@mrkhtake2 @egipam @TriciaFrasman
1/9 I’m a heterosexual man, father and grandfather to girls. I like women as friends and lovers, most of my friends growing up were female. Being born in 1953 could have been difficult but my parents were, somewhat unusually for the time, very
1/9 I’m a heterosexual man, father and grandfather to girls. I like women as friends and lovers, most of my friends growing up were female. Being born in 1953 could have been difficult but my parents were, somewhat unusually for the time, very
2/9 open and accepting of people of different races and ethnicities (my father was a docker and had a friend who was a German ship’s captain who came to our house to eat with us, so you can imagine the comments he received!) so it’s not strange that I grew up with the same values
3/9 of freedom of thought. However, I find that my tolerance levels are being stretched to breaking point when I read about the nonsense (I’ve chosen that word carefully) that’s going on around the current topic of transgender. I believe that if someone genuinely believes that
4/9 they are born in the wrong body they have the right to be transsexual, after very careful examination of their reasons and then opt for surgery. They cannot pick and choose whether they identify as female one day and male the next! This, I think, demeans women, who have
5/9 enough to put up with from misogynistic men, and causes massive upset. From what I’ve read and considered recently the transgender lobby has been abusive to anyone who doesn’t agree with their agenda. There are two sexes, male and female. There are intersex people, which I
6/9 didn’t realise until fairly recently, so thank you to those brave people for educating me. Males have penises and females have vaginas (I know there a lot more to it than that but for ease I’ve used that description) if you are born that way and if you don’t change that
7/9 surgically (see above) then that’s the way you are. Sorry. So for the transgender lobby, stop accusing people of transphobia if they point out these facts. They are not transphobic, they are sharing their opinion. Opinions that come from deep research and investigation, not
8/9 what we used to call back of fag (cigarette!) packet thinking. If you are male and wish to dress in female attire, do not expect to walk into a female toilet or changing room and not expect some reaction! As a male, I wouldn’t want a woman identifying as a man coming into my
9/9 safe space so don’t expect to do it to a woman, they have enough worries about abuse as it is. This has been a bit of a stream of consciousness thread so if I’ve made mistakes, sorry!
