Lionel Shriver - It's not transphobic to question transgenderism

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www.spectator.co.uk/2018/09/its-not-transphobic-to-question-transgenderism/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_content=150918_Weekly_Highlights_37_NONSUBS&utm_campaign=Weekly_Highlights

Thank you, Lionel.

Great article - doesn't pull any punches. Thank you Lionel!

I think The Spectator is our only friend at the moment.

Lots worth quoting, but this stood out:

In 2009, 41 per cent of referrals to the NHS Gender Identity Development Service were female; in 2017, 69 per cent were female. That’s a huge shift. If the experience of having been ‘born in the wrong body’ is biologically innate, why is a slightly earlier cohort overwhelmingly male, the next overwhelmingly female? The only sensible explanation is social.

It's an excellent article. Well done Lionel.

But, but, she chose a bloke's name...is she sure she isn't really a man?

It reminded me of a conversation I had the other night over a few drinks with a couple of female colleagues. I have never spoken about gender stuff at work (NHS) but the subject came up and they were agog.

We had to keep going 'shhh!' and looking around the bar to see if anyone had overheard us!

I've just forwarded the link to them.

updated my Spectator login....

Go Lionel!

This isn't the first article she's written on trans stuff - she wrote a really good article in the Atlantic iirc a couple of years ago. She's been massively gender critical for years (and has probably been cast out into the wilderness as a result because she certainly doesn't pull her punches).

Reading the Spectator again for the first time since school. Those of us applying to universities with interviews were advised to have a subscription to help us with topics and debates. Then followed 20 years of reading the Guardian which I can barely bring myself to do anymore. It’s like a breath of fresh air to read actual, logical, common sense. I can’t really believe I feel so out of step with the left.

Reading the Spectator again for the first time since school. Those of us applying to universities with interviews were advised to have a subscription to help us with topics and debates. Then followed 20 years of reading the Guardian which I can barely bring myself to do anymore. It’s like a breath of fresh air to read actual, logical, common sense. I can’t really believe I feel so out of step with the left.

Yep, me too.

We absolutely do need to talk about this.

xx Lionel xx

Right that's it will subscribe to spectator. Dh and I are Lionel's biggest fans

Great piece! Thanks Lionel and OP for sharing.

Great piece.

It's interesting that she mentions dissenters in 1930s Berlin.

Another poster mentions on another thread that the cis prefix is like being told you must refer to yourself as an infidel.

I actually think "heretic" would be a more useful term and illuminates what is actually going on here: a politico/religious ideology that has essentially captured the state and the establishment and seeks to reorder society.

This whole phenomenon is like a modern Inquisition. Maybe it is time we started treating it like one.

Thank you Lionel Shriver.
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