Do you know, I have got to the point where when this topic is aired, I totally lose the plot - so many different terms, so many strident voices. Those trying to defend their rights are shooting themselves and lots of others innocent people (who are trying to sort their lives out) in the foot, as people just switch off.
I wonder how people will feel when they look back on this in 50 years.
What I can see is:
- some people feel they are the opposite gender to their genetics.
- it is hard to fathom how best to deal with this, especially for children and young people.
- the more strident the activists become, the less the subject can be dealt with sensitively for individuals.
- once a bandwagon is on the roll then reasoned discussion goes out of the window.
Interesting article in Radio Times for this week, with two mother and their different responses to their child expressing a desire to be the opposite gender. One has gone with it and the child (aged 12) has "identified" as the opposite gender and is about to embark on prevention of puberty by drugs. The other said no to all this and advised waiting - her daughter has stayed a daughter and is now happily in a lesbian relationship.
That difficult period of pre-puberty should be respected as a time of transition and uncertainty about identity and be allowed to run its course before irretrievable steps are taken.