indyvidual,

Unfortunately not everyone is as understanding as yourself.
Not everyone believes in the "Live and let live," philosophy.
It becomes a huge problem when people are bullied
at school, work, and in our society in general for being
"different." It then becomes a problem for us all but
particularly for the people who are "different" and their
families and friends.

The Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is determined to make
schools and work places "safe," for all. And that is a
worthwhile endeavour for a State Premier.

As Courteney Act stated:

" We need straight allies to accept queer people!"

Indyvidual

I agree with you. The people who pretend to understand - the liars I mentioned - are doing so because it suits their political agendas: wreck the joint; divide society; bully everyone they don't like; take our minds off the real issues we should be facing instead of trendy Woke rubbish.

I don't care if these poor deluded fools want to call themselves something they clearly are not - pretending that they are not one of the only two sexes available at birth. Free country. They can talk and think any shite that they want to; just don't expect any sane person to take notice - because that's all a lot of them want: to be noticed.

ttbn, once again your compassion and empathy towards your fellow beings astounds me.

If you really believe that a person struggling to understand who they really are, not who they have been told they are, and how they fit into the world around them is really doing so because "... it suits their political agendas..." that they want to "... wreck the joint; divide society; bully everyone they don't like..." simply to "... take our minds off the real issues..." there is no hope.

In reality you are projecting your own wilful blindness, your bias and your agenda onto anyone who doesn't toe your version of what the line should be. It's really pathetic.

Once upon a time Right-wing and conservative politics
in Australia used to be all about individualism.
They considered themselves s "broad church."

So what's happened? Judging from a few comments here
apparently to some people it is wrong for individuals
to identify with the gender that they feel they are.
It seems that - MALE or FEMALE - tick one box only is
what's allowed.

I'm trying to understand why?

Is it a form of religious extremism?

What other reason can there be? To sink to a new low
and spread hate against a group of people who are not
hurting anybody, spreading vilification and misinformation
and resenting people the freedom to exist to be themselves
however they choose to define themselves.

I'm surprised that far more unrelated words like "communists"
have not been thrown in for good measure to gaslight their
hatred.

There are three broad categories of transgenders...

1. A vanishingly small number of people are actually born with screwed up genes which means they are physically both male and female to varying degrees eg mostly male with some female attributes, mostly female with some male attributes and everything in-between. This is probably devastating for said folk and society should throw all the resources at its disposal at these people to give a semblance of whatever normal life they want. Again the numbers of these people is a small fraction of 1% of the population.

2. People who have all the attributes of one sex or t'other but believe themselves to be other than what their biology says ie people with a penis who think they should be female, or people with a uterus who feel male. While still a fraction of 1% of the population the people in this category are somewhat larger in number than category 1. These people are suffering a mental illness in that their brain is telling them something different to reality. That's not to say they are deranged, just delusional. This group need to be firstly treated for their illness but if it cannot be resolved then they ought to be allowed to exist as the gender they chose, within limits.

/cont