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What if this happened at your kids school?

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Bambambini · 08/04/2017 18:28

Would it bother you - if this happened at your kids school? A 15 yr old boy (ok Trans) who used to race on the boys team - now races on the girls team and is beating the other girls. I don't see why it won't happen here - if it already hasn't happened.

I have kids at high school and i'd find this hard tovsccrpt, especially if i had girls who liked sport.

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/08/trans-middle-schooler-added-to-female-track-team/amp/

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VestalVirgin · 12/04/2017 11:48

I really just don't understand - it's like the governmrnt one day deciding the sky is now green and will be referred to as green from now on and everyone must say it's green.

Yes, only that pretending the sky is green wouldn't hurt anyone.

The Catholic Church has for centuries pretended that a communion wafer literally becomes the body of Christ, but that worked because everyone has always treated it as ... a wafer. Vegetarians do not refuse to eat it, and the government has not objected to the cannibalism this would constitute if anyone took it seriously.

The problem with this pretending that men can be women shit is that we are not only expected to nod and agree, but forced to treat those men like we would treat real, actual women. And that has very, very, very bad consequences.

lisaIambe · 12/04/2017 12:25

Going back to the Barbican, this occurred to me earlier.

Does anyone know if they've put sanitary bins in the "gender neutral with urinals?" As in, in the cubicles and next to each urinal.

Because if they're all now open for both sexes to use, there much be sanitary bins in both, surely? Or that could expose just how ridiculous the entire thing is.

DameDeDoubtance · 12/04/2017 14:19

We will bringing up a generation of children to not trust their senses, not believe their eyes. All privacy for children and women gone, in a climate where 98% of sexual crime are committed by males.

WankingMonkey · 12/04/2017 17:36

We will bringing up a generation of children to not trust their senses, not believe their eyes. All privacy for children and women gone, in a climate where 98% of sexual crime are committed by males.

Yes its rather dangerous isn't it. I mean we (or I certainly will, assume others do too) teach our daughters to be wary of males. Not scared as such but to be alert if, for example you are walking home alone and a guy starts following you. My stepdaughter is only 12 and had an issue a few days back with a guy about 50 following her home from school. Luckily we had taught her that this was a situation to be alert in so she called us and spoke to us all of the way home, or near home where DH met her and guy scarpered off when he saw DH. Now luckily nothing happened but she was pretty shaken up. he was following far too close if you get what I mean...not 'normal' going i the same direction.

Anyway. The whole ideology is pretty dangerous. Especially to younger girls.

DameDeDoubtance · 12/04/2017 20:19

I think we override our natural instincts too much as it is, in an effort not to offend or to be seen as a bitch, but this lowers the defences even more. Women will not even have the right to define themselves let alone compete with their own sex.

We have all got to be braver. I'm open on twitter now and I challenge this ideology where I find it, not saying that will do a lot of good but at least I know I didn't just roll over.

StrangeLookingParasite · 12/04/2017 23:07

the person who was given (they didn't win it) the gold medal is a NZer

This person is simply a cheat. They will never, never earn any medal, or win any contest fairly. They will always be a cheat.

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