David Tennant.

I've read recently that 50% of trans people deeply regret ever having surgery and 80% still suffer from pain in that area 5 years later. I actually know someone who deeply regrets it several years later.
I like and respect people who are nice, kind and caring and that goes for all people regardless of nationality disability sexual orientation size gender etc.
Basically if someone is nasty mean and spiteful I don't like them.
People's sexuality is nothing to do with me - its their personality that affects me.

I’m pleased for you, your son and his family, that everything is going well. Maddyone.

I am middle sixties, there were to openly lesbian girls in my year at my all girls grammar school.

At my all-girls school it was the two piano teachers.
The one who taught me used to sit very close to me on the piano stool and rest her hand on my thigh. I'd have been 15-16.
They used to walk home hand in hand after school.
Did it bother any of us?
No 🤷

maddyone😃
Am guessing they would both run a mile at having anything to do with Pride displays.
We have certainly gone well past that now and gay people are pretty much accepted apart from some ethnic minorities here in the UK.
Stonewall and Pride marches simply aren’t needed anymore except by the vocal trans lobbyists, fetish groups drag queens and assorted others.

Smileless2012

That's lovely maddyone .

People in all walks of life have as you say, worries and concerns as well as joys and pleasures.

I know that threads meander but this isn't a discussion about homophobia VS or transphobia, it's about the affect that a small minority of a minority group are having on the lives of women, as well as concerns about children being told they are in the wrong body.

Are you going to police everyone who talked about Pride or topics directly related to the OP or just me?

VioletSky

I would expect anyone attending Pride to absolutely understand that

Pride doesn't sound like a place for young kids.Why on earth would you take an 11 year old.Let them be children.

Kircubbin

Why not?

Does that mean we shouldn't take children to remembrance day or celebrate a coronation with them, or mourn the passing of a monarch with them?

What's the criteria that makes Pride a bad thing for children?

It's not an event I would take a child too kircubbin. It's changed and IMO has become over sexualised and doesn't present the overall positive picture it used too.

The whole meaning f Pride marches and Pride week seems to have passed you by, Violetsky.

No-one says it is a bad thing, just not suitable for young children.

Comparing it to eg Remembrance Sunsay or a Coronation is just ridiculous.

Smileless2012

Totally agree, as do our gay friends (male and female)

Pride has been hijacked, miles away from its original concept.

Of course it hasn't passed me by, I go

Being gay is sexualised? How?

Does that mean we should ban children from weddings because it is a celebration of love and relationships?

GrannyGravy13

Smileless2012

Totally agree, as do our gay friends (male and female)

Pride has been hijacked, miles away from its original concept.

Please don't speak for your "gay friends"

I'm here, I'm queer lol

VioletSky

Of course it hasn't passed me by, I go

Being gay is sexualised? How?

Don't twist what I said.

I'm here, I'm queer lol
Well I think we have all realised that, you've told us before.

There is more than one meaning to the word of course. Take your pick.

Why shouldn't GrannyGravy speak for her gay friends VS? You appear to speak for all trans or is it because you simply don't like to see anything from someone who doesn't agree with you?

The gsy people I know (including friends and our neighbours and our children's friends) are just ordinary people living ordinary lives like the rest of us.
I can't imagine any of them parading around half naked or in fairy wings 😂
They're just ordinary blokes who wear ordinary clothes same as most men.

I presume some women I've known over the years have been lesbians but just lived similar lives to the rest of us. Only one woman ever made advances to me, my one time boss when I was young (and newly married) but she realised I wasn't interested.

Callistemon213

^I'm here, I'm queer lol^
Well I think we have all realised that, you've told us before.

There is more than one meaning to the word of course. Take your pick.

That’s queer VS
I’m sure you told us you were bi.

Well I know my brother never would Callistemon for which I must say I'm thankful .

VioletSky you do not know me or my friends, how dare you tell me what I can post!!!

GrannyGravy13

Smileless2012

Totally agree, as do our gay friends (male and female)

Pride has been hijacked, miles away from its original concept.

Pride has been hijacked, miles away from its original concept.

... to the extent that now some gay people no longer feel welcome - or even safe - at this event, because it is increasingly dominated by TRAs. Both here and in the USA.

GrannyGravy13

VioletSky you do not know me or my friends, how dare you tell me what I can post!!!

GG13

I’m sure this VS is the same person who accused other posters of policing her posts.

Her comments are not worth getting upset about. 💐

GrannyGravy13

VioletSky you do not know me or my friends, how dare you tell me what I can post!!!

👏👏👏

Yes, it's a shame Dickens.

GrannyGravy13

VioletSky you do not know me or my friends, how dare you tell me what I can post!!!

I didn't but I don't think it is right to speak for others in an effort to prove a point...

I could claim to speak for everyone at Pride but I don't