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I had truly hoped they were pretending to be anti-trans and once elected would be like “Surprise! Rights for Everyone!” I am impossibly naive at times.

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With this Parliament being the least religious on record (over 50% of the cabinet including the PM), you'd hope that decisions would be made using evidence based research, rather than vibes and dogma.

If I was of a conspiracy theorist bent, I'd say they're doing it to keep Murdoch and the rest of the press barons on side.

btw Streeting's partner failed in their bid to become an MP, so they didn't become the first same-sex couple to serve as MP's.

https://humanists.uk/2024/07/11/highest-number-of-mps-ever-take-secular-affirmation/

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What purpose such cruelty. Do they get off on it?

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https://www.theyworkforyou.com

Find your MP. Write to them. Demand answers.

Write to the Lords. Demand answers. (I recommend Baroness Barker, for her previous work in this area: https://members.parliament.uk/member/2501/contact )

Let them know it's not "just" LGBT+ organisations that think trans people have the right to exist.

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Why are they so hateful? Transgender people are always going to exist. Why do they need to be so cruel to these people? To my thinking, being trans seems so horrifically difficult without being deprived of hope by stupidly awful people who want you to suffer as much as possible. It is beyond reason. Am I mistaken?

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I do not think you are mistaken. And you have lots of company.

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This is awful. Rather than looking at the issues of the Cass Report, they magnify them. What is going on in the UK zeitgeist that is causing them to be so wrong on this issue, from all places on the political spectrum? To eliminate the most reversible and harmless sort of care, the care that saves lives and preserves options, because of what? A vocal minority who think there is something wrong with the existence of Trans people?

To cause so much pain to young people is worrisome to me. It creates the opposite of the situation they pretend to be concerned with: forcing trans youth and their supportive parents to break the law to obtain care or to be other than themselves, on a flimsy pretext of mythological danger to them.

I can only draw the conclusion that their goal is to eliminate trans existence. But why?

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Goddammit. 😞

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Perhaps this attitude is a legacy from Britain’s centuries of colonialism.

I think that a group in power without at least one targeted scapegoat group, would be a sign of true democracy. Yay.

The urge to exclude goes way back — rooted in early child development. One goal in raising children is to help them mature beyond this stage.

Thank you for shedding light on this politically colonial attitude.

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