How Would You Like To Identify?

[Deskdiary]

Are these people mad?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7693927/Anyone-allowed-identify-black-according-Left-wing-university-leaders.html

"Our rules commit us to ending all forms of discrimination, bigotry and stereotyping. UCU has a long history of enabling members to self-identify whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT+ or women."

Still, good to know they will respect my right to identify as an eskimo pre-op about to become a male legless stuttering little girl.

[andres]

I can think of quite a few people who self- identify as 'disabled' in order to draw benefits!

[naomi24]

Mozz,//So how did these concerns change from fears about privacy issues to the mocking and pisstaking we see on every trans post? //

That you will have to raise with the perpetrators.

//We don't see any considered arguments, //

Well, they're there. Perhaps you're over-looking them.

[Zacs-Master]

I can see no justification of why anyone should be concerned about this on this thread. Absolutely none.

[Mozz71]

//That you will have to raise with the perpetrators//

I just did. You haven't answered yet.

//Perhaps you're over-looking them?//

Perhaps. Or maybe they're be used as an excuse to persecute the trans community?

[sanmac]

Although I've never seen it, I understand that the TV programme "The Walking Dead" is very popular. I imagine that quite soon they'll be producing a sequel called "The Walking Weirdos".

[Boto]

I’d like to identify as a frog. Does that make me one?

[Canary42]

/// We don't see any considered arguments, just the usual bullying of anyone different. ///

Spot on Mozz, the usual stream of unjustified abuse in order to smokescreen the absence of any serious attempt to debate an issue sensibly.

[dannyk13]

Canary, do you really expect a serious debate about something that is patently ludicrous?

[Mozz71]

//I’d like to identify as a frog. Does that make me one?//

Try some flies and see.

[Mozz71]

//Canary, do you really expect a serious debate about something that is patently ludicrous?//

We debate the ludicrous all the time.

*cough*Brexit*cough*

[naomi24]

Mozz, ///That you will have to raise with the perpetrators//

I just did. You haven't answered yet. ///

Oh I see ... you mean me. You should have said. What have I said that's caused you to take offence on behalf of other people - most of whom I presume you don't know?

[Zacs-Master]

Well, you’ve called such actions “potty” and a “nonsensical pretence”. You’ve still to let us know why you’re so bothered by such instances.

[LadyCG]

I would like to identify as a 6ft 24-year-old female supermodel, heiress of North, Central and South America, multi-billionairess who is exempt from the law of all lands.

[LadyCG]

I'll review my identity next Wednesday.

[naomi24]

Zacs, //Well, you’ve called such actions “potty” and a “nonsensical pretence”. //

I have indeed. Accepting that black people may identify as white and vice versa is potty - and it is nonsensical pretence - as is men masquerading as women and insisting on being allowed to use female facilities. I'd still like to know why if it shouldn't matter to a woman it's okay that it matters to them. No answer to that one yet.

[Zacs-Master]

Neither of those scenarios bother me. I just write them off as things which don’t affect me and are said by people who I have no common ground with.

[naomi24]

//people who I have no common ground with. //

Not even toilets .....

[Zacs-Master]

Ha. I’m not sure we move in the same circles. I’ve been in many a nightclub / pub where the occupants were mixed gender. Heck, I’ve even been to a campsite in Cap d’agde with mixed showers. I can’t ever recall anyone announcing what they identified as.

[naomi24]

//I can’t ever recall anyone announcing what they identified as. //

Them woz the days. ;o)

[SparklyKid]

In mixed showers it would clear who were men and who were women.