To wonder why transgender issues have been so prominent here recently.

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Just that, really. It seems like you can't turn your head here without running into a thread banging on about trans women or being offended at being called cis or a terf. Where's it all come from so suddenly? (I am aware that by posting this thread I am adding to the issue.)

It's fashionable at the moment!

Plus, MN is about the only mainstream forum that panders to it so much - probably encouraging the posters.

What with all the censoring of "radical" phrases like "penis = man" .....

I repeat my cry for an "auto hide by keyword" option for threads.....

Those that are fed up with the subject, why post here about it?

OddSocksHighHeels Thank you. I wish posters like you were in the majority in trans threads.

Because it seems to be creeping into everythingon here at the moment.

Did MN give this much time & credence to self harming emos's when they were fashionable??

There have been major news stories about it, which started discussion, and for me anyway, opened my eyes to the very worrying way in which trans rights are eroding women's rights at the moment.

As someone already said upthread, I am a bit surprised at the apathy displayed here.

I've never really noticed trans people or even trans issues

Then yesterday I got a translady and her mother approach me for help at work. Doubt I would've made the connection unless I had read threads here, so unlike my colleagues, I was able to just get on with helping with no fuss/looks/comments. All was well but mum kept saying 'my so....daughter' it was all new to her and she was trying not to use the word 'son' bless her

I had a laugh over it with the lady concerned. Poor mum!

No idea which loo she used, but I'd definitely be ok with her in the ladies, no idea if she was pre or post op but no problem. Before seeing her in real life I'd have been on the fence

As someone already said upthread, I am a bit surprised at the apathy displayed here.

I'm not, it's just not important to most people. How many people talk about it in the pub or at work, or at home?

It's popular with the media at the moment, they're covering it hugely & making it a subject to be talked about.

Your average man/woman/herm on the street doesn't give a flying fuck & thinks it's all a bit bonkers.

Probably because it is finally being acknowledged and people no longer are hiding from it. Get used to it. Remember ladies have had our day trying to be heard, as have ethnic minorities and the disabled, and these still rumble on. I know a mtf trans personally and a few more of her friends. Other media like the BBC have rapidly increased these stories too. Can't we embrace difference rather than critisise it?