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Originally Posted by Beso

What social rights are these then that a straight white male has over a gay male or women or anyone trans, cause all i'm seeing is people not trans or gay being cancelled at things like the Edinburgh fringe, or perhaps for something said on tv or radio..

From just a gay perspective:

• Straight couples aren't scared of holding hands in public for fear of being attacked.
• There is no conversion therapy for stopping straight people being straight.
• Heterosexual couples/people can be represented in media without in being called "woke"
• Heterosexual people can be hired without it being looked at as a diversity hire.
• Heterosexual sex education and safety is taught widely without issue.
• Heterosexual people aren't shunned from family for being straight.

You're also missing a really crucial point - gay people only have equal laws and certain protections because of talking about rights.

You have to remember that a lot of this progress is actually relatively recent. We've only been allowed to join the army since 2000. Marriage for gay people in UK has only been legal for just over a decade and in N. Ireland for half that time. Sexually active gay people could only start donating blood in 2020 because of discriminatory rules for crying out loud.

Progress has happened, but progress can also be temporary and reversed, and therefore until the point we are confident it is neither, people will continue to rally it.

Think of it this way... you work full time in a factory and in the past due to lack of safety regulations, that factory has a history of burning down, killing some of your colleagues. New owners come on board and the subject of safety measures come up and you make sure they know that the new safety measures have prevent fires and prevented deaths. This happens every four years and the subject of the safety measures is an ongoing topic throughout and so you keep on talking about it because it seems it's always up for discussion. Particularly because the owners are friends with other factory's owners elsewhere who have actually reduced safety measures and they're advocating for them to do the same otherwise they might put your prices up.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2733806.html

Gay, trans, women are all further protected by hate speech laws..can you honestly say a straight white male is afforded the same protection from these laws?

Hate crime laws protect against sexuality and gender.