Instead of importing the rotten British cultural practice of forcing everyone into a state of shouting about trans people all the time we could just... Not do that
Aside from the obvious ill of making life grimmer and nastier for trans people it's a massive avoidable waste of everyone's time
I have personal reasons for wanting this kept out of the country as well which related to transphobia being partially rooted in antisemitism
Those Nazi book burnings you've seen pictures of were the destruction of early research into sex and gender done by Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute, which like much else they folded into antisemitic conspiracies https://gcn.ie/queer-people-existed-stonewall-history-magnus-hirschfeld-institute-sexual-science/
Queer people existed before Stonewall: the history of Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute for...

The link between Hirschfeld and a plaque in Ireland keeps his memory alive and reminds us today to rediscover and reclaim our own LGBT+ history.

https://gcn.ie/queer-people-existed-stonewall-history-magnus-hirschfeld-institute-sexual-science/
Today's antisemitic far-right still hold these same beliefs about the existence of queer people being a Jewish plot to 'degenrate' the white race, and their messaging gets filtered out to the mainstream via George Soros rhetoric
There's a really good, detailed article on this history in Verso, from which I've cut out some key passages

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4188-the-eradication-of-talmudic-abstractions-anti-semitism-transmisogyny-and-the-national-socialist-project
There's a really good, detailed article on this history in Verso, from which I've cut out some key passages https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4188-the-eradication-of-talmudic-abstractions-anti-semitism-transmisogyny-and-the-national-socialist-project
There's a really good, detailed article on this history in Verso, from which I've cut out some key passages https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4188-the-eradication-of-talmudic-abstractions-anti-semitism-transmisogyny-and-the-national-socialist-project
There's a really good, detailed article on this history in Verso, from which I've cut out some key passages https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4188-the-eradication-of-talmudic-abstractions-anti-semitism-transmisogyny-and-the-national-socialist-project
There's a really good, detailed article on this history in Verso, from which I've cut out some key passages https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4188-the-eradication-of-talmudic-abstractions-anti-semitism-transmisogyny-and-the-national-socialist-project
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