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Urmstongran Sun 24-Nov-19 10:51:20

Posted too soon.

I meant to add ‘without it meaning something else’!

Urmstongran Sun 24-Nov-19 10:50:03

Me too.

Can we still say that these days?!

Gonegirl Sun 24-Nov-19 10:41:30

Completely agree with annsixty.

Galaxy Sun 24-Nov-19 10:39:09

The lib dems hold many policies which damage women , they support prostitution being made legal, support self ID, and are utterly opposed to age verification for porn.
Misogyny runs through the party.

Rocknroll5me Sun 24-Nov-19 10:29:41

In normalising the transgender position and exceptionalising the gender conformism of ‘being happy in the biological sex one is born with’ where sex and gender are the same, also, I think raises problems of it’s own.
So many women are not happy with the restraints their gender brings with it, culturally, historically. There would be no sexual revolution, no feminism without dissent and a redefining of gender. This is its danger. It hints at a self satisfied acceptance of all the limitations of gender expectations in society as well as reinforcing the dependency on the male. Make gender conform to sex. Don’t change sex to confirm to gender.

MawB Sun 24-Nov-19 10:23:28

Annsixty isn’t she just?
I keep hoping all this havering will just go away if I ignore it long enough.
What what a god given opportunity for the LibDems toprofit from the other extremes - and thrown away.

annsixty Sun 24-Nov-19 10:17:05

I would score a line through any form containing this nonsense.
I am a woman, pure and simple.
I dont need clever , up themselves, correct people to define me in any other way.
Jo Swinson is destroying the LibDems single handedly.

Urmstongran Sun 24-Nov-19 10:15:16

To be honest I’ve gotten so confused by all the definitions and after reading articles where surgery for ‘transitioning’ I think it’s called, has upset greatly those who have changed their mind and now want to ‘go back’ to what they were before, I’ve given up thinking about the subject any more.

Some of these articles shared personal profiles from people that they were in a bad place, were listened to far too readily and offered hormones and surgery when, with hindsight they probably had mental health anxieties and time would have helped, giving them time to ‘grow up’.

TerriBull Sun 24-Nov-19 10:13:25

pronoun adjective

TerriBull Sun 24-Nov-19 10:04:18

I've been listening to Jo Swinson being interviewed by Andrew Marr, the subject of trans rights came up. She used the CIS pronoun several times to differentiate between trans women and women per se. Most of the wider public are not aware what CIS means, a friend of mine had to complete a form at work where she was asked to classify herself, several options "CIS" being one of them, she had to seek clarification as she had no idea whether she was one or not confused Why is the word woman not an adequate enough description to the majority of the female population who will remain in the sex they were assigned at birth?