@stumbledin
I think this is far deeper and entrenched than many realised.
It started as part of the backlash against Women's Liberation ie early 80s when women's studies became gender studies.
You have at least 2 generations of students now in positions of influence, whether media, politics, education who are a product of that education.
It was amazingly quick how much of what Women's Liberation created, not just Women's Aid, Rape Crisis, but challenge to gender stereotypes etc., where just quickly erased. This was partly done by encourage young women of the time to despise "older feminists" for being out of date, and hard line.
The GRA came in over 16 years ago, and this was possible because whilst feminism fractured, the networking and influencing of queer politics of which transgenderism is part, entrenched itself through networks of (primarily men) in positions of power.
The be kind aspect is just recent, and builds on the notion of Women's Liberation being hard nosed harridens.
Without the brain washing of for instance the word sex being supplanted by the word gender, (and prostitution becoming sex work), the notions of "identity" wouldn't have had traction.
And behind that is the aim of erasing sex not just as a concept but as a lived reality, because without sex being recognised as a class, then you dont have the basic Women's Liberationist / Radical Feminist analysis that men as a sex class oppress women as a sex class.
So its not just the current group of young people, it is their parents who were influenced by this, added to which is the affirmative parenting practice, which has allowed young people to think that because they believe something it must be true, and to question their believe is cruel (or you are just a reactionary oldie). But it you say to a young person would you run your life based on the ideas and wants of toddlers you would say no way, they dont know what they are talking about. But somehow older people or adults, particularly is they are women and just blanked out.
Until women somehow regain respect for their experience and ideas, and aren't just allowed to be followers of male expectations, nothing is going to change.
Just take the example of the BBC and the Guardian. Supposedly filled with educated people, interested in new ideas and having the room to express them. But what do they both have?
The utter conviction that what women say or do is not of much importance.
Short of the Queen coming out as gender critical and think undoing the anti woman sentiment of the past 40 years is going to be very difficult.
Would be interested to know from those with young children and young teens, assuming you are a positive female role model, how is it that so many young people totally disrespect women's autonomous ideas.
Agree with that. And most of us didn't see the threat coming, because it came from the LGB community, whom feminists tended to see as allies. But we hadn't reckoned on its capture by the TRA lobby, or on how powerful the misogyny of gay men would be, once they were no longer stigmatised for their sexuality (obviously I am pleased they are no longer stigmatised, I'm just saddened that they are using their new-found influence to punch down).
I have always been optimistic that the Queer/NB trend will die out within a generation in schools, because there is nothing so uncool as the last generation's fashions. Non-conforming kids will find another outlet to express their specialness. But it will take decades to unpick the TRA institutional capture, not to mention all the POMO bollocks.
