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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/lem0nhe4d 5d ago

I mean is it up for debate? Their isn't a single study showing evidence being trans is a social contagion. Surely the group claiming evidence bases must be extremely high before any change is made will want evidence first? /S

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u/cypherspaceagain 5d ago

You can have an independent thought, which might seem completely logical and seems to satisfy critical thinking skills, yet reality disproves it when actually studied, because there was something you hadn't thought of. Independent thoughts are subject to biases and lack of information. Studies and experiments are our way of verifying the truth of your independent thoughts. You can have them, and they might be right, but to pretend that logic on its own is enough for policy decisions is fucking stupid.

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u/Vasquerade 5d ago

Because that's not what a social contagion is

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u/Mav_Learns_CS 5d ago

Deducation is an unfortunate misspelling when criticising someone’s thought process.

I mean I am not for one second surprised that there is an increase in openly trans people now there is more open discussion and acceptance.

Turns out when you aren’t completely ridiculed or even assaulted for simply being who you are inside you’ll have more people express who they are

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u/lem0nhe4d 5d ago

Trans kids now days have positive depictions of trans people that show they can be trans and live a happy life.

When I was kid if you saw a trans character it was normally a character to be ridiculed.

Hell the first trans character I saw was in ace Ventura where everyone vomits when they find out she is trans.

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u/The_Flurr 5d ago

Funny how there are more left handed kids these days now that they don't get caned for it.