I am aware that the whole transgender thing is a particular bugbear of mine and a subject on which I

[Berni]

risk becoming a bore (or at least more of one than I am on other subjects), but it really, genuinely bothers me just how quickly an orthodoxy seems to have crept in that simply does not allow discussion of the fundamentals of this issue.

How did we get to a stage where, if a public figure refers to a transgender person by their biologically accurate personal pronoun or by their given forename, there is an outcry and apologies/sackings are demanded? How can it be that a publically-expressed degree of healthy scepticism over what is scientifically an extremely dubious matter (to say the least) is considered tantamount to a hate crime? How can we be in a situation where it is considered unreasonable that a volleyball player who is biologically a man is prevented by the sport's authorities from competing as a woman?

In short: what the f**k is wrong with everyone?

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Jake]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

First they came for BFR, but you said nothing...

[Berni]

out that someone with a functioning ***** and testicles and absolutely no female sexual characteristics whatsoever is not a woman is just a statement of fact. We are not dealing in opinions or prejudices here, we are dealing in demonstrable, dangly, meat-and-two-veg FACTS.

We are being made to conform to an out-and-out lie for fear of being thought intolerant. Even radical feminists are being cast into outer darkness or silenced on the grounds that they not unreasonably object to the idea that someone can pop on a wig, a frock and a bit of slap and call themselves a woman despite never having lived one minute as a woman in their lives.

It is genuinely - not just rhetorically - insane.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

comedians / university movement of the 80s, through the likes of the BFR incident and the climate change industry to the current trans issues, you will note that the outstanding feature is the insistence on adherence to the sacred texts with NO DISSENT ALLOWED COMRADE!

The endgame is clearly the inhibition of freedom of speech as a method of inibiting freedom of thought; destroy imagination and you destroy ambition and aspiration - and then you have the grey, unthinking turnip-growing, tractor-producing drones required for Jeremy and his ilk to be truly free to enjoy their dachas in peace.

[Monty91]

[Classic Jorge]

sorry, had to

[Pokster]

[Monty91]

I almost felt compelled to defend it, purely on your behalf.