what did you know and when did you know it?

when I read about 12 yr old girls having double mastectomies in america about a decade ago I was horrified. A TV show was made about a young boy who was castrated as he thought he was a girl.....Mermaids ....the whole bollocks of 'gender affirming care' the army of angry men pro trans kids-and keen to erode womens & childrens safe spaces, it's all there in the open. I've always said this is a huge medical scandal & a gift to pedos.

Who benefits from trapping confused young adults with a body of a pre pubescent child?

It was the thread about the TV show Riot Women. There's a very minor character who is trans and played by a TIM. There were people announcing they wouldn't watch anything with a trans character in it. People who didn't think trans characters should be on TV at all. Completely against the usual we don't care how anyone dresses as long as they're not pretending to be women line that used to be popular on here (and is where I sit). This guy didn't describe himself as a woman it was literally a bloke in a frock, existing.

Can you give some examples of the 'hate' you have seen?

About eight years ago I read a book called the Trauma Cleaner about a trans woman and it was what got me thinking. It's actually an extremely sympathetic book (it's a biography) and very much takes a TWAW position. However it's a true story and everything the protagonist does is so male. They leave their wife and kids and never look back so they can go and do their own thing among lots of other examples. I had a real scales falling from my eyes moment.

I don't dislike trans women (and I am honestly often quite repelled by the language and hate I see on here) but I have never been able to see them as women at all since then.

I think a lot of us knew right from the start but the ‘be kind’ mantra blinded sensible conversations and around 10 years ago education was bombarded by Stonewall propaganda.

I think we also got bogged down ‘labelling’ any anxiety experienced by kids growing up and the idea they might be happier as the opposite sex/gender became the ‘solution’.

I recall reading about the Tavistock Clinic and being horrified at what was going on. did I do anything? No. Do I wish I had? Absolutely. I did attempt to discuss it with colleagues-men didn’t want to even entertain it and most female colleagues looked at me disdainfully and one even warned me that I sounded bigoted.

We are collectively responsible for this situation and it will, in my opinion, be the scandal of a generation.