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The reality is that people didn't used to feel comfortable coming out as trans. There are parts of the UK where people still won't want to come out.

It won't be a coincidence. Ignoring people with personality disorders for a minute (who just need attention), there will be people who are genuinely trans, who feel more able to be open about it now than they used to. Just as more people come out as gay now that being gay is more accepted. I...

If you're correct, that's fine - just let them be and don't give them attention. And I imagine the genuine people will be fine with that too.

I disagree with you. I wasn't suggesting that we have absolute reference points, but we do each have a sense of what it is to be a man or woman, and we can see our we each fit into that. Some people don't feel at ease with the male/female body they've been born with. I don't think wellquick can...

So your argument then is that you don't think (some of) the claims are just. I'm sure some claims aren't just, but that's a different argument to whether people should have the right to be a man or woman. I respect people's right to identify as male/female etc, and if I ever misgender someone I...

There's an open goal right there

Ah, so this is the cause of your angst - you are living in fear day to day of accidentally using the wrong pronoun at work and getting in trouble. If you try and use the correct pronouns, but get it wrong sometimes, I'd hope your employer is understanding that it's easy to make mistakes and...

I'd actually agree with you that someone being trans just to rebel and be cool is in fact just a twat. But we're not discussing the people who are just attention seeking twats, we're discussing the genuine people who feel that they are different to the body they have. Obviously it's not...

She isn't, and your well thought out 'end of' clearly isn't actually going to end this.

That's a typical response from someone whose mind is closed. People aren't asking to be called antelopes are they. You are a man and you feel like a man, so you understand that. You don't understand what it's like for someone who feels the same as you, but who was born as a woman. It doesn't...

No, but that's not relevant to the point. Are you fighting to stop people like Katie Price messing up their bodies? So the argument there would be to help support people to ensure that people are really sure before having any surgery. I agree with you that it's obviously sad for people who...

If someone who is born a man, but doesn't recognise themselves as being a man (ie, feels the way they imagine women feel, rather than the way men feel), then why shouldn't they be able to be a woman and be called a woman? Yes it is a bit odd compared to what you're used to. So what? Lots of...