Just one more thought on the subject: If Russia, or anyone else with less tolerant attitudes than we are supposed to have in this country, decides to come knocking at our borders, who would rush to defend our country. Not the ponces who parade in pink once a year, that's for sure.
Do these people have any other purpose in life, other than to denounce the rest of the population as bigots? Most (all) of the women with adams apples and a five o'clock shadow I see on the box, are unable to work because they would be ridiculed if they left the house. We pay for their 'gender reassignment' and then keep them in food and accommodation for the rest of their life.
I grew up in a certain era thinking a certain way. I won't be told to change my ways, because I too have a right to think any way I want to. A small group of people telling the rest of us how to think? That has consequences, as history proves.
Oh dear Steve, generalising again!
So the strong never fight to defend the weak? Only those that conform to a certain standard should be protected? So those with any impediment, or of the wrong appearance, colour, beliefs, coming from a certain city, etc, etc..............................??
Heaven help us all then if another Hitler came about, and within Great Britain. Eventually such a society would come for you, and me; why? Because we speak up and protest as required in a currently, relatively, free society!! Just watch what happens with those protesting in Hong Kong and having the gaul to challenge the Chinese leadership!
On the second point I have met post op transgendered individuals who work, AND they paid themselves for the big operation as it guaranteed they would not have to wait years to finally be as complete as they would ever be if reliant on the NHS.
Feel some sympathy for them who have always gone through a hell that you or I can only imagine. "Being ridiculed" for them becomes a choice of "putting up" with the ignorance, cruelty and plain nastiness of people and making the best of their lot, or just committing suicide. It is a choice as simple as that! At least some of those, thank God, come out the other side of their "challenge of life" and do the best in their lives, many becoming people who achieve in professional roles.
Painting a negative picture of them achieves nothing but pain for them, and makes the one doing it appear very ignorant, which I know you are not Steve!!