I posted some links you could have read, but I will give you some more.
I did read your earlier links, but you added a lot more about what you apparently think political correctness means, and what the left generally believe. Thanks for giving me something to work with anyway. Let’s get started:
Most lefty dudes defend trans women playing against women in sports. The science does not support the notion that cross sex hormones significantly reduce the male advantage https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jul/19/transwomen-face-potential-womens-rugby-ban-over-safety-concerns
I’m not sure what lefty dudes you’re been talking to, if any, but I don’t know any who would say that trans woman should play women’s sport regardless of the impact on the sport, fairness and certainly not compromising safety.
The article says that world rugby is changing the criteria for trans women to play in light of new evidence over safety. That’s absolutely right, IMO, and the lefty paper Guardian doesn’t suggest overwise either. It’s political correctness gone... very sensible apparently.
The women fighting to maintain single sex sport are considered TERFs (whether they are feminist or not). It is not politically correct to talk about the male advantage in sports if the male in question identifies as a woman.
Once labeled a TERF this type of abuse is seen as acceptable, even justified https://terfisaslur.com/
No that kind of abuse is never acceptable. It’s not acceptable to the left in general, and it’s certainly not PC.
These people are arseholes. Some men are arseholes, some women are arseholes and some trans people are arseholes. Being an arsehole is one thing at least that’s always been equal opportunity.
I’m afraid there’s always been some conflict between some of the L and some of the T in the LGBT community. Now there’s similar shit between some feminists and trans activists, and as always the loudest voices picking fights get the most attention.
It’s also quite likely that some are just trolls who are deliberately stirring shit up.
Clearly there’s issues where women’s rights and trans rights have to carefully weighed, but they don’t seem insurmountable. Time to end hostilities and work this all out. They should be on the same side.
You continue to claim that a 4000% increase (mostly girls) is down to societal acceptance, without considering the reasons girls might have to begin hating their bodies once they near puberty. The average age a kid is first exposed to porn is about 11.
Because of puberty probably. Isn’t that when you’d except them to start thinking about these things? And since when has porn been a PC thing?
There is also social contagion to consider, girls are more susceptible to social contagion. It is not politically correct to study social contagion https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/new-paper-ignites-storm-over-whether-teens-experience-rapid-onset-transgender-identity
The article you said there were questions about the methodology. Specifically that they only interviewed parents, and those interviews were from advertising on websites for patents already concerned. As the editor said:
On Monday, PLOS ONE announced it is conducting a postpublication investigation of the study’s methodology and analysis. “This is not about suppressing academic freedom or scientific research. This is about the scientific content itself—whether there is anything that needs to be looked into or corrected,” PLOS ONE Editor-in-Chief Joerg Heber in San Francisco, California, told ScienceInsider in an interview yesterday.The obvious question here is whether the dysphoria really had a “rapid onset”, on whether the parents only became aware of it suddenly?
This 4000% increase is not in children who think they're in the wrong body from 3 or 4 yrs old, it's kids at the beginning of puberty.
Would you think it more normal for children of 3 or 4 to be worrying about all this?
It is not politically correct for clinicians to try to help young people feel comfortable in their own bodies before moving on to more permanent procedures. Dr Ken Zucker was fired for not adopting affirmative care, because he knows that about 80% of young people with gender dysphoria will grow out of it if allowed to proceed with their natural puberty. https://www.thecut.com/2016/02/fight-over-trans-kids-got-a-researcher-fired.html Zucker sued CAMH and won https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/camh-settlement-former-head-gender-identity-clinic-1.4854015, but his clinic was still shut down, and the affirmation only approach is now the norm everywhere because it is politically incorrect to think that some kids might grow out of their gender dysphoria.
The article says he was fired over a specific allegation of inappropriate conduct. Sounds like a disgruntled patient got him fired, not political correctness. Possibly with some particularly hardcore trans activists, who I doubt represent the trans community in general.
I've tried to stick to sources that are acceptable to the left, but they tend not to write articles that will piss off the woke, so sorry for this Federalist article. It is well sourced with links to studies https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/12/u-s-doctors-performing-double-mastectomies-healthy-13-year-old-girls/
As I said before, I’m also very concerned about this. There needs to be much more rigorous screening to make sure it’s really the right thing for them.
Personally I think it might be better to live in your body a bit before changing it. Wait a few years then try going out, getting drunk, getting laid, etc. before deciding. Although I understand it’s not quite that simple.
That's probably enough for one post. I hope you read some of the articles.
Yeah, but it’s interesting that this all about trans activism. Trans rights are only a part of the whole political correctness thing, and activism is really a step further than that.
Just as you can be PC without being a militant feminist. Which was what many people (mostly men) used to complain about it, of course.
So what about all the other stuff?