FFS Guardian. Shocking to try to paint this as a religious issue. On these boards alone- we can assume there are hundreds or thousands of women- and men who agree with Caroline Farrow on this one issue- and many of us won’t agree on any other issue with each other. And these are people of all religions and of no religion.
But we are happy to talk together and share information to try to safeguard our children and the children of others as best we can against the bitter realities of sexist, homophobic stereotyping- including via today’s transactivist genderisg politics which specifically targets children and young people.
We are adults who agree that it’s wrong to remove from healthy children key options from their future adult lives: like capacity for normal fertility, capacity for normal physical sexual function and the possibility of physical sexual pleasure, as well as going through normal puberty which is essential for lifelong physical and mental maturation - like skeletal maturation and laying down adult bone density. Or adult intellectual maturation, which relies on post pubertal brain.
It’s obvious that it is wrong to permanently remove fundamental attributes from children and young people (i’d say anyone under 25) at an age when the young person can’t comprehend these losses, but will have to live lifelong with the consequences of a decision made by others.
That’s why we have the concept of a child’s right to an open future.
It’s this open future that is obliterated by medical, hormonal, surgical intervention on children and young people. Along with their right to be same-sex or opposite-sex attracted in their own perfectly whole body.
Genderism tells children* they’re not authentic unless they undertake pain, risk and a lifetime of remaining a medical patient. In exchange for what?- all this immeasurable personal cost and loss, in order to try to fit in with a simulation of a tired old set of harmful sex stereotypes.
It’s just awful the more you look at it.
*and we should think carefully, about why genderism does not require the same permanent physical commitment of adults? Why is an adult lauded for coming to work in a pink lacy dress a few days a week with no suggestion whatever that they change themselves (award winning Pips Bunce) whereas ‘trans’ children are encouraged to crush their developing breasts, take puberty blockers, hormones, egg retrieval and storage, save up for a double mastectomy, hysterectomy, deal with vaginal atrophy and maybe eventually radical surgery to create a ‘penis’.. ? By harvesting skin from elsewhere on their body?
Or encouraged to tape up their penis, take blockers and hormones, save up to remove their penis and testes, have radical surgery to create a new body cavity which they have to dilate painfully to keep open?