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It's really difficult topic, at the moment. It seems to have mushroomed in the last few months.
As a result, the feminist boards are being inundated with tactical manoeuvres to distract, derail and undermine. (With the singularly significant omission of a credible counter argument). Which accounts for the suspicion of new posters!
In terms of the issue, this isn't something that has happened overnight, but you are now seeing the results of quite a few years of quiet, but relentless transactivist 'marketing'.
As the results become more ridiculous, frequent and mainstream, people are suddenly waking up to what it all means, in real life.
I think you mentioned the Transgendertrend schools' guidance? It was written to counteract the propaganda that is been fed into primary and secondary schools, at the moment.
It takes the stance that all children should be treated with the same amount of respect and dignity.
Not that someone identifying as trans should be treated in a special or elevated way. (Something, that if you read the information sent out by trans pressure groups, is very prevalent.)
And that gender nonconformity is entirely normal. Given that 2000 children are year are showing up to gender clinics and only a fraction of them will be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, there are an awful lot of confused children around.
The guide also specifically talks about the equality act. As much as it needs to be fair to everyone, not just people protected by 'gender reassignment'.
The equality act has sex as a protected characteristic, and also gender reassignment as a protected characteristic.
(Gender reassignment is a misleading term, because it can mean you have just told somebody that you are trans. That's it. By using the words 'the process of becoming trans'.)
There has been a cultural shift to interpret the equality act as elevating the rights of gender reassignment, over sex.
This can be challenged.
And public perception also needs to change. People have become conditioned to accept the trans-pressure group narrative.
The laws were originally designed for the privacy of a specific transperson (human rights court, I think). Because they wanted privacy as to their original sex when changing jobs. And it was thought that, given there were only about 5000 transsexuals, it would be a negligible bit of legislation.
Cut to today, when men are competing as women, girl guides are housing boys and girls together, all women shortlists are under threat, rapists are being transferred to female prisons, 2000 children a year think they are the opposite sex, and every cross dressing fetishist in the country, (who is as far from transsexual as you could possibly be) is jumping on the bandwagon.
Then there are all the misogynistic, bullying men who are flocking to the movement as a means of telling women to shut the fuck up. And your common or garden voyeurs, predators and pervs taking advantage wherever they can dream up a place to do so.
In terms of self identification: It's a legal way of acquiring the 'sex' woman. At the moment, you have to be over 18, have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and live as the opposite sex for two years. There is cross-party support to eliminate all three criteria. So just download a form and post it off. Your gender recognition certificate arrives in the post the following day.
That piece of legislation has a direct impact on prisons and all women shortlists.
It's the equality act that has the impact on sport and sex segregation.
Women are organising collectively, over both issues. To preserve sex segregation and to maintain the criteria for a gender recognition certificate.
But. It is public opinion and making people understand that is pivotal.