GLAAD calls on major social media platforms to *ban* the view that youth gender medicine is dangerous.

Are you saying that Peter Parker isn't a spider, you bigot?! ;o)

Disappointed to see Cynthia Nixon on there. You'd think she'd be sympathetic to the plight of lesbians accused of "being sexual racists" or bigotry for not wanting to sleep with a male-bodied person.

To think, my biggest worries as a young teen were all centered on Spiderman and Peter Parker. The closest I got to an ID crisis, lol.

I wouldn't swap that for problems today, not for any money.

Yes, the 'journey' today's teenage girls are going regarding self loathing and female erasure is so dispiriting. And that they see the show's gay males as mastectomied, testosterone-dosed females too, in their fan art, not as same-sex attracted biological males. There's a lot of talk about Furries in the media because of the Catgender recording, but the internalised misogyny of girls in fantasy fandoms feels like a more urgent topic.

That anyone claims Alok as a member of their community after saying such abhorrent things is beyond me.

Alok’s hard drives need checking regularly.

Yes @IvyTwines that is exactly how I feel about it.
I caught a few seconds of the pirate show trailer a while ago and it just didn't appeal at all, even without knowing anything about it and its fandom. I (all of the family really) have watched pretty much every other Taika movie/show except for the latest Marvel one but none, even my teenagers, want to see this show.

@IvyTwines i knew my gut feeling about that show and its intentions was correct but good lord 🤢

I grew up on female action heroines and here girls are celebrating an all male except for one self loathing female starring show as diverse and inclusive. Depressing

and Taika has been on a horrendous midlife crisis tour since he publicly cheated on the mother of his children. He can go in the bin, if he can fit his massive ego in it.

Jazz Jennings is the only signatory I for whom.I have some understanding of why he/his mother/his mother in his head signed. Total compassion. He was what? A toddler? When his mother concluded he was trans.

We can't take this 'hands off' approach you suggest because innocent children are being indoctrinated to think they could be 'trans' or of a different 'gender identity'. Parents have to protect their own and their neighbours' children from coming to unnecessary harm.
Professionals with safeguarding responsibilities cannot be allowed to ignore all their training and profit from this unfortunate 'eugenic' Zeitgeist.

A project always needs the person to bring in the Bud Light.

Ah, I thought I knew that name. I need another shower.

And I'm not sure Dylan Mulvaney's endorsement is quite the advert they think it is.

They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel with ALOK Vaid-Menon who's on record saying little girls are kinky and deviant and not as innocent as people think.

YES!

Remember the tone from these letters not 18 months ago? Demanding absolute obedience, zero tolerance.

Today? Still the shrillness. But now more of a pleading tone, requesting dialog be shut down, not expecting it.

Still hitting all the wrong bum notes, but now less a cacophony of hyenas and more of a howling of alleycats.

And look at the names. Other than Patrick Stewart, noone that anybody down the pub tonight would either know or respect.

And Jazz Jennings? Seriously?
What is this, the Stockholm Syndrome signature, or did lovely mum take it upon herself to sign on behalf? I mean she makes all the decisions for Jazz.

Watch all those people reverse ferret once detransitioners become the majority within these communities and want compensation and explanations.

what you all said, but also

Jesse Singal back on Twitter!

Wasn't it only yesterday they were telling us that no one is transing kids? They cannot even keep up their own lies for two minutes. And I agree with everyone above, they have to stop us talking, because sunlight being shone on them shows up their fetishes and misogyny and predilections for the horrors they are.

Well those people have all made themselves look incredibly silly, haven't they?

Hardly any big names, though, which is encouraging if you care about all those non-entities and a smattering of mostly c list celebs.

@Igneococcus "but actually asking for people to be banned from voicing a view different to one's own is really disturbing." Yes, getting Orwellian - we've long known the young trans activists are like that, hashtag NoDebate lest their make-believe house of cards comes crashing down, but it's a shock to hear a demand for silence around the medicalisation of children being signed up to by a writer/director I'd considered smart and mature enough to know better, and old enough to have lived through several previous unfolding medical, big business, political and safeguarding scandals, many first revealed by brave whistleblowers.

Hmm, maybe while they're at it, they can all publically declare their support for the recent ACLU missive saying society was transphobic for not supporting a pathologically psychopathic misogynist, rapist and necrophiliac, in his heartfelt desire to become a non-man.

That is the new term to use, yes?

I don't see why Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok would change their policies just because a few celebrities and a load of transactivists signed some demanding letter. This is just posturing by GLAAD for their supporters.

I'm not really surprised that he is probably full on TWAW when I think about it either @IvyTwines but actually asking for people to be banned from voicing a view different to one's own is really disturbing.
I have friends and in-laws in NZ and I don't quite dare raise this topic with them.

The two of them are twats, basically.

Actually, I seem to remember Cap. Picard was assimilated by the Borg...but heroically broke free.

Too bad that was fiction...