NoqontroI - it is an option. YOU have a choice. If you don't, contact the police.
You made a point of saying "biologically female" without knowing my niece as well as missing the fact that organisations change (see Scouts)
Keeping Kosher is actually very difficult and very costly (according to B a SiL)
"Don't want to is a good enough reason."
Never is when the roles are reversed though, is it?
We don't want women on the board. We don't want to employ a woman as she's more likely to have maternity leave. We don't want a woman in the police force as she's physically weaker etc
DrSpouse
"explain to religious Muslim dads how religion poisons everything"
Find me one and I will. I'd love to. That's the father and his ridiculous beliefs who is throwing his daughter under the bus, not 'me' though.
Yes, I'm a woman (was that a hint of PAness there?). I don't know the exact laws but none of the primary children had husbands, as far as I'm aware. If I wasn't a woman then they wouldn't have been allowed to be so 'immodest' in my company.
I wasn't trying to tell those little girls that they were wrong, their hair isn't ugly. I was trying to tell them that they shouldn't be covering their hair because a book or otherwise told them so. They should do what they wanted to do.
Sema
Excellent question. To answer, I assume that trans ideology = belief in innate gender differences.
Firstly, I hate religion. I think it's evil. It poisons everything. There is not a single instance in which religion has bettered anything. It either makes no difference or, as is usually the case, makes things much, much worse. I'm a massive anti-theist and feel either anger or pity for religious people depending on their circumstances.
I don't think that personality and a soul are the same though. I think our personality is made up of chemical balances and electrons firing and pathways in the brain and a myriad of other factors but none of these are due to a supernatural being.
I have experienced how in so many children, separated by culture and geography and other factors, girls tend to do things a certain way and boys another. There's a massive overlap but I think it's absolutely ridiculous (on a par with intelligent design) to think that men and women can be so different in so many demonstrable ways from the neck down (that's above the Adam's Apple, of course) but from the head up we must be the same. It goes against logic and my experience.
So, I believe in innate gender differences and it's a tiny step to then think that you can have someone in the wrong body.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. I see it every day when on MN or my 'other forum' for my sport which is male-dominated.
The argument comes down to nature or nurture and that is an debate we can't yet settle.
Your question about drugs ie. when a child can "trans" (is that a verb) is a difficult one and I'm glad it isn't my job to decide. It seems to me quite similar to abortion. I'm for it but no idea when it is okay and when it isn't.
Beyond
Do they walk, talk, act and believe they are a child? Assuming that they pose no risk to the other guides (and I come from the slightly unusual, on this thread at least, innocent until guilty) why not?
A physically and mentally disabled boy stayed at Beavers with my son for longer than he 'should' because it was a much better fit than moving to Cubs. It taught the other children to accept people for who they are. He wasn't the boy who stood out because of his chair or electronic voice, but just 'Dave' (not real name). He's now got a DBS check to continue to attend Cubs but certainly not as a 'helper'.