I'm somewhat tired of repeating this, but the ENTIRELY TRUTHFUL cause for concern is the proposal (from both the Westminster and the Holyrood governments) that all these years and all that work should be eliminated, and that in future (if these proposals go ahead) all that will be required to gain a Gender Recognition Certificate will be a self-declaration of being trans.
So, you approve of essentially treating transgended people as though they're mentally ill, which is what the current legislation does, and demanding they fit into a strictly-binary, culturally-defined image of "male" and "female" in order to be recognized as trans?
I'm surprised you even accept the current system, given how you've persistently demonized transpeople, and referred to them as a "trans cult".
I'm finding this objection more than a disingenuous, and your evasion of the main issue here yawningly typical for the bigoted outlook. I grow more than somewhat tired of your circumlocutions and evasions and conspiracy theories and fearmongering against transpeople. Any chance you're going to provide evidence to back up any of your assertions? No? I thought not, since we're 40 pages in and so far not a scrap.
I wouldn't even bother responding, but I know that there are other people reading these thread that may benefit from an outlook which is based in humanity and compassion, instead of fear and scapegoating.
The other point is that we are now in the position where de facto all anyone has to do even now to be recognised socially as trans is claim to be trans. The vast majority of the trans rights activists currently insisting on using women's lavatories and changing rooms and so on do not have a GRC. It has become "transphobic" to ask for a GRC or to deny the status of trans to anyone who claims to be trans.
And here we go with the boogeyman again. Care to provide evidence that this is actually happening, and that women are at more of a threat from transpeople than they are from other women?
Just as a quick question, do you demand that gay and lesbian people go through several years of medical evaluation in order to be recognized as homosexual, and that they should be required to carry a card "proving" their homosexuality? I wonder what all those women worried about transpeople in their bathrooms and changing rooms think of the fact that they can already be oogled by lesbians?
I seem to recall other groups of people before forced to carry papers or symbols that identified them as members of a particular out-group in the past, wonder if you remember how that worked out.
