Daniel Radcliffe again

“I learned out of the cradle that I was a boy” 😂
Yes, this is how 11-year-olds speak.

now you can change sex

??????????

You can't change sex. Surely you know this?

😂🤣😂

This is why mangling words is not helpful

I think you mean sex? Say sex. Gender is nothing to do with sex. So that's why we are confused.

In Radcliffe’s reported pronouncements on those he thinks are speaking ‘not in good faith’, Radcliffe, a young and wildly over-privileged man who is not a parent, says: ‘'I think a lot of the time it's just because people don't know a young trans person so there's just this theoretical idea about this in their head.'’

1. loads of parents living every day with children showing a lot of distress (which happens to focus on gender identity) would still hugely disagree with Radcliffes gibly sexist, homophobic pronouncements in support of transitioning children

2. Nobody has to ‘know’ a distressed child to believe that safeguarding ALL children is essential

Why is an adult man with no training hanging out with a bunch of young teenagers and making pronouncements about parenting?
I know 3 teenager girls who have changed their mind about their identity and have gone back to their old names and pronouns so no, they don't know who they are.

And I'm afraid I simply don't believe that a bunch of middle class kids (because they always are) have been brought up in the rigidly stereotyped ways they always describe.

The TRA movement just proves itself more and more regressive and all into gender stereotypes. Rather than saying we are two sex classes of humans, and those bio differences are significant in medical and other contexts. However, there are a wide range of personalities/talents/inclinations within each of those sex classes.

sex = male or female (this is biological)

gender = the expectations and assumptions placed on you by society, based on your perceived sex and the cultural and societal beliefs relating to sex roles (this can't be biological)

gender identity = for some, a feeling that the gendered expectations for either sex, as understood by the individual, fit your personality.

As I understand it, anyway.

He’s not the sharpest tool

it frustrates me because I genuinely like DR. But on this issue, it's so baffling.

I admit, I don't know a huge amount about trans ideology but to me it screams of adhering to stereotypes. I like football and superheros = boys, I like princesses and flowers = girls

I've always tried to tell my 8yo that toys are for everyone, and that girls can like blue/boys can like pink. If she's seen a picture or someone on tv of a man in a skirt/dress, I do tell her that its absolutely normal and anyone can wear anything they want. When she was 2, she was obsessed with fireman sam and trucks. It genuinely scares me that some people would have taken that to mean that she should have been trans. Now, she loves barbies and princesses, but she also loves playing for her football team and dinosaurs. I'm so proud of the fact that shes always been comfortable in her own skin and knows her own mind.

Surely if the trans advocates wanted to make a positive difference in the world, they should be focusing on breaking down barriers to stereotypes to say that anyone could like anything they want, people would feel a lot more comfortable in their own skin. Instead, the whole thing seems to be about reinforcing these dangerous stereotypes

I always think of Sam Smith and Harry Styles. You could say they have had similar career protectories so could be compared easily.

Sam Smith now claims to be non-binary and says they feel like a man some days, and a woman on other days. Whereas Harry Styles is basically, "sometimes I feel comfortable in a dress, other times I feel happier in trousers..." I'm pretty sure of the two of them I know who's a lot happier and more comfortable in their own skin.

Hope you're all healing curiously

I preferred my older brother's Action Man to Sindy. (Action Man had a dog. And a spacesuit! The dog had a spacesuit!) And I wanted my brother's motorbike from being 12 years old. According to Daniel Radcliffe and his ilk, I'd have been trans. Unsurprisingly, I am not. He is a dangerous fool.

Louisesndsophie

Where do you draw the line though? When your child insists the world use their new name? When your child wants puberty blockers? Cross sex hormones? To remove parts of their body to dress this lie up?

FGS we aren't talking about a little boy wanting to dress up as a mermaid for the day

But yes, Daniel Radcliffe is an utter bellend.

Maybe because Daniel isn't large on the old cognitive abilities front himself? He sounds thicker with every foray he makes into these issues.
You'd have to wonder why he's so invested.

I'm afraid I don't believe any 11yo uses the phrase 'out of the cradle that I was a boy'. He has been groomed, coached, trained in what to say. From god knows what age. Why the ever living Radcliffe thinks championing this is somehow progressive just amazes me.

What's Radcliffe's deal? The way he speaks around trans issues makes me think he's got skin in the game, like so many celebs who have trans family. Is it just that he feels that he's got some sort of responsibility to redress what he sees as an imbalance created by JKR, because he IS Harry Potter, and he needs to prove to all Potterheads that Harry is kind and inclusive? He doesn't seem like the brightest lad.

The way he's going I could actually see him raising his child as "non-binary", giving them a gender-neutral name and "letting them decide for themselves" and so on.

No, and words keep being mangled anyway.

For a long time gender and sex were ised interchangeably, because people felt a little hesitant to constantly say sex, as it felt rather blunt.

But in terms of sociology gender actually means the roles society expects to be carried out by men and women, and it goes out of its way to impose them. Women are feminine, do the housework, are ornamental, etc. And men are strong, logical, rational and good at leadership. And anything outside that is discouraged. Strong women in leadership are called ball breakers or bitches, etc.

Which is why so many feminists are 'gender critical'.

Transactivists will claim that because they feel like inhabiting those gender stereotypes, it must mean they are really the opposite sex, and that is their 'gender' - a sort of inner essence that means they're not the sex they are.

But again, it's based on reinforcing those gender stereotypes. Hence the clash with feminists.

Oh do fuck off Daniel.

Yes, when a midwife tells you the gender of your baby, the sex of your baby... Used to be as simple as that.. born a boy, might grow up to feel you were born in the wrong body, now you can change sex, change gender... But you're born what you're born. I just want people to be happy jeez.

I do wonder if DR has chosen trans as his cause to have some sort of relevancy. He got the HP gig based on his looks, I don't think he will ge bothering the Academy Awards anytime soon. Theres a really weird interview he did with Graham Norton when DR recites the periodic tables, like a child trying to entertain the older relatives. Its totally cringey and I felt embarrassed for him.

He was told at the round table by 11-year-old trans girl, Daley: 'I learned out of the cradle that I was a boy: "I should like blue, I should like sports, I should be manly, I should like superheroes".'

As Radcliffe nodded, she continued: 'And I never associated myself with those things and we are told that we are not old enough to know this yet. I am only 11-years-old, how do I know I'm a girl?

The lack of comprehension is so frustrating.

Radcliffe is an adult who has decided to have a public opinion about all this. You'd think the least he could do is find out why women like J. K. Rowling are gender critical. And what it actually means.

Louiseandsophie

Yes, of course children can play with whatever they like, girls can play with trucks and boys can play with dolls. They're just toys. Blue and pink are just colours. And in fact, pink used to signify masculinity, as it's close to red (also considered masculine).

The point is, none of this changes a child's sex. And these children are being raised to believe that if a girl likes boys' toys, she's probably a boy.

It's utterly sexist.

See the boy in the article, maintaining that because they are supposed to like blue, and don't, they are actually a girl.

It's dangerous claptrap.

By biological gender do you mean sex?

Parents can't decide their children's sex. Sex is based on biology and can’t be changed.

Don't be silly. Daniel knows what a woman really is. It's the baby carrying device he will be getting to do all the parent grunt work.

Why, 'Born a certain sex' means exactly the same as 'Born a certain gender' does it not? Born a boy biologically, born a girl biologically, biology determines a girl or boy... The sex I was born is female, I am of the female sex. Enough?

CuriouslyDifferent that sounds really difficult