> Gender ideologues complain that this shift in public tolerance is merely a conservative backlash against trans rights, but they are wrong. What we are seeing is the inevitable result of trans activists – and, most of all, Stonewall – pushing far beyond civil rights for trans people and insisting instead on unpopular and unworkable policies, such as trans women in sport, child transition and any open acknowledgement of female biology.
This is all the trans peoples fault for making us do this to them – Hadley Freeman
Why doesn’t she just be specific, instead of using euphemisms like ‘trans spell’?
Hey look transphobic bullshit on this sub, must be a day ending in Y.
It strikes me as bizarre that something as unimportant as elite sport has been used to derail the requests of trans people for rights and dignity. The trans rights movement is chiefly about treating trans people with respect in their lives in general and sport is such a minor issue.
I think you’d have to be an absolute sports fanatic to genuinely care this much about fairness in sport. People who are just opposed to the whole idea of treating trans people like well, people, seem to me to be clinging onto this sports thing because it’s one of the very few aspects of our society where a gender divide is acceptable and not seen as a problem to be overcome.
EDIT By that I don’t mean that people are agreed that the gender binary should be overcome, I accept that’s still very much a debate. I mean that differential treatment of men and women is a problem to be overcome. ie it’d be farcical to claim that transition gives a person an unfair advantage in a profession like medicine, law, accountancy, IT etc etc because these are places were women continue to experience disadvantage.
Oh the smarmy guardian writer was a terf all along. Shock
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> Gender ideologues complain that this shift in public tolerance is merely a conservative backlash against trans rights, but they are wrong. What we are seeing is the inevitable result of trans activists – and, most of all, Stonewall – pushing far beyond civil rights for trans people and insisting instead on unpopular and unworkable policies, such as trans women in sport, child transition and any open acknowledgement of female biology.
This is all the trans peoples fault for making us do this to them – Hadley Freeman
Why doesn’t she just be specific, instead of using euphemisms like ‘trans spell’?
[Critics accuse trans swimming star Lia Thomas of having an unfair advantage. The data tells a different story](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lia-thomas-trans-swimmer-data-b2049615.html)
Hey look transphobic bullshit on this sub, must be a day ending in Y.
It strikes me as bizarre that something as unimportant as elite sport has been used to derail the requests of trans people for rights and dignity. The trans rights movement is chiefly about treating trans people with respect in their lives in general and sport is such a minor issue.
I think you’d have to be an absolute sports fanatic to genuinely care this much about fairness in sport. People who are just opposed to the whole idea of treating trans people like well, people, seem to me to be clinging onto this sports thing because it’s one of the very few aspects of our society where a gender divide is acceptable and not seen as a problem to be overcome.
EDIT By that I don’t mean that people are agreed that the gender binary should be overcome, I accept that’s still very much a debate. I mean that differential treatment of men and women is a problem to be overcome. ie it’d be farcical to claim that transition gives a person an unfair advantage in a profession like medicine, law, accountancy, IT etc etc because these are places were women continue to experience disadvantage.
Oh the smarmy guardian writer was a terf all along. Shock