Dublin Pride ends media partnership with RTE over Liveline's Gender Identity discussion

I'd be confident that if the Trans topic was held completely separate to LGBQ, most people would express their concern over the consequences to society, and more importantly, to young people. As long as the link is continued though, people will hesitate strongly in making any such honest criticisms. Alas, the goodwill that the LGBQ community has gained in society, is slowly being eroded by the Trans movement, and their advocates.

I must admit that I roll my eyes whenever I see gender being promoted as being a social construction.. because it's not. It's grounded in the physical. It's impossible to separate the personality from the physical needs of your body. And yes, sexuality is part of that, but even without sexuality in play, I would say that your physical situation determines how you will develop. The social construction comes back to feminist theory, and even after decades, the logic is still full of holes. The big problem here is the influence of modern American psychology can be felt, along with the biased "research" that came out of the American universities. Beliefs, ideas/concepts, that were founded in bias, and people with a desperate need to stay relevant/funded.

I'm of the belief that there are two genders. Male and Female. Sex and gender are linked. Anything else is a sub-group of those two, because our development happens over decades, it's impossible to remove our experiences of our biological needs, and how that relates to our identity. The difference in having a vagina or penis is rather strong when we consider how it impacts on a persons daily life, whether you're a child or an adult.

I've spoken to, maybe a dozen, Trans people over the years in the West. And each and every time, their "original" gender is still present. They might claim to be female, but their male origin is still present in their posture, the rhythms of their speech, the way they react to disagreement, etc. They haven't switched from male to female completely.. and so they're stuck in the middle, with a bit of both, but ultimately there's no actual change. They're still males, who want to be female. Or vice versa. Little different with the self-id crowd, who change even less.. and their changes aren't even intended at being permanent. There's no commitment to their beliefs, but somehow, they're supposed to have changed? No. I have too much respect for how we develop as people.. as thinking beings... than to acknowledge this nonsense as being valid.

That's not to say that I won't pretend to believe them, and extend some respect to them in their delusions.. the same way I extend respect to those in a religion I disagree with. But I will not countenance the changing of society, or the promotion of such shallow viewpoints on influencing the development of children/teens. It's so bloody short-sighted. Just because someone is confused about their gender identity, doesn't mean that their gender can be changed. We all have too much baggage from a gender to be able to shift, and even if we could (which we can't) remove that baggage, our physical needs (including sexuality) tether us to our natural gender.

Perhaps technology, medicine, etc will change all that in the future.. it's definitely possible (the Cyberpunk world strings to mind), but the future is not now.

Social conditioning, brain washing, indoctrination can change what we believe to be true.. but it doesn't change the physical considerations, and invariably, the mind follows the body... not the other way around. Our physical needs/demands rule supreme.

I just don't know where they find the time.

I'm busy with work, paying the bills, a social life, and so on - to not even think about myself or whether I'm demigender or whatever else it may be. I certainly don't have the time to go around explaining my identity to others (do I even have an identity, hmm, no - I'm just my personality), and definitely wouldn't go around forcing others to talk to me in language I prefer. I just don't have the time.

I think some degree of emotional maturity is needed to move people away from narcissism and their own sense of self-importance and toward the bigger things in life that encourages personal responsibility, growth toward tangible goals in life, and development.

If 0.5% of the population is trans-, that would equate to 25,000 people.

Now not all of those 25,000 are male-to-female or female-to-male trans-.

Many of them are non-binary.

There is no specific and fixed definition of what it means to be Trans. You might wake up tomorrow, believe that your gender has shifted, call yourself whatever, and then, the next day, switch back to your original gender. Now, in reality, few people are going to do that, but the logic remains true, except that the day becomes a month, two months, a year, or many years. However, they can always switch back and forth.. because gender is apparently not fixed, and there is no requirement on them staying a particular gender for long, nor for them to define what that gender is.

So, you go to a teenager, who has been struggling with their sexuality, and suggest to them that they are transgender. It's a good suggestion because it's so vague.. yet, provides support and protection. Now, that teenager could be homosexual, bisexual, or simply heterosexual, but confused over societal roles. That teen could be confused and frustrated for any number of reasons... but when your teacher, your school counsellor, or whoever in authority tells you that you might be trans, what are you going to say?

Then, there is the external assessment. The psychologists who have become pro-trans over the years, the teachers who love these identity politics movements, the "enlightened" parents who have read a few pop-psych books, and who will decide that this teen/student is trans or that someone's behaviour is hiding their "true" personality, but they should be considered trans regardless of what that individual actually believes.

And that's why the numbers mean nothing. It's completely inaccurate.. because the bias exists, and what is decided to be Trans could be just about anything. The whole LGBQ community could be considered as being Trans.. it would be wrong, but depending on who you speak to, they could make the case. So.. who decides how many Trans there are in Ireland? is there a bias at play? What are the requirements? etc.

It's such a joke that this crap has been tolerated so much without being ripped apart for the logical inconsistencies.

I agree.

In other words, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater because we are justifiably critical of some aspects of what's going on in society.

That's just an assertion.

I referenced multiple polls that showed 20pc of the population support trans women entering biological female sports.

I very much doubt that, even on this major issue alone, that the GRA would have passed if put to a referendum; and that's without even considering all the other factors and implications of the legislation.