Beyond Devastated

Former Member

Found out today the bill allowing teachers to misgender/deadname students if they wish and the mandatory outing of closeted trans kids, not allowing trans kids to go into the right toilets etc, has been passed and it's so upsetting. Fortunately, I am in university now and am 21, but my heart breaks for all of the trans kids that are going to be affected by this. I'm just so full of rage and upset, I want to do something about it but I feel so useless.

I hope you all, especially trans peeps right now, are taking care of yourselves during this time.

- E

AnonymousToe

this is horrifying, what is happening to the country?!

lunarcat522

@IdiosyncraticTrash I completely agree it's absolutely devastating, I sympathise with everyone that will struggle as a result of this. I hope everyone does some self care as this is really difficult news to come to terms with.

independent_

Sometimes I think our country is going backwards. I wonder if it applies to Scotland where I live. I hope not.

JustV

Caught this on the radio yesterday. So horrific.

It gives me some hope that the current school generation and younger is getting more and more understanding and accepting of trans people, and they're also more likely than anyone in previous generations to know a trans person, so maybe the tide is still moving in the right direction.

lunarcat522

@independent_ I also live in Scotland. I don't think it applies here as education is a devolved power, but I'm not saying this for certain since the UK government overrode one of the Scottish Government bills that passed recently, think it was the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.

Amy22

I've seen this recently and I think this is something that might be happening in Wales too (I'm Welsh) and I think it's horrific that the government are allowing teachers to deadname students. I can't imagine something more horrific for the trans community at the moment. Like don't people understand that deadnaming/misgendering can be super harmful to folk and cause so much upset for them. I just feel like Britain needs to be more open minded with the lgbtqia+ community because it's getting out of hand now and like why can't people just accept the trans community for who they are . Im also upset about this too as well.

Former Member

wtaf is wrong with this country they're so fucking selfish

BlueberryMuffin

yeah its really upsetting, when i thought the laws and stuff were making progress now its taking a huge step backwards

Former Member

i dont know as much about everywhere else, but here in the UK, transgender people are the current political target . the government has made a huge non-issue of it . it isnt socially acceptable to make fake news stories on gay people being pedophiles anymore, so weve been given the next best thing . my future child will have to deal with its classmates using litter trays because they are cat-gender ! transgender teachers have groomed our children ! think of the children sniff sniff.. hic....
people who dont know what a real problem is fall for Evil People of The Month every single time, and i feel thats why trans progression is getting so much push-back . if they realise what the real problems are, there will be change and i find our current government doesnt take kindly to that . many many things that just scream bigoted fear-mongering
remember: dont fall for it in the future when they start telling us that neopronouns make children's organs explode

Anonymous55

@slugchannel
The stuff people say about neopronouns actually suprised me in the beginning, because the first way I learnt about the lgbt+ community was by reading a book where one of the characters was non-binary and used neopronouns to identify. This was a published, and well written book, called Adam-2 by Alastair Chisholm, with a lot of hidden depths, subtle references to what we go through as people, not just those in this community, and many deep dives into the psychology of a dying world and it's people. So hearing how at least half the community feels about neopronouns...I don't really disagree, or agree. Yeah, some of them are de-humanizing and degredating, but some are genuinely harmless and are just slightly newer to everyone so are greeted with hostility and suspicion because the community and what we stand for have been abused and ridiculed for so long.

And to be honest the kind of stuff people say about neopronouns in the community makes me feel a bit ill. Because while yeah, being 'cat-gender' or 'meow-gender' sounds ridiculous, I used to say I was a cat whenever someone called me by my pronouns. Granted, that could've been the undiagnosed ADHD/ASD, but put it into context with what the cat in Corraline said, and you start to wonder whether some of the people who use these terms are actually just unaware of what the term specifies in a dictionary, or online. Maybe some people resonate with not needing a set of pronouns, and instead want to focus on actually existing. But they don't realise that the terms are de-humanising to the lgbtq+ community. Maybe they just need to be re-defined by people who aren't homophobic haters, and who actually feel like they should be able to exist the way the cat in Corraline said cats do? Because when I first saw the term 'cat-gender' that was what sprang to mind.

However I am new to neopronouns and their symbolism, so if anyone can explain to my naive self what I'm missing and maybe help me out with the history of neopronouns, that would be much appreciated. I'm really, really sorry if I have offended anyone, and I swear I'm just genuinely curious