My colleague inadvertently helped me convert another colleagues to a critic of gender ideology yesterday
I can’t remember how it came about but the conversation was about how boys as young as 4 are “transitioning” and wear dresses and times have changed parents are being more open minded etc etc

I didn’t want to go full TERF at work, so I just made a comment along the lines of finding it a little bit regressive that if you dress up you must be a girl.
Colleague A then said “oh it’s a lot more serious than that when they get older, they have to live as a woman for two years before they transition properly into a woman” so I said, “what does that mean? Living as a woman” and she said “there’s not a real definition but I suppose they grow their hair, wear padded bras etc”



and I honestly could see my the penny drop with Colleague B. So I said “but in my eyes, if I cut my hair off and had a mastectomy I wouldn’t become a man” and Colleague B said “I’ve never thought of it like that, you’re right it’s all just based around stereotypes when you think about it isn’t it”
One at a time

I was pretty pleased tbh once you start to explain it it becomes so obvious…