Most of society is 'gender critical'. Very very few people believe that humans can literally change sex. Or that stating you feel like a man or woman inside makes it so.
A lot of people are polite though. And also scared to talk about it.
Very good point, NiceGerbil. It’s very difficult to talk about unless you know someone is already receptive, especially in some settings. It’s also difficult because it’s so hard to talk about it in a rational way - simply because people who aren’t up to speed with it all will find it hard to believe what you tell them. I know I didn’t when I first came across it all on an AIBU thread.
How many people, even now, know that the vast majority of “transwomen” retain their male genitalia? (How many even know that “transwoman” even refers to a person of the male sex? Some think it’s a biologically female trans person.)
How many know that you can get a new, legally falsified birth certificate as a result of the GRA?
Or that a very high number of biologically male trans people are sexually attracted to females, the same females they are demanding the right to share communal changing rooms and showers with?
How many know about the medicalisation of children - the fact that even though a woman in her 20’s can’t get sterilised and a woman in her 30’s with crippling endometriosis can’t get a hysterectomy on the NHS in case they change their mind about wanting (more) children, up till very recently teenagers or even girls as young as 9 or 10 could be put on a medical pathway that would effectively sterilise them?
And that that only changed because of a group of brave individuals, including one detransitioned young woman and a worried parent, crowdfunded for a judicial review? Not because of any monitoring or concerns raised by those who were supposed to be responsible for these children within our state funded healthcare system.
How many people know anything about the levels of institutional capture - the way the major political parties, the police, the CPS, the BBC, the media, academia, schools, the NHS, the BMA, the RCN, and countless massive corporations, businesses and shops all over the UK have been “Stonewalled” and are busily promoting and applying transactivist ideology?
How many know that the concept of the “male lesbian”, complete with penis, is no longer a sexist bad joke from the 70’s but something that progressive, liberal minded people are supposed to take seriously, and that lesbians themselves - especially young lesbians - can be ostracised from their own communities for not going along with?
That’s before you’ve even got near the subjects of sport, prisons, hospital wards, thoughtcrime, “misgendering” as “hate speech” and all the rest. And the hostile takeover of feminism itself. And the irony of an ideology that promotes the destruction of women’s and girls’ boundaries, that unilaterally takes away their right of consent, being hailed as actually desirable and progressive in this post #metoo age.
How many people in the UK - especially women, many of whom are just too damn busy juggling work, wifework, children, other caring responsibilities, and trying to have some semblance of a life of their own to delve into all this - actually have any idea about all of this? And how do you start that conversation?
There was a deliberate strategy of pushing this through on the quiet, or tacked onto gay rights, so that people wouldn’t know all this.
There’s still a lot of catching up to do for a lot of people. And the more sunlight there is on it all, the more gender critical people there will be.