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Public want trans women kept out of female sport (Times, 16/6/22)

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BettyFilous · 16/06/2022 06:07

The Times is reporting on research undertaken by the More in Common think tank. The article covers multiple domains, not just sport.

^Only 19 per cent of Britons supported allowing trans athletes in women’s sport against 57 per cent who did not. The report found consistent opposition to biological males in women’s sport in every group surveyed, even among groups who backed transgender inclusion in other parts of
public life.^

(snip)

Support for trans women using women’s lavatories and changing rooms depended on whether they had undergone gender reassignment surgery. Those who had were twice as welcome in single-sex spaces as biological males who identified as women. But it was the question of sport that proved to be the “red line”.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4d010462-ece3-11ec-8821-d2e916a7eab3?shareToken=3725b577b2d58b381a2773f04ce1f860

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McDuffy · 16/06/2022 06:55

Does it feel like damage limitation/a PR manoeuvre to anyone else?

Somanysocks · 16/06/2022 06:34

I'm surprised it's only 57%.

Cherryblossoms85 · 16/06/2022 06:33

Give it a few more years and the stats will be reversed. That's how it works. That's what's depressing.

UnadulteratedCat · 16/06/2022 06:29

I’m chuckling at (snip) then a paragraph about chopping off penises 😂

Nellodee · 16/06/2022 06:19

Turns out, Britons don’t want penis people in women’s sports, changing rooms or toilets. They don’t want children to take irreversible treatments (and MIC didn’t explain to their focus groups any of the concerns about puberty blockers). They never brought up, given that people don’t want intact males in toilets, how we would monitor this. Nor, at any point whatsoever, did they even mention women’s prisons. People were happy to recite the twaw mantra. So all in all, it seems the general public agree with the gender critical positions in most practical sense, but are much more in be kind mode.
It remains to be seen how kind they will all feel if they verbalise their practical positions on a public stage and are savaged for them.

WTF475878237NC · 16/06/2022 06:09

Such different reporting to the Guardian surprise surprise. Thanks for sharing!

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