How can she be a TERF when nothing she said was about trans women? It was about puberty blockers and she termed trans young people as little mixed up kids.

When I asked why she was being called a TERF I wasn't at all condoning what she said or even disputing that she is transphobic. It was the use of the term TERF to describe her that I questioned. I understand the term to mean a feminist who holds the view that transwomen are not women.

OK, sorry for misunderstanding you Colm. Yeah, I believe that was the original definition, but it has since broadened to include basically anyone who is anti-trans.

Cancel culture type activism actively harms the causes it supposedly supports. This is why it should be rejected. Remember, marriage equality was not won this way.

Seriously, the past decade has been a disaster from the view of progressive political strategy. It has produced nothing but support for Trump, DeSantis and people like them. Let's just rewind 7-10 years and begin again from there.

Cancel culture only doesn’t work because it doesn’t exist. Roisin Murphy allegedly cancelled looking at her best chart position in decades. Those who claim to be cancelled and silenced are extremely loud.

I'm intrigued by that as I'm not sure I can think of any examples where an ordinary person has been affected by cancel culture. Do you have any situations in mind?
I can definitely think of situations where an ordinary person is held accountable for the way they've acted at the time within their employment etc but I wouldn't really count that as being the same as 'cancel culture'

In my opinion you should allow DNA testing for children in advance of puberty blockers. If a young boy has gender identity issues, and we find out he actually has XXY or XXXY chromosomes or something like that, then there'd be a LOT less controversy over him getting puberty blockers and maybe eventually transitioning. You can't argue with biology and an actual DNA test. People would understand it a lot more if it's someone who has an actual biological condition. If it's a "normal" kid people are worried they've been manipulated into it.

And if it's found out that they have usual chromosomes then there should be mental health evaluations first before going to transition. A shockingly high amount of trans people have been victims of sexual abuse in early childhood, and it's at a MUCH higher rate than non-trans people. So that suggests being a victim of sexual abuse as a young child may cause gender identity issues in the victim. Correlation does not equal causation, but the correlation is there, so that needs to be addressed, it's harmful to ignore this fact, people out there are struggling and need help. And accidentally transitioning someone who temporarily thinks they might trans when they're really not will cause even more suffering to an already damaged person.

Also, you guys can pretend to misunderstand what I'm saying all you want. But I'm not going to check this thread again (at least not for a few weeks), so ridicule me all you want. I know there will be people reading who will understand what I mean, that's what's important, and how we can resolve this issue.