak

And that this belief is the fault of... Feminists in a certain part of the world at a certain time..

Is grotesque misogyny.