Like those described in the article above, this is very much a middle-class movement whose proponents have seized the opportunity to sneer at working-class people as bigoted, stupid and reactionary.
The same logic refuted abolitionism.
This is incredibly ignorant view which does not understand the trauma someone can endure when not being allowed or experience not only discrimination, but physical abuse and threats for being who he or she feels is. I wonder if people said the same thing when screaming for equal rights or other things related to racism and homophobia. That it is only opportunity to sneer at working-class people as bigoted, stupid and reactionary.
The approach might not always be the best, but at the end people want others to be what they really are, no one is screaming to shot or lynch anyone.
He's says he's a woman. Would you find it acceptable for him to use a women's refuge, be incarcerated in a women's prison, undress himself in a women's changing room, and so on, based on his self-declaration of womanhood? If yes, then you'd be indulging in a luxury belief.
> no one is screaming to … lynch anyone
> no one
Jesus Christ that’s bad, and it’s right up front in this article. Really makes it obvious the kind of audience this is written for.
There’s really only a particular kind of person that thinks it’s funny to tease trans people who don’t pass.
> Civil servants who surely have better things to do are being given LGBTQ+ education and shown training videos about how sinful it is to stop a ‘transwoman’ – ie, a fella – from using the women’s loo.
Wow it just keeps going, it rolls straight into proudly misgendering trans people, wow wow wow.
And you actually want other people to associate this kind of bullshit with you? You recommend it, you link directly to it? For shame.