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Moodieonroody's avatar

Many of us have stories of being 'gender non-conforming' as a child .... including myself.

Luckily my parents found it funny when I was given both sparkly high heels and a cheap version of 'action man' when I won a fancy dress contest dressed as a male hero age 10-ish because they (the judges) couldnt work out if I was a boy or a girl. And my parents weren't even 'progressive' in any other way! Certainly not politically.

My parents and I never questioned that this was ok - that a girl could emulate a male hero or a female hero. That a boy could be as affectionate as a girl etc. That I could play football with my brothers' friends and that didn't mean anything regarding my future sexuality or 'gender identity'. We all knew I was a girl.

This was pre-Stonewall. Nowadays I dread to think what could have happened. Stonewall is such a regressive dangerous organisation and no-one voted for em to start influencing children. There is no evidence for their 'gender ideological' [anti-logical?] claims and no authority to do this - yet here we are.

Thanks for this Dennis - I think we need a campaign to our MP's in the name of free speech and representative democracy - whichever party, this harmful 'intellectual' nonsense has no basis on what we know about child development and no right to power AT ALL.

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Danny Nicol's avatar

Surely this goes beyond the charitable aims of Stonewall as lodged with the Commission. How about we bombard the Charity Commission with complaints? Please can we have a post to organise us on this.

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