I put some of that down to this. I knew a man who's gay, and after his partner's mother died, his partner's father went up to him and said, "I was only pretending for your mother. I don't want to see you again." He later returned to the UK and took up with his old high school girlfriend. And if you analyze the video to Smalltown Boy, Jimmy Sommerville's character is brought home by the police after a homophobic attack and his father is the angry one. On the day he leaves home, his mother gives him a hug, while his father gives him some money and refuses to even shake his hand.

The media and political focus on transgender folk is twofold. I was reading an article the other day that said that what we are seeing is the oppressed becoming the oppressors, a sentiment with which I disagree in some ways. Some on the Right-wing will say, "Oh, we can't do this anymore," without understanding that the right that the oppressors have fought for is not necessarily an attack on free speech. For example, an LGBTIQA Person should have the right to live in their home without fear of having homophobic graffiti vandalism. An LGBTIQA person should have the right to walk down the street without being violently assaulted or verbally abused. A conservative will not, in a democracy, have the secret police break down their door at midnight and have them hauled off to a re-education camp! But too much freedom of speech and too much freedom of action turns a society into anarchy.

When it comes to women's sports, while I can understand some concerns, what I call the Beethoven Argument should be applied fairly, but let's not forget that there are more transwomen who do NOT want to play sport than do. I am in favour of transwomen being able to attend all-female gymnasiums, and I say to macho men who advocate violence such as, saying if a transwoman follows their wife into the bathroom or into a women's only space that they will assault them, that needs to be seriously tempered. If a predator follows your wife or partner into a women's only space and she shrieks you may use reasonable force to defend her if the predator has her physically restrained, however, if a transwoman enters a women's space after your wife, leave the transwoman alone! Similarly, if your wife makes friends with a transwoman, treat the transwoman with respect and show your wife some respect, too.