Only one third of Scots back gender change at 16

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I'm making the best of my subscription today:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/only-third-of-scots-back-gender-change-at-16-s7f92jrz8?shareToken=959cccc10ba35ecbb302e22c2a6bb0e6

Thanks. I bet it would be far less than one third too if the public had the whole picture.

When we were leafleting around the time of the GRA consultation in my home city (in England) some of the public thought:

A transwoman is a woman who wants to be a man, because of the use of the word woman in tw.

Some don't realise that 80-95% of people under Stonewall's transgender 'umbrella' retain their male genitalia

Plans include any male being able to change with, use the same facilities as women and girls, regardless of religion or age.
Some of the fathers were concerned that grown men will be able to change alongside their young daughters.

None of the public really knew what the proposals meant because it was so stealth, with advocates hoping it would slip through and that the public would be oblivious, duped, befuddled by doublespeak or scared at being branded a phobe.

Then we turned up

I m Scottish and yeah I would say that's far too young, most kids this age don't even know what they want to do with there life when they leave school let alone what gender they would like to be.
It's a far too emotional time for them to make a life changing desicion

Thanks. I bet it would be far less than one third too if the public had the whole picture

This^ I'd be interested to know what the wording of the questions were too - when the questions are clear about what is being asked there is much less support.

When we were leafleting around the time of the GRA consultation in my home city (in England) some of the public thought:

A transwoman is a woman who wants to be a man, because of the use of the word woman in tw.

Before I started reading these boards, this is what I thought. When I heard "Transwomen are women" I assumed it meant women taking testosterone were still women and needed to use facilities like any other woman.

I knew about Gender Recognition Certificates but thought they were for transsexual people like Julia from the BBC2 documentary who was very dysphoric and had surgery on her genitalia.

I had no idea that it involved anyone outside that small group, or that it was possible to change all your identifying documents such as passports, without a formal change of sex.

I thought I was reasonably well informed. Who knew.

Since then, my DD has house shared with someone who has Asperger's and is transgender which seems to involve wearing skirts but reverting to male when DF picks them up. DS has gone out with a transgender person who went for full surgery and from a massively positive start has gone worryingly quiet. And my bestie's DD's bestie is now a boy called Kai.