A BBC film called 'Things Not to Say to a Non-Binary Person' features some young people talking about how 'restrictive' the idea of being male and female is - and simplistic. Simplistic? I've been trying to figure out my wife for the past twenty-two years!
As one of them says, "I mean, what is a man and what is a woman?" The overwhelming feeling from watching the young people in the film, and others who make the same claims, is that what they are actually saying is "Look at me!"
Official advice to schools in the U.K. is that the parents of a child should not be told if their child wishes to change gender. A document called 'Supporting Transgender Young People' suggests that pupils should be able to compete in sports (and use bathrooms) in the gender that they feel comfortable with and that parents should not be informed if their child wants to share rooms with members of the opposite sex on school trips. And this is happening at schools which have to get parental permission to issue their child with an aspirin during the school day!
I am reading Douglas Murray's "The Madness of Crowds" and the hair on the back of my neck is standing up. We are doomed, doomed, doomed!
