It was an impressive rally and I was impressed by how it wasn't just a rally of trans people. There was a lot of support by ordinary people.
That didn't go unnoticed by the press. There've been stories since about polls showing that such hardline opposition to trans rights as does exist is from the boomer generation and older millennials, while younger millennials and Gen Z etc are more likely to be supportive. The polls also confirm the silent majority aren't bothered. If those attitudes persist, then opposition to trans will literally age out and the mix of people at the rally gave a lot of hope for that outcome.
For people living outside the UK, it may not be clear this car crash started with an attempt by the Scottish parliament to make the process of applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate less onerous. That spiralled into a social media war which hijacked the debate to successfully cast trans people as a group of men leveraging a protected characteristic purely to infiltrate into women's toilets and lesbian clubs for evil ends.
Completely MIA from the stories in the tabloids and on social (why is everything on social so antagonistic?) was anything about trans men or non-binary people. They were there on the march, but this whole debate has treated them as if they do not exist to poison the well with a 'closet abusers' branding spiced with conspiracy theorist overtones.
Yet those two other groups will soon comprise two thirds of all trans folk!
My overwhelming feeling is this entire debate would benefit enormously from a dose of compassion on both sides!
