Younger generations being pro trans

I think young people can be a bit naive about the realties of sex. It's actually quite easy at the age of 20 or so to see being a man or a woman as primarily a matter of what clothes you wear and what sort of interests you have. The differences between males and females become a lot harder to ignore once you or your friends start having babies. As women get older they are more likely to notice sex discrimination at work. Once people grow up a bit they get a more realistic view of the world.

Many young people haven’t experienced having children giving birth and breastfeeding. Give them time and the obvious becomes very clear.

I remember being at a debate about Pride with some teenagers. Bearing in kind my first pride was in 1994, you would think they invented in, the owned it.

And one of them very boldly deflated that anyone who had voted for brexit was not welcome at pride.

But there are plenty of gay people who voted for brexit. Pride is a GAY celebration, why does your political affiliation with the EU even come into it?

Who is more open minded, again?

when I was young I thought the job of feminism was done and we were living in the sunny uplands of sex equality. Then I had kids.

I have faith that people’s views grow and change as they get more life experience. I would note that my views are not the same s my mother’s though.

I think it's already a bit embarrassing for younger generations. Gender identity is a gen z thing. The children in gen alpha who I see buying into it only do so because they have "cool" parents. When these 9-11 year olds hit full teenagerhood then they will rebel. This time it'll be choosing to wear suits and ties or something that has gone out of fashion in older generations.

I'm afraid younger people do not have more open minds - at least, not by virtue being younger. Younger people are far more concerned about fitting in and being accepted than older people are, and are therefore much more susceptible to group think. They may believe they are thinking for themselves, but in fact, they're simply going along with whatever happens to be the dominant ideology among their peer group. This dominant ideology is often at odds with what their parents believe, giving the young people the illusion that they're both wiser and more open-minded than the oldies.

Yeah. I used to be all “be kind” and supportive. Til someone told me to “educate myself”. So I did. And became a full on TERF. It didn’t quite work out the way they hoped

I am almost certain that like many people, any youngster who fully supports this with their heart and soul will very quickly change their mind once faced with a real world example.

They are only thinking of their friends - and often themselves - and support them with the blind fervour of people who haven't yet experienced the consequences.

Fascinating conversation with my 20yr old pal a while ago. How she really wanted to change my mind and lectured me about being wrong - then said how much she despised lilly tino as a liar and a fake.

I pointed out that lily tino is probably more entitled to claim to be a trans woman as any of my pal's young friends, because lily tino jmhas actually had all the surgery, hormones you can have.

I pointed out that my pal wouldn't be able to chose which men she considered genuinely to be women and which she considered to be fake. She seemed baffled by this notion - of course she could choose, of course it was up to her.....

She will soon find out.....

Older people could stop this so easily. They all se “trans” as cool and edgy. I bet if all their parents suddenly started “identifying as trans” it’d soon stop. Like when your child brings over someone horrible as a boy/girlfriend. Instead of ranting and banning them, praise them. Taking away the opposition takes away a lot of the desire to “stick it to the oldies “.