'Oxford divided over trans rights'

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Survey of public attitudes towards teenagers' right to define their own gender reveals most people are sceptical - or, as the Oxford woke student media put it, are transphobes! Interesting that their student union does not wish to comment, given that they have been quick to condemn gender critical academics.
cherwell.org/2020/01/01/oxford-divided-over-trans-rights-data-suggests/

The publishing of this data comes after a slew of transphobic stickers were posted around Oxford city centre during Michaelmas, echoing similar campaigns around the world. The stickers included comments such as “Woman. Noun. Adult human female,” “women don’t have penises” and “auto-gynephilia.”

Interesting bundle of assertions there.

The overall data are interesting and you can look up your own constituency.

election.unherd.com/gender/

“it is acceptable for adolescent children to make their own decisions about their gender identity.”

What does that question even mean?

If a girl saying "I'm a boy" is equivalent to "I'm a Goth", then, yes, it is entirely acceptable for her to make her own decision about that aspect of her identity. It is no different to any teenage experiment or rebellion.

OTOH if 'their own decisions about their gender identity' includes self-harm through binding, compelling other people's speech and humiliating others by removing their access to single-sex services, then, no, those decisions are entirely unacceptable, and adolescents cannot be allowed to make them.

That's an interesting website. I see I live in the #4 constituency that support that assertion. Not that surprising, given that Goldsmith's falls in our constituency.

The question is badly worded though:

"It is acceptable for adolescent children to make their own decisions about their gender identity"

I'm not sure how I would answer this. I think everyone should be able to make their own decisions about their gender identity BUT when gender identity is confused with sex and puberty blockers, binding, using facilities of the opposite sex etc become part of what this means then the answer would be no.

X-post with JellySlice. Got distracted while typing.

I'm not sure how I would answer this

This may well explain the substantial numbers who are "undecided." I'd probably have to vote similarly given the ambiguity of what is understood by "adolescent" and/or "gender identity."