I would consider myself left of centre, avowedly anti-racist and generally opposed to prejudice.
But while I respect the rights of trans people to change their names and be addressed as they wish, I still think there needs to be female only refuges, sports and prisons. If I request a female doctor, then it should be a female. All of those are my rights under the Equality Act 2010 and until the last few years, where not at all controversial.
I do not ever want to be referred to as cervix haver/uterus haver/vagina owner or bleeder as those are grossly dehumanising terms which are also inexplicable to women with learning disabilities or limited English.
And yet for those opinions, women are sacked, deplatformed and abused by those who supposedly consider themselves "woke". So that's why some have an issue with it.
JK Rowling wrote her feelings on these issues and there was a twitter trend calling for her death amongst huge amounts of other abuse:
https://medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowlin...8e01dca68d
Another author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said she felt trans women were trans women (as opposed to women) and in addition to a massive backlash had people saying the death of her parents was "punishment for her transphobia".
That brings me to my next point. If you aren't on social media that much, you are missing the way a strain of woke ideology is akin to a religion. It has priests, dogma, litanies that must be frequently recited. But unlike most religions absolutely no forgiveness for those deemed to have transgressed.
But while I respect the rights of trans people to change their names and be addressed as they wish, I still think there needs to be female only refuges, sports and prisons. If I request a female doctor, then it should be a female. All of those are my rights under the Equality Act 2010 and until the last few years, where not at all controversial.
I do not ever want to be referred to as cervix haver/uterus haver/vagina owner or bleeder as those are grossly dehumanising terms which are also inexplicable to women with learning disabilities or limited English.
And yet for those opinions, women are sacked, deplatformed and abused by those who supposedly consider themselves "woke". So that's why some have an issue with it.
JK Rowling wrote her feelings on these issues and there was a twitter trend calling for her death amongst huge amounts of other abuse:
https://medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowlin...8e01dca68d
Another author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said she felt trans women were trans women (as opposed to women) and in addition to a massive backlash had people saying the death of her parents was "punishment for her transphobia".
That brings me to my next point. If you aren't on social media that much, you are missing the way a strain of woke ideology is akin to a religion. It has priests, dogma, litanies that must be frequently recited. But unlike most religions absolutely no forgiveness for those deemed to have transgressed.