...but now they've seen how they want to take a mile, they've changed their minds.
Public support for transgender people's ability to change the sex on their birth certificates has drastically fallen in recent years, a major survey reveals. Just 24 per cent of people now agree that trans people should be allowed to change their sex 'if they want' – compared to support levels of 58 per cent in 2016. The results have emerged as part of the British Social Attitudes report, carried out annually by the National Centre for Social Research.
Predictably, the trans activists are pointing at 'the media' as the culprit, because they've apparently been convincing the easygoing British public that there's a danger from trans people. Which is somehow not true.
We are asked to assume that it's not the case that demanded medical overreach and stifling of mainstream opinion have harderned attitudes, that people would otherwise be totally fine with the use of a once-respected police force as a silencing agent for our free speech, even to the point of wasting time on non-crime.
Researchers also looked at public opinion on trans rights – and came to similar conclusions. Asked whether they thought trans rights had gone too far, 47 per cent of the public thought they had.
I worry about the other forty-three percent, frankly!
The researchers said: 'It could be argued that this apparent shift in attitudes may be restricted to the specific issue of gender self-identification.
'Alternatively, perhaps the intensity of debate [has] influenced attitudes towards people who are transgender more broadly, with the result that views towards society's protection of their rights may have shifted in a more illiberal direction.'
It's not society's protection of their rights that concerns people, it's their demands that everyone else's rights should be trampled on to give them what they can never have.
