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Keir Starmer says he doesn’t want schools teaching young people about transgender identities ...

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/25/keir-starmer-trans-education-general-election-2024/
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u/notleave_eu 5d ago

Trans and tolerance for all generally needs to be addressed as a whole, though what I don’t understand currently is why something that affects around 0.5% of the population taking over such a high percentage of the news cycles.

This doesn’t affect 99.5% of the population of England and Wales but it’s constant news. There are more people who are homeless, or children living in poverty than there are trans people. A call every 30 seconds is made to the police regarding domestic violence which affects 1 in 5 of everyone (male or female) during our lifetime.

I’m not saying ignore it, or not address it, I just that I don’t understand why the other issues are pushed aside for this.

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u/External-Piccolo-626 5d ago

Because there’s a massive agenda to push this issue that’s why. From who or where we don’t know yet, but it’s very worrying.

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u/Darq_At 5d ago

We do know. Conservatives and evangelical Christians.

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u/CharlesComm 4d ago

Not just evangelical christians. Turns out the catholic church has been funding various anti-trans groups too.

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u/no-se-habla-de-bruno 5d ago

Really? You think they're the ones pushing it? Every TV show now has a trans or non binary person wedged in there but you think Christians are pushing it? You don't believe that 

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u/Darq_At 5d ago

Every TV show now has a trans or non binary person wedged in there but you think Christians are pushing it?

What reality, exactly, do you live in? Because it isn't the one the rest of us inhabit.

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u/no-se-habla-de-bruno 5d ago

Yeah I have to wonder what's going on in your world. It's in almost all new media.

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u/Darq_At 4d ago

Uh, if you say so, I guess.

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u/External-Piccolo-626 5d ago

Conservatives and Christians are pushing trans on children?

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u/Darq_At 5d ago

Nobody is "pushing trans on children".

Conservatives and evangelicals are pushing the idea that there is a nefarious plot to "[push] trans on children". That is why trans people suddenly occupy so much news coverage, because conservatives have decided that trans people are the thing they are using to rile up their voter base.

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u/jimthewanderer Sussex 5d ago

Well no, no one is doing that.

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u/smeeti 5d ago

I think this issue is pushed so that people don’t focus on poverty and the left get their knickers in a twist over pronouns rather than focusing on massive inequality.

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u/ClingerOn 5d ago

Isn’t it the right who are always kicking up a fuss about pronouns?

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u/smeeti 5d ago

Everyone is getting their knickers in a twist over pronouns, toilets, sports.

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u/Crochetqueenextra 5d ago

Big Pharma?

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u/Darq_At 5d ago

No. HRT is inexpensive, and transgender people are far too small a market. Therapy is FAR more expensive than HRT. If there is a monetary interest, it is to deny trans people hormones and force them into more expensive therapy that does not resolve the issue.