My sister and I are definitely GC, as are our close colleagues (we're both NHS, different health trusts, she's admin and I'm clinical)
Our husbands are on board, and I've even managed to make my "right-on" twentysomething son look more closely at the implications of self I.D. and of the risks posed to us by *some* men who may identify as women.
I've just driven my 86 year old mum back home after Sunday lunch with us. We were talking in the car about how so many young women now want to change their gender (not sex, we both agree that you can't do that, no matter how many bits you chop off). My mum told me that she'd never admitted this to anyone since she has been an adult, but that when she was around 11-12 years old, she wanted to be a boy so badly, that she thought there was something wrong with her. It wasn't until one of her friends mentioned that she would much rather be a boy, that she realised she wasn't alone. When I asked her why she and her friends thought this way, she replied "Why wouldn't we want to be boys? Men were waited on hand and foot, they didn't have to have babies* or look after the kids. They didn't do the washing and ironing, the cooking or cleaning. Being a boy looked like fun, my brother had a motorbike!"
*The horrors of childbirth in the pre and post-war years, was real to my mum and her peers. One of her friends was brought up by her aunt and uncle after her mother died in childbirth. My mum's aunt died from a ruptured bladder when her baby was just under a year old. And female contraception was non-existent, the fear of unwanted pregnancy was all-consuming, especially for unmarried women.
My mum says that this is all just a "stupid fad" with young girls wanting to be "different", and old men being how old men have always been, a load of bloody perverts. (Her exact words!)
She's heard about the M&S boycott and completely agrees with it, as she says, women don't want men in their changing rooms, not in M&S, nor anywhere else. And she vehemently disagrees with men in women's sports. They're just "cheats", who need (quote) "a kick up the backside".
Our husbands are on board, and I've even managed to make my "right-on" twentysomething son look more closely at the implications of self I.D. and of the risks posed to us by *some* men who may identify as women.
I've just driven my 86 year old mum back home after Sunday lunch with us. We were talking in the car about how so many young women now want to change their gender (not sex, we both agree that you can't do that, no matter how many bits you chop off). My mum told me that she'd never admitted this to anyone since she has been an adult, but that when she was around 11-12 years old, she wanted to be a boy so badly, that she thought there was something wrong with her. It wasn't until one of her friends mentioned that she would much rather be a boy, that she realised she wasn't alone. When I asked her why she and her friends thought this way, she replied "Why wouldn't we want to be boys? Men were waited on hand and foot, they didn't have to have babies* or look after the kids. They didn't do the washing and ironing, the cooking or cleaning. Being a boy looked like fun, my brother had a motorbike!"
*The horrors of childbirth in the pre and post-war years, was real to my mum and her peers. One of her friends was brought up by her aunt and uncle after her mother died in childbirth. My mum's aunt died from a ruptured bladder when her baby was just under a year old. And female contraception was non-existent, the fear of unwanted pregnancy was all-consuming, especially for unmarried women.
My mum says that this is all just a "stupid fad" with young girls wanting to be "different", and old men being how old men have always been, a load of bloody perverts. (Her exact words!)
She's heard about the M&S boycott and completely agrees with it, as she says, women don't want men in their changing rooms, not in M&S, nor anywhere else. And she vehemently disagrees with men in women's sports. They're just "cheats", who need (quote) "a kick up the backside".
