UPDATE  FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 2018

The GRA Consultation has now closed.

As you can see we are now 14 members of this informal gathering hoping to seek a way towards mutual understanding.

There are other transsexuals supporting us and we are grateful for their encouragement.

We have been overwhelmed by your response on here and elsewhere. Thank you. There are a few replies from people who disagree with us but we respect your right to have a different opinion. We have not deleted these posts from comments. That is not how we intend to engage.

Rather we seek to find a way to move this debate forward from the polarised attitudes that dominate social media. Disagreement is fine so long as we all respect one another's right to an opposing view and try to work together. If replies are civil then they can be critical.

Words are too often used as weapons in a war of ideologies. This pushes discussion further apart. We need open discussion in search of a way forward that might be acceptable to all.

Hopefully, government will now be doing this and we would ask that the media, also, follow a more positive stance when seeking answers.

It is easy to select examples of awful events or activities that prove your own beliefs. We do not minimise them. If they call for condemnation on either side we will do so without reservation.

We have listened to your ideas and thank you for suggestions.

Under consideration is finding a platform where discussion can be friendly and words that demean either side are excluded. Blogger is not designed for this but we will continue to post messages here and hope you, too, will continue to offer your thoughts.

Hopefully we will find a place and time where we can have a good debate over a couple of hours, perhaps, as a trial run. Then, if that is successful, we can take it from there.

You deserve to have your say free of the political ideology that  has so far dominated all sides of this debate.  That is why we are here. And we respect your help, advice and support in trying to achieve this aspiration.

Watch out for our next update with further details of the next step that we hopefully take together.



A STATEMENT TO THE MEDIA

It is not the policy of this blog to approach the media. However, we welcome anyone making reference, or quoting from, its content if they so choose.

Nonetheless we were asked to give a comment as the GRA consultation period ended. It was not used, but we thought you might like to see what we wanted to say. 

COMMENT:-

Really this is all about respect.

Transsexual women have always respected women, because, whilst we do not claim to literally be one, we live as one through mutual respect and a bond of trust between us and them over many years.

The transgender movement seems to have lost that concept. It is now about acquiescence and rights not mutual understanding.

No wonder women - and society in general - are starting to disrespect trans people.

You reap what you sow.

We just wish they would wake up to how this is not all about us. But about all people. All of us live in a community and you do not become part of that community by demanding entry and telling them that their rules are wrong.

Transsexuals understand that.

Transgender people need to or they will find themselves facing a less bright future than they deserve.