J K Rowlings was shouted down when she stuck her head above the parapet a few years ago and said ..'A woman is a person with a uterus.' Several of the cast of her Harry Potter films strongly disagreed with her and the ties of their friendship were severed.
Now a high court has ruled that the definition of a woman is decided by biological sex at birth. Trans people have taken to the streets to protest. They want to be treated as women. To use female toilets, female changing rooms and to be treated as women. Do I think that's ok? I'm not sure. While I was in the London Orthopedic hospital for my last op on my arm, I was in a mixed sex ward, I didn't even notice there were men there. I was too busy trying to get better!
I can see the problem in sports, trans women seem to have an advantage, being more muscular and so stronger. There were rows in the last Olympics with a trans boxer and the women didn't want to fight him/her/?
But woman are not in favour of trans people being in women's prisons because there have been attacks and rapes. Its not an easy subject and being of an older generation, I'll admit it is beyond my comprehension.
When I was doing my nursing training, I did three months in the Maternity unit. I'd only just started as new junior nurse, when I was asked to be with a young mum, who had just given birth. I was to watch her and just be with her because her baby had been born with a deformity. The genital area was out side the body, the skin had not closed over it, so the sex was not able to be truly determined, until blood tests had been done. The midwives were afraid the mother would deliberately drop her baby. So sad and I stayed there with her till her husband had arrived and a Nurse and Dr.. this was 1962.
I feel sad for these people who insist they are in the wrong bodies, as a Christian and a Bible believer, I believe a woman is a woman and a man is a man.. so does this mean I'm prejudicial, non woke or just old fashioned?
Chrisxx
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Agree. Thank goodness some sports people have been brave enough to stand up and say something against co.peting with a man who choosesto call himself a woman, it's a shame that it had to go to court for a judge to say what is right and true
I agree too. I think it's determined genetically, not by what you decide. And I totally think it's not fair to biological women in sports to compete against a man.
I wish it was as clear cut as that for me. I 5h8nk that, as with so many things, there is always a muddled area in the middle. Many years ago I got know someone who changed their sex, undergoing painful surgery to do so, and this has made me more understanding of their situation.
It's difficult, though, to be comfortable using communal changing facilities, for either sex, regardless of which sex they were born as.
Maybe try to remember, if you consider yourself a Christian, that God created all of us...ALL OF US, no matter what color, shape, size, gender. So if you choose to deny rights to anyone, despite what your culture has taught you, you are considering yourself better qualified than God to decide. I was alive in the 1950s and can assure you that there were people who appeared to be one gender but were in fact another. I lived in a town of 25,000 people and we had them there. I am a cisgender woman, and I am glad that these particular challenges are not mine, but I am sympathetic to people who feel born in the wrong body and believe that we shouild celebrate that science has caught up enough to help them.
There is a part of me that thinks if someone identified as a man claims to be a woman, that is not an easy thing to do and wouldn’t be done lightly. Maybe the physical strength is separate from the essence of how they feel about themselves. Since the strength is an unfair advantage, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed in women’s sport.
I really don’t know…
Why is it that all the concern around trans revolves around men who have transitioned to become women? They identify as women, they've gone through hormone therapies to become women and have subjected themselves to painful operations to become women. Let them be women.
On the other hand what about women who have transitioned to become men? If you say that what gender you were at birth dictates what restroom you use then you will be sending these women who now have transitioned to be men into women's restrooms. Wouldn't you be more uncomfortable about that then having a transwoman in your restroom?
The vanishingly small minority who have gender dysphoria should not be determining the law. Nonetheless, they should be treated with respect. I fear that many homosexual people were 'persuaded' to undergo gender transformation. So silly, Gays have existed for millennia and been well documented.
I agree. Call us old-fashioned. Non-woke or even other ugly names. That's okay. It is correct. Thanks for being to willing to write about it on your blog!
I have shared facilities with trans women in the past and have been comfortable with that, but I think that there is a world of difference between a genuine trans woman and a man who puts on a dress and lipstick, declares himself trans and demands access to women only spaces and sports. They have done the trans community a grave dis-service by poo-pooing the concerns of women and trying to ridicule and silence them.
I feel sorry for those who feel they are in the wrong body . However, competing in women's sports is a tricky one. Not really fair on women with an uterus.
I find this whole topic fraught with what ifs and but thens, and have no clear opinion. It is not an easy one to figure out. I do think it wrong to sanction anyone for how they think or feel about transgender people, though. Calling it woke, prejudiced, etc doesn't solve the issue, does it? I feel like I don't have a dog in this fight, really, so I don't try to figure it out. Maybe I'm just lazy?
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