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J.M.Venning's avatar

Let me give you a literal instance from a Hagley teachers' meeting with an imam ( no I will not capitalise the word); who viciously verbalised what should happrn to an unveiled/ inadequately veiled woman.

A fellow tutor, who was also a University lecturer ...was in our group. She is muslim (again I will not capitalise).

She is Pakistani. A single mother. She came to NZ for safety for her dusabled daughter. Her daughter would not have survived in Pakistan.

Disabled children, especially if girls, do not.

This muslim man sneered at my colleague re her loosely draped pale blue silk scarf.

" Back home in Pakistan you would be stoned to death for your disrespect."

She and I got up and walked out.

Other teachers present neither said nor did anything. 20 years ago.

Think how complicit in hurting women, femicide inciting, our sociery and our 'education 'institutions have always been.

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Dave's avatar

To whom you are attracted sexually is purely subjective and therefore cannot reasonably be contested by an outside observer.

Where you decide to live your life on a spectrum of superficial, stereotypical male to female attributes (and we all do) is also purely subjective and similarly cannot be questioned.

However, your biological sex reflects an objective reality which cannot be changed by your subjective personal view and futile attempts to do so can result in serious health impacts to you as well as harms to members of the sex you are impersonating (primarily women).

Others who are grounded in objective reality should never be forced to accept your subjective version of your actual biological sex.

Finally, it's past time for the LGB community to separate themselves from the trans activists who are trying to take away the rights of women to fairness in sports and to privacy and safety in their restrooms, locker rooms and prisons. They also advocate for the chemical and surgical mutilation of children many of whom would grow up gay.

Their actions are evil and the

understandable negative reaction to the harm they are causing is spilling over to innocent people who are just going about their business, marrying and leading their lives.

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