10-28-2021, 02:36 AM
@"guohua" Hi! Thanks for your comments and the opportunity to reply. The numbers I listed are from a 2019 survey of 21,000 high school students and I will agree things are probably better at the college/university level.
As for your linked article, to the outside observer especially those in the U.S., a little context and backstory is needed to understand what is going on in the UK which has become ground zero for anti-trans discourse and the epicenter of the TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminists) AKA the “gender critical” ideologies and agendas.
Here is an analysis of the BBC story that explains how this is nothing but poorly researched, highly biased disingenuous journalistic propaganda. Basically, it was based on a survey done by an anti-trans group of eighty (80!!) radical lesbians whose group wants to get the L out of LGBT and with input from the LGB Alliance, a supposedly pro gay group whose focus and agenda is entirely anti-trans.
[video=youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oprjb_ljVqQ&t=250s[/video]
The BBC has been taking a lot of heat for uncritically platforming anti-trans campaigners and organizations, spreading misinformation about the Stonewall and Mermaids charities and falling short of editorial standards.
BBC slammed for failing LGBT+ people – especially trans lives – in damning open letter
Here’s what other sources are saying:
(Note for the unaware: In the context of trans discussions “cis” as in cisgender is a Latin prefix used scientifically to mean on the same side as or the opposite of trans – across or on the other side of. It simply means not transgender.)
Cis lesbians condemn BBC for ‘transphobic campaign’ after shameless attack on trans women
The BBC is getting slammed for article claiming trans women rape lesbians
BBC rigorously defends anti-trans article blisteringly condemned by thousands as ‘fake news’
[Soapbox]What most people don’t realize is that the so called “trans community” is anything but some organized, unified, monolithic entity and in fact is divided into several different, diverse and opposing factions or the fact that “gender dysphoria”, the diagnosable medical condition that drives people to be trans comes from two distinct and unique etiologies: innate and acquired. These deprecated distinctions were once called such things as true and pseudo transsexualism, primary and secondary transsexualism, early and late onset transsexualism and more contentiously since the late 1980s, homosexual and non-homosexual transsexualism known as HSTS and AGP.
People generally don’t know this because it is verboten to discuss within the TRA’s (trans rights activist) ideology which promotes the concept we’re all one big all the same happy family holding hands under the nebulous transgender umbrella and singing Kumbaya around the campfire when nothing could be further than the truth.
Those that question this narrative are branded as elitists and heretical separatists ignoring the historical facts that two distinct groups of trans people have been studied and documented for well over 100 years in but the modern context, these facts are completely ignored because 85% to 90% of the “trans community” has been co-opted and colonized by people that 45 and even 20 or 15 years ago would have not even been considered genuinely trans and denied medical transition.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a total shitshow and those of us snobby elitists in the 10% to 15% minority are goddamn tired of it. I doubt anyone is interested in learning more about this so I’ll step off my soapbox for now unless someone wants to know more?
Mr @"Ninurta", thanks for your comments. I'll reply to you later tonight!
As for your linked article, to the outside observer especially those in the U.S., a little context and backstory is needed to understand what is going on in the UK which has become ground zero for anti-trans discourse and the epicenter of the TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminists) AKA the “gender critical” ideologies and agendas.
Here is an analysis of the BBC story that explains how this is nothing but poorly researched, highly biased disingenuous journalistic propaganda. Basically, it was based on a survey done by an anti-trans group of eighty (80!!) radical lesbians whose group wants to get the L out of LGBT and with input from the LGB Alliance, a supposedly pro gay group whose focus and agenda is entirely anti-trans.
[video=youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oprjb_ljVqQ&t=250s[/video]
The BBC has been taking a lot of heat for uncritically platforming anti-trans campaigners and organizations, spreading misinformation about the Stonewall and Mermaids charities and falling short of editorial standards.
BBC slammed for failing LGBT+ people – especially trans lives – in damning open letter
Here’s what other sources are saying:
(Note for the unaware: In the context of trans discussions “cis” as in cisgender is a Latin prefix used scientifically to mean on the same side as or the opposite of trans – across or on the other side of. It simply means not transgender.)
Cis lesbians condemn BBC for ‘transphobic campaign’ after shameless attack on trans women
Quote:Prominent cis lesbians have accused the BBC of amplifying a “transphobic campaign” and contributing to a “baseless moral panic”.
The criticism comes after the BBC published an article, “We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women“, claiming that cis lesbians are being coerced into sex by trans women.
The 26 October article has been widely denounced by the wider LGBT+ community for relying on a small study carried out by a known anti-trans campaign group to back up its claims, including by more than 10,000 people who have signed an open letter to BBC management.
The criticism also hones in on the fact that the BBC continues to platform anti-trans charity LGB Alliance, which the public broadcaster has received backlash for in the past. In fact, the BBC has previously been branded “institutionally transphobic” by senior MPs, LGBT+ campaigners and public figures for its anti-trans coverage.
The BBC is getting slammed for article claiming trans women rape lesbians
Quote:The BBC is receiving a huge backlash for publishing an anonymously sourced article that quotes transphobic hate groups to claim that transgender women are threatening and shaming lesbians into having sex with them. LGBTQ organizations say that the article could be used to deny transgender rights by relying on the stereotype that trans women are sexual predators…
The pro-trans watchdog group, Trans Media Watch (TMW), noted that some of the tweets quoted in the article were part of a “false flag” campaign intended to vilify the trans community as pressuring others into having sex with them.
The TMW wrote of the report, “Either the BBC have failed to do due diligence on this story – or the team producing this story have knowingly colluded in a disinformation campaign targeted at trans people… Irresponsible reporting like this is dangerous. It significantly and adversely impacts trans people’s day-to-day lives.”
BBC rigorously defends anti-trans article blisteringly condemned by thousands as ‘fake news’
Quote:At time of writing, more than 10,000 people have signed an open letter to BBC upper management and editorial staff, criticising the article for suggesting that “transgender women generally pose a risk to cisgender lesbians in great enough numbers that it is newsworthy” when the reality is this is “a matter of incredibly rare, isolated experiences”.
“The article uses a deeply flawed study that doesn’t meet BBC guidelines, and anecdotal accounts from known transphobic hate groups who actively campaign for transgender people to lose their legal recognition as their gender,”
[Soapbox]What most people don’t realize is that the so called “trans community” is anything but some organized, unified, monolithic entity and in fact is divided into several different, diverse and opposing factions or the fact that “gender dysphoria”, the diagnosable medical condition that drives people to be trans comes from two distinct and unique etiologies: innate and acquired. These deprecated distinctions were once called such things as true and pseudo transsexualism, primary and secondary transsexualism, early and late onset transsexualism and more contentiously since the late 1980s, homosexual and non-homosexual transsexualism known as HSTS and AGP.
People generally don’t know this because it is verboten to discuss within the TRA’s (trans rights activist) ideology which promotes the concept we’re all one big all the same happy family holding hands under the nebulous transgender umbrella and singing Kumbaya around the campfire when nothing could be further than the truth.
Those that question this narrative are branded as elitists and heretical separatists ignoring the historical facts that two distinct groups of trans people have been studied and documented for well over 100 years in but the modern context, these facts are completely ignored because 85% to 90% of the “trans community” has been co-opted and colonized by people that 45 and even 20 or 15 years ago would have not even been considered genuinely trans and denied medical transition.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a total shitshow and those of us snobby elitists in the 10% to 15% minority are goddamn tired of it. I doubt anyone is interested in learning more about this so I’ll step off my soapbox for now unless someone wants to know more?
Mr @"Ninurta", thanks for your comments. I'll reply to you later tonight!
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.