If you're on Twitter Glinner's tweeted a poll

[ConfessionsOfTeenageDramaQueen]

and he could use some help.

https://twitter.com/Glinner/status/1015272983546482688?s=20

I can’t believe ‘fine, actually’ is winning. This isn’t even about being against puberty blockers completely (which I am also) it’s about being against someone encouraging children to circumvent any medical process/parental consent to buy puberty blockers directly. It’s horrific.

There are two opposing stances (not great or insane and wrong) and only one pro option - fine actually. So the anti-blockers vote is split. A better constructed poll would be

Amazing and life saving
Fine actually
Not great
Insane and wrong

I think the way he’s put it is going to bias in favour of fine, actually.

I agree it’s a poor choice of options, but when I voted, ‘fine actually’ still had more than the other two combined

The bat signal will have gone out to the trans army who will be madly bombarding the poll. They do that every time a poll like this is published.

I had to read up about puberty blockers when my daughter was 6. Anyone who thinks that they're fine knows nothing about them.

Why that tweet advertising puberty blockers like sweets to children is allowed to stand,I don't understand.

Yes, it was in response to a company touting for business among children on social media with special offers of different drugs to prevent puberty. Clearly the market for that is only those children who have not yet gone through puberty. And you'd have to wonder what is really in those drugs if a company is willing to use those sales methods.

The TRAs of course think that this is absolutely fine. Admirable in fact.

And really don't like GL calling attention to it. That is why they are all over him like a rash.

The bat signal will have gone out to the trans army who will be madly bombarding the poll. They do that every time a poll like this is published.

I agree, I don't think twitter is the best place for a representative and knowledge poll.

It's depressing to see how many adults want to keep teens pre pubescent, though.

Urgh twitter- NOT THE REAL WORLD p**k news should had put that question in their poll.

Pointless to expect Twitter polls to tell you more than the fact that a large proportion of Twitter users are unthinking sheep. 'Tis the nature of the medium. Life in soundbites, with the depth of a reservoir in current weather conditions...

bumpling

no i meant bumping, not bumpling to rhyme with dumpling.

must put glasses on

trans people are bombarding the poll, thats hilarious, he has nearly 700k followers, more than the uk trans community.

Some people just cannot accept the majority disagree's with a vocal minority of uninformed/malicious viewpoints.

Cool story garam, but we all know Twitter is where the worldwide TRA contingent live and hunt.
Besides, why would I give a fuck about the opinion of someone who thinks dishing out damaging meds to kids on special offer is fine and dandy?

There is absolutely no way that in the real world the majority of people think it’s fine to give puberty blockers to kids. Twitter is not representative of the real world.

Twitter isn't just uninformed sheep though. There is money to be had from uninformed sheep.

Lots of people have an agenda with stuff to sell (drugs, trans awareness training, that kind of thing). And of course people in whose interests it is to have a pool of children who never get to grow up. It is a marketplace.

And to do that they need to fire up the stupid in order to further both agendas. So you get the situation where someone will deliberately engineer a disagreement with Graham Linehan for example and then use that exposure to try to sell drugs to children.

Capitalism, unsavoury characters and people looking for a solution to unhappiness. This is what you get.

I've just seen this ane expressed my views on safeguarding and child protection.

All the hard work professionals do to keep children away from abusers and then this. It is seriously disturbing.

God yes, Popchyk. Where there are great flocks of sheep, there will be wolves...

There is absolutely no way that in the real world the majority of people think it’s fine to give puberty blockers to kids. Twitter is not representative of the real world.

This.

Graham didn't even say prescribe puberty blockers, he said pitch. It says a lot about the people who think it's fine that some random on the internet is selling or persuading children to buy puberty blockers without medical supervision.

Graham Linehan is interviewed on this free to listen podcast:

twitter.com/Jarlath/status/1014201836553883648

Twitter is nuts. There's no way it's representative of the public, or we would have a Labour government and brexit wouldn't have happened. I've seen so much stuff posted on Twitter (and agreed with) that IRL would have people carefully backing away.

Long may twitter users believe that the world believes as they do. The next step is for them to march out of their twitter enclaves and tell the world at large what is the correct way to think.

I voted

Especially a random like Zinnia Jones.