Interesting thread. I am transsexual and speak out publicly in defence of women, whose rights are clearly under threat from allowing trans to mean 500,000 people instead of the 4910 currently covered by the Gender Recognition Act. About two thirds of those 4910 are transsexual women, the rest being transsexual men.
As noted earlier this is exactly the number of people predicted to the government by doctors in 2004 would qualify for the act when put into law. Yet Theresa May and the government say the GRA is not working because the other 495,000 are not applying.
These are the ones who do not have a medical condition and will not see doctors and psychiatrists to be evaluated. So they have persuaded the government to change the rules to make trans not depend on any actual diagnosis but their own belief.
This is clearly risking safety of women and that of those people themselves who might really need help.
It very much tisks 'trans children'. Up to recently very few of these per year - the ones who were transsexual - were seen by clinics and none were treated surgically until they were adults.
Now numbers have exploded beyond the level even of adult transsexual cases per year. And medication is being given whilst in primary school. The number of girls declaring as trans boys has grown far faster than the other way around and is now the reverse of the adult transsexual statistics.
Clearly this is socially driven and a serious issue that needs thorough investigation and women should be concerned about. It should not be just waved through as 'trans rights'.
In the past 90% of those children desisted and realised they were gay or simply going through a phase. Today most put on medication do not desist.
There are many very worrying things like this going on.
So even being transsexual I defend Mumsnet right to discuss this. It is vital.
Yes, some views are strong and hard for me to read and sometimes can conflate all together too much but I understand where it comes from because like plenty of transsexuals I am hated and abused, too, for saying what is simply common sense and urging the respecting of rights of others to define boundaries.
As a transsexual to be accused of transphobia is absurd. But it happens to many of us and we are routinely blocked by trans activists.
This modern activism risks removing all necessary safeguards to make it far too easy to change legal sex via a birth certificate. So letting in cases that should be risk assessed away at present.
Like Karen White who quite clearly is not a woman and should not be anywhere near women in a prison.
As a transsexual woman only too aware that sex cannot change though, by definition we do so as much as we physically can to alter our bodies and then live quietly and respectfully with those around us, I see the threat out there. It is real.
If transsexuals cannot change sex nobody who just self declares obviously can do so can they?
The question is should accommodating this legally, as now, for those with proper medical safeguarding be expanded to far more and all safeguarding removed. And that is a question Mumsnet should be discussing.