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Originally Posted by Soldier Boy
It has (in part) tanked a lot of the SNP's support in Scotland. It's not even about being supportive of trans people or otherwise... it's the refusal to have a good faith debate/conversation on the topic that's doing the damage. When it comes up it's the same old "Stonewall inspired" techniques at play which is essentially the idea that you just refuse the debate (that the debate in itself is -phobic) and forge ahead. It's not a stance that sits well with people these days.
Basically people just want their concerns to be taken seriously and, when changes are made to things like policy, to be reassured that the work has actually been done instead of this turgid attitude of "it's offensive for you to say work would need to be done!".
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Yep absolutely and this is an issue in Ireland atm too. The government here just lost a referendum suggesting 2 changes to our continuation for the same reasons, poo pooing peoples concerns as conservative or far right. people are sick to death of it. This is a prime example of the attitudes of those in power and their attitudes towards the people of the country below (this is about the proposed new hate speech bill in Ireland
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