I'm not sure about transgender -
but here in Melbourne we have a bus company
called, "Transdev!"

Should we be careful when we get on the bus,
or should we just go for the ride?

In Brisbane we have 'Translink'; but it's not a dating agency for transsexuals.

Shockadelic, "What you *do* with your anatomy is your choice, but the scientific realities remain the same, so should be taught the same to all students"

If I might borrow your comment, adding that children cannot consent to what poor or slanted advice they might be given, nor to the treatments they are given.

Lawyers stand to make a fortune in the future from the claims. Irreversible sex changes later regretted, how many $millions for that?

In my son's school, The New Age Presbyterian Ladies College which was always very accepting, of the 1500 boys not one was transgender. So said the Head Master Miss Natalie Dinkum, formally Mr Nigel Dinkum, that is, until he took to wearing a dress.

Political correct has the looney coming out of the woodwork.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/862304/LGBT-gay-lesbian-bisexual-people-increase-UK-London-Ireland-Wales-Scotland

More than a million people in the UK now identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual
MORE than a million people in the UK are gay, lesbian or bisexual and they are more likely to be men than women, according to official figures.

The huge number recorded by the Office for National Statistics last year represents 2 per cent of the population and is a rise on the 930,000 who identified as homosexual or bisexual in 2015.

Analysis of the data revealed that 16 to 24-year-olds were the age group most likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual last year with about one in every 25 or 4.1 per cent.

The figure is up from 3.3 per cent in 2015.

This compares to just 0.7 per cent of those aged 65 -plus and highlights changing social mores combined with younger people being more likely to explore their sexuality.

Across the UK, last year saw a “statistically significant increase” in people identifying as LGB, with around 1.1m people or two per cent saying they were LGB, compared with 1.7 per cent in 2015.

Scotland had the highest proportion in the UK last year, with 2.2 per cent, while England followed with 1.9 per cent.

Northern Ireland and Wales both reported an LBG population of 1.7 per cent. London remained the region with the highest proportion of gay and bisexual people at 2.7 per cent, also a rise on the previous year’s 2.6 per cent.

The data also shows 2.3 per cent of men said they were gay or bisexual compared to 1.6 per cent of women who identified as lesbian or bisexual.

Some 0.5 per cent of the population identified as “other”, meaning they did not consider themselves to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or straight.

//The huge number recorded by the Office for National Statistics...//

Huge number? It's approx. 1.68% of the population by my calculation, leaving 98.32% that are straight.

Whoever wrote that article has some funny ideas about statistics.