ssd. There's a whole section of the feminist board devoted to threads on gender issues. Take a very deep breath before you dive in though.
Basically there's a lot of money to be made in selling medical treatments to people who wish to transition and rich organisations such as Stonewall which campaign for transgender rights, even at the expense of women's rights have managed to buy influence in political parties and governments. Eg, they donated a lot of money to the Lib Dem's.
The Scottish government and most people in public positions are now frightened of them and the SG is keen to be seen to be seen to be progressive and inclusive. They're going to reform the Gender Recognition Act so that anyone can change their sex on their birth certificate without having lived as someone of the opposite sex or had medical or psychological advice. This will mean that men who claim to be women can access women only spaces such as changing rooms and public toilets and will be patients in female hospital wards etc. Men identifying as women who commit crimes will be recorded as women. Men identifying as women can take part in female sporting events at an unfair advantage.
There have been several cases of sex offenders who have claimed to be transgender in order to access women only spaces. Most men who identify as transgender no longer change their bodies surgically and many don't change their appearance other than to dress in traditionally female clothes.
It's now dangerous to question the transgender activists (TRA's) claims that biological men who identify as women are actually women. Defining a woman as an adult human female is considered to be provocative offensive and There have been huge numbers of attacks on people brave enough to question this: actual violence, death threats, disclosing people's home addresses and work places on social media sites etc. Stonewall provides training in diversity to the NHS and many other workplaces. They say that trans identifying people are incorrectly assigned their gender at birth (by medics) and request the use of terms such as 'chest feeding' 'and 'people who have a cervix' in order to be trans inclusive. Amongst other such terms such as cis' for people who identify as the gender that matches their birth certificate. Cis women are apparently privileged and should give up their boundaries about bodily privacy so that transgender people can be included and not be offended. Women who try to question this are labelled as Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (terfs)
The SG's recent hate speech bill has transgender people amongst their protected characteristics, along with different ethnicities etc. They refused to include women in their list of protected people. Presumably it's now an offence to hurt the feelings of transgender people but it's fine to be misogynistic. Some TRA's claim that gay women who don't want to sleep with men who identify as women while still having male genitalia are transphobic.
There's been a mahoooosive rise in the number of people identifying as trans or gender fluid recently. There's a huge correlation of girls who identify as trans being autistic and a significant number of men who say they identify as women who have autogynephilia (ie they get off on presenting themselves as women).
While we're still according to NS in the midst of a pandemic, reforming the Gender Recognition Act is one of the first things they're doing. There was a public consultation which they eventually published but they only analysed and referred to responses from groups (which will include Stonewall and Mermaids) and ignored the responses of individuals. So that was a waste of public money.
I feel really sorry for transgender people who transitioned before it was fashionable and just want to quietly get on with their lives. The vocal, nasty bullying TRA's have done them and everybody else a huge disservice.