Thread by @Mermaids_Gender

🧵THREAD: Former gender-critical campaigner, Nora became a trans ally simply by meeting & listening to trans people. 👏👏👏 A powerful story of acceptance from @IndyVoices.

independent.co.uk/voices/transge…

Do you #ListenToTransKids ?
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At first...“I read everything I could find that validated my instinct that the increase in transgender identity was a millennial fad, mental health issues, trauma, social contagion, fashion, patriarchy, you name it, I clutched at it.”
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"I stayed quiet, I watched and I waited, I saw my nephew thrive, I met many wonderful trans people who simply wanted to live their lives, I listened, and I learned, a lot. Over time my views changed.”

#ListenToTransKids
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“What I thought was a protective rejection of a new ‘woke’ orthodoxy...was actually...the same deep-rooted conservatism that has made human beings resistant to change throughout so much of our history”.

📢 Ignoring trans children is not protecting them.
#ListenToTransKids
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“I started to struggle with reconciling the arguments that the increasing numbers of trans boys coming out was due to misogyny in our society, yet the increasing number of trans girls was despite the same misogyny..."
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“GC campaigners are fighting to ensure the government insists on medical not just social transition for gender identity to be legally recognised. They simultaneously accuse trans 'activists'...of ‘shunting them’ down a medical route...trans people cannot win”.
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💙“Seeing this issue unfold within my own family
💗taught me a profound lesson:
🤍the importance of humility
💗in the face of something
💙you do not understand."

Do you #ListenToTransKids ?
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