Are The Trans Figures Scewed?

[youngmafbog]

//Carl Heneghan, director of Oxford University's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, said the ONS findings could be 'biased' because it does not do fieldwork to test their validity.//

//Dr Biggs claimed this question was decided upon after consultation with pro-transgender rights lobby groups and the ONS 'never thought about how a Bangladeshi grandmother or a Hungarian plumber will think about this question'.//

Seems the usual stats rubbish in rubbish out!

[naomi24]

//cancelling drag shows for kids //

Good. This rubbish robs children of their childhood.

[sp1814]

TTT

Such as?

We're talking about specific provisions made for transgender people to the exclusion of everyone else.

I once saw someone complaining that the term mother and father on official (I think) council documents had been changed to parent 1 and parent 2. Is that th kind of thing you're referring to?

[sp1814]

naomi24

I'm not sure if you're serious there or playing Devil's Advocate to advance the discussion.

If you *are* serious - in what way do you think it robs kids of their childhoods?

Would you extend the ban to pantomimes? Kids have been going to Mother Goose (etc) for decades - never seemed to do any harm.

[naomi24]

I am absolutely serious.

[sp1814]

naomi24

In what way do you think it robs kids of their childhoods?

Would you extend the ban to pantomimes? Kids have been going to Mother Goose (etc) for decades - never seemed to do any harm.

[ToraToraTora]

SP: "I once saw someone complaining that the term mother and father on official (I think) council documents had been changed to parent 1 and parent 2. Is that th kind of thing you're referring to? " - well that's a symptom of it certainly. Some TROB council official has decided that Mother and Father are so yesterday!

[CoolBritannia]

"cancelling drag shows for kids "

Mad really, some groups of people go into a silly hysterical uncontrolled bizarre meltdown over identity change such as troops of Morris Dancers blackening their faces (screams of racism) yet are totally sweet with say men pretending to be female!

[ToraToraTora]

oh no they they're not!

[sandyRoe]

Aren't there some pantomime dames who 'rest' for much of the year when not engaged in their seasonal employment?
It would be a shame to deny them the right to work.

[douglas9401]

Pantomimes have created a generation of those who believe that an attack from the rear will be announced by all around the victim.

Not the way to raise special forces recruits.

[sp1814]

Ha ha...I can see where this thread is going, and I accept responsibility for the errant swerve.

As you were

;-)

[sandyRoe]

Do 'trouser roles', travesti, attract the same criticism? What wrong with a young thigh-slapping actress playing Prince Charming or the like?

[douglas9401]

I have noticed, by the way, that the great hoohah of a few years ago re the health of the nation has been quietly dropped to the detriment of the vast majority.

Yes, not a mention of trans fats these days.

I blame Sam Smith.

[Deskdiary]

"Also - the 70% figure is nonsense.

Literally just been made up - and believed!!!!"

Just as well I said "apparently" then!

[drmorgans]

Cracking film on Talking Pictures TV yesterday, Come Spy With Me, based on a popular 60s West End show. Danny La Rue (in drag) playing an MI5 clerk who's recruited as a spy.