4 year olds able to change gender in Scotland

What to expect from English people?

It's random people like yourself. A combo of political lefties looking for a cause i.e. fighting for the marginalized ( that word gets under my skin for some reason), heterosexual cis gendered liberals and progressives, trans people themselves like Sam Smith, etc. As for agreeing I'd think they should get their story straight if they expect to be taken seriously.

Yes. On the one hand some say that sexual orientation is on a individual spectrum (I think that's total bollox), and some don't.

No the nonsense is stating what your pronoun is when the whole point of pronouns is that you can assume it. If you have a female name, that infers your pronoun, so their is no need to explicitly state your pronoun. You may scoff when people talk about trans 'ideology' but changing the whole point of pronouns is a perfect indicator of an ideology.

Would an activist actually have to know something about their chosen agenda they claim to an activisting for ,

Like Greta and her legion of teen global warming activists who are active in promoting their agenda ,from social media and social engagement , education , protesting , even the antivax crowd at least try (fail )

You do appear to be struggling alright, but I wouldn’t call anyone a retard in any case, nor would I capitulate to their manipulative behaviour. Far more likely I’d simply ignore them, and if they persisted, I’d likely be less polite in my refusal to capitulate to their manipulative behaviour.

You keep trying to present two completely different concepts as though they’re the same thing. Preferred pronouns has nothing to do with either being transgender, nor has the idea anything to do with being disabled, nor is anyone a victim if they cannot coerce people into behaving as they want people to behave.

In any circumstances, people are still entitled to say “No” when anyone makes demands of them that to them are unreasonable, or offensive, or which they have a fundamental objection to on the basis of their own beliefs, or the fact that they do not share your beliefs.

You clearly haven’t thought about it if that’s your argument. Your behaviour could constitute harassment, whereas a refusal to use a person’s preferred pronouns, does not.

One cannot be compelled to use preferred pronouns when referring to themselves either. Fairly simple concept to grasp, though to give you a real-life example as it were, Jessica Yanniv was of the same impression as yourself that they thought they too could compel people to behave in a way which violated their conscience and was an unreasonable imposition upon them -

In October 2019, the Human Rights Tribunal dismissed three complaints by Yaniv, noting that “human rights legislation does not require a service provider to wax a type of genitals they are not trained for and have not consented to wax.” The Tribunal also found that the complainant Jessica Yaniv had “engaged in improper conduct” and had filed complaints “for an improper purpose”.

The Tribunal found that Yaniv has a “grievance” against certain ethnic groups and targeted them out of racial animus to “punish” them for their cultural and religious views. Yaniv has made derogatory public comments about East Indians and Sikhs, as well as immigrants generally.

In one such comment cited by the Tribunal, Yaniv stated:

We have a lot of immigrants here who gawk and judge and aren’t exactly the cleanest people. They’re also verbally and physically abusive, that’s one main reason why I joined a girls gym, cause I DON’T want issues with these people, nor do I want anything to do with them in anyway, shape or form. They lie about ****, they’ll do anything to support their own kind and make things miserable for everyone else.

The Justice Centre represented five British Columbian estheticians last year at the BC Human Rights Tribunal. Three estheticians faced complaints that proceeded to litigation in July 2019, for declining to perform waxing services for Yaniv. Two complaints were withdrawn.

The first complaint hearing against Blue Heaven Beauty Lounge and its owner, Mrs. Sandeep Benipal, was heard on July 4, 2019. Benipal and her husband are adherents to the Sikh religion. Ms. Benipal is not trained to wax male genitals, and for religious and personal reasons was not comfortable doing so. Blue Heaven Beauty Lounge does not advertise waxing services for male genitalia. “It is not something I am comfortable or trained to do,” explained Banipal in her response to the complaint.

Can you understand now why you’re mistaken? You’re so zoned in on what you refer to as “trans rights”, that you don’t appear to be cognisant of the fact that everyone is entitled to human rights, and your calling anyone a transphobic asshole on the basis that they refuse to acknowledge anyone’s preferred pronouns is far less likely to be viewed as reasonable behaviour, and far more likely to be viewed as harassment.

Well that’s your own business really, same as it’s entirely your own business how you deal with it when you can’t compel other people to say what you want them to say, express opinions you want them to express, support ideas you want them to support, or do anything you want them to do.

It’s got very little to do with the topic of this thread apart from the fact that it’s being suggested to schools in Scotland as part of the guidelines that they encourage everyone in the school to participate in an ideology which they do not support, and the guidelines are suggesting that while being mindful of the rights of other children and adults, promoting the ideology takes priority above all else.

I get offended when I'm being called a homophobe and a racist. But I've no idea why disabled people are offended when I call them "r*****s", or why gay people are offended when I call them "f*****s". It's not my fault they were born that way. It's my strongly held belief and no lobby is going to force me to change it with their self-aggrandizing nonsense.

Here's Jordan Petersen getting the point.

4 year olds able to change gender in Scotland

When I was 4 years old, I couldn't even change the radio channel.

You’re not referring to any strongly held belief in the examples you give though? You’re just trying to maintain you have the right to call people whatever you like, when nobody is making that argument, because nobody has the right to call anyone whatever they like.

You’re arguing that people should be able to compel anyone to say something they don’t believe, in this case that they should be compelled to use preferred pronouns. I’ll give you another real world example of what happens when people try to compel other people to do something, and how it generally works out for them -