I think we have to face up to the fact thatnobidy knows how to meet the corrent historical moment without thing devolving into chaos and those that think they do either have beliefs that have not yet been tested or are lying to themselves

Hey hey hey hey let's not let this news distract us from what's really important - writing and billion think pieces about how Generation Z is wholeheartedly and uncritically embracing the far right

I think it's simpler than that. The gender revolution - metoo, trans rights, intersectional feminism challenged the authority of a lot of left wing community leaders and gender critical ideology is a set of tools you can use to oppose that challenge

Midway through collecting the census they changed the rules so trans people had to give the sex they were born as.

So there was a high profile message to trans people that you can be the gender you think you are, or you can voluntarily tell a hostile state that you're transgender, but not both

Are you sorry?

The manager of a local gay club learned fast that you do actually lose business from trans people if you argue for a bathroom ban

My mother in laws experiment with misgendering me ended when I made it clear I would not visit her if she did

A big issue comes down to "i don't want to be an asshole"

There's a big effort in the UK to convince people it's possible to support trans people without acknowledging their transition.

It's convinced a lot of people this year but seems to be falling apart because we're not playing along.

Most professions think everyone else in their field is an idiot. Every nurse has a story about a doctor who nearly killed a patient. Every plumber says the last plumber you got in broke your pipes. Every lawyer thinks other lawyers can’t read. Most notable exceptions are cops and elite journos

Children buying vape and cigarettes is bad if they get addicted obviously and fuck the companies marketing to them but its good fir children to smoke, shoplift, fareskip, do graffiti and break laws theyve been told not to. At some stage kids need to learn that crime can be okay

Nah fuck it the hrt bit is fine too why not people should live a little there are worse drugs to try

There was a while where it seemed like this would go through on the nod, and yeah, I think that for the first few months after the Supreme Court ruling GCs thought trans people would simply go away now. All those articles about how they'd reached a workable compromise