bitofacow
Thank you for responding. The subject is highly emotive and people's opinions become polarised as a result.
Lots of people know some, perfectly lovely trans-women and teenagers who are struggling. So when they see a criticism of the ideology they simply don't understand why.
I understand your political stance is telling you to support it. In fact most of the women who are transcritical on here are indeed left of centre. And also struggle to align themselves with what they see as a right wing position.
But once you drill down into the ideology, you see it is regressive, not progressive. It is saying that performing femininity is what makes a woman. And if you are a girl who doesn't want to do that, you must be a man.
We've had several parents on here with trans children who have found the logic used very helpful. This is not a logical ideology.
I don't think any of them would tell a teenager who is struggling that they are stupid. But telling they are wrong, I believe, is the correct thing to say.
I have read many accounts of people, mostly girls, who have detransitioned. They all thought that their lives would indeed completely change because they utterly, utterly believe that they could be a man.
When they found that saying you are a man, dressing like a man, and acting like a man doesn't change anything because it can't really, their disillusionment was profound.
They had to go back to the drawing board to examine all the reasons why they wanted to transition in the first place.
There is a significantly larger percentage of autism in number of boys who transition. One said he always felt as though he never belonged, and people told him he was the odd one out. When he discovered transgenderism he jumped on it as it was a way of explaining why he didn't fit. He was in the wrong body! So he transitioned, and still didn't fit. Because that's not the reason.
People transition for vastly different reasons. Young girls to escape the gender role, young boys because they are often gay and effeminate. Older men because they have sexual fetish. You rarely, rarely see older women transitioning. Why is that?
And yes I do believe transactivists are pushing the agenda. And yes for dubious reasons. You don't see female transactivists.
And lastly. I can't find a single incidence of a transwomen being attacked in a male bathroom here.
It is a multilayered ideology. And I'm almost all-points it is damaging. The few people who have gender dysphoria, transition and are then happy are becoming a significantly small percentage. And it is absolutely not them who are making it political.