Comments by "Barry Ledgister" (@barryledgister4496) on "Pod Save the World" channel.

  1. Women have segregated female-only spaces, they don`t need to explain why, they`re 50% of the population. The issues a tiny minority, trans identifying men,` have are nothing to do with women, and they`ll need to solve those themselves. Women don`t want men in their birth-sex based private spaces. And that`s that. Men have segregated spaces that don`t seem to have the same issue with trans identifying females trying to get in...I wonder why.
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  2. Stonewall UK have been caught giving financial incentives to primary schools to use `gender neutral` language, i.e. no more `hello boys and girls` in assembly. A whistleblower says at meetings the leader would start chants saying `Smash Heteronormativity!`. Stonewall and Mermaids have some deep space extremists with an agenda that they don`t want to involve childrens` parents in.
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  3. The best thing the NHS can do is to end gender affirming care completely. It`s obvious the trans community just want the drugs and surgery, and want it while having a completely different belief system from what the NHS is run on. There will always be conflict if trans believe gender is assigned at birth, and the NHS believes in biological birth-sex. Just end GAC. They`re so confident they`re trans, why do they need therapy? Just go and get the drugs and surgery (privately)...but the public system won`t touch minors medically at all. I think that would work. It`s obvious also that the trans community will not be satisfied whatever you do. If they`re born trans and it`s not an illness, so why do they need the NHS?
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  4.  @ambientjohnny  Nobody can change sex, and those that try to look/act/behave totally unconvincingly. Just a slight problem with the whole `trans` issue.
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  5. This is hilarious. The trans activists themselves have drawn attention to trans healthcare, nobody would be any the wiser if it wasn`t for them. LGB in schools have ensured an influx of `trans` people which have overburdened the service. And now under the spotlight, trans healthcare has doctor shopping, fast-tracking, nonchalant puberty blocker use, mastectomies for the under 16s, with the politicisation making trans people accuse the service providers of transphobia...it`s just a hot mess. That nobody would`ve noticed without trans activists and LGB.
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  6. The `72 genders` thing is just an exaggeration of the fact there is an ideology that believes there`s more than two genders. Nish should know that`s how satire and snark works...exaggerate. It doesn`t deflect from the fact that more than two genders are being taught without any basis in scientific fact or rationality. I`ve seen a hotline offering helping to GNC 13-17 years olds that lists more than two genders, and multiple sexual orientations...none of this is based in observable fact, and sounds, yes, with `graysexual` `abrosexual` and `demigirl`, completely made up. How is that going to help a GNC boy or girl (yes) who is same sex attracted? Those are the only options...same sex or opposite sex attracted. And teaching these ideas in school is ridiculous.
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  7.  @Derf1OO  I was replying to the OP who said, quote, `The reason there is a backlash to trans, particularly transwomen`. Both `trans men` and `trans women` rely on a physical approximation of the opposite sex; some gender (hair length, clothing, make-up) some based on biological sex (body structure, facial hair, secondary sexual characteristics). As you`ve said gender is based on sex. But trans isn`t subverting anything...it`s playing by very traditional rules of gender and sex. Everything else you say, both pro and anti trans people agree on. Except some pro-trans people will argue you can change sex.
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  8. It`s really patronising to say `trans people must be treated with compassion`. Why? Are they mentally disabled, incapable of making their own decisions? If they are, sure, have compassion. But i don`t think they are..so compassion isn`t needed. Just like all other citizens, government set up a system where we can help ourselves and further our lives, without needing compassion or patronising from anybody else.
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  9. Here`s the hyperbole again...`current climate of hatred and ignorance`...where? Are trans businesses being destroyed, attacks in clubs, vicious graffiti on walls? These are the things that routinely happen when a community is targeted. And how can a man be `feminist`? That`s all women are pointing out (many of whom are feminist)...`trans women` (men) are entering their spaces, events and sports...and they need to stop. Nobody thinks you are..`the greatest current threat to biological women and girls`. That`s more hyperbole and emotional blackmail. Just stay in your lane, and out of womens`.
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  10.  @TheVibes101  I am not uninformed. The two issues you mentioned were discussed among other things in the video. The conservative government is not restricting trans healthcare. The Cass Review is reporting on the changes in the protocol...which is more GICs in the regions with more staff, nurses, and doctors...how is that restricting trans healthcare? And even if it were, the NHS, a socialist largely left-wing organisation is making those decisions, not the Conservative Government. Nothing `very right wing` there. And nobody is stopping `teaching about trans people` in schools. The Department of Education is mandating teaching about gender ideology and gender identities as highly contested areas, which they clearly are, as they are not based in physical, biological reality. Again, there is nothing there `very right-wing`. People speak about `trans rights` but never discuss what rights are being denied. I don`t see anything being denied for men pretedning to be women, and women pretending to be men, you have the rights of your birth-sex. i disagree with `trans women` being in womens` sports, spaces and events`. They are not women. They have no rights in womens` lives. Apart from that, live your lives, but come up with something better than `restricting trans healthcare` and `not teaching about trans people in schools` as examples of very right wing government. I see nothing about semantics, or ulterior motives, or uninformed about what I`ve said briefly to the OP, and your whole `anti-trans right wing positions` mention is something you want to believe is the case, but present no evidence for.
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  11.  @aardappelmethoed1151  Hormones for menopausal women are to counteract and deal with the medical impact of...menopause. I claim it is used for cosmetic purposes by trans identifying men because they use it to produce a more `feminine` appearance, softer skin, more lustrous hair, and more `feminine` facial features (less facial hair growth for example). These are all cosmetic effects that disappear if the hormone treatment ends.
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  12.  @TheVibes101  I live in the UK. There is nothing this current government is doing `to.. trans people (that) is `very right wing indeed``. If you disagree, give me an example of what they`re doing.
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  13.  @atomheartother  The hormonal treatment is not for any medical,physical issue. It`s merely for cosmetic purposes when used by an adult trans idenitfying man.
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  14.  @RoonMian  You`ve basically called somebody a name that in itself means nothing to most people (`nationalsocialists`?) and that through images and associations is the foundation for media, fashion and cultural products. And that ideology hasn`t been debunked...it`s still the basis of many nations in the world, and certainly has only gone to ground in its country of origin, where many people still cling to it, and are the most vociferous followers or trans` fascism because it ticks so many homophobic, sexist and anti-logic boxes. A lame insult.
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  15. What is the current government doing to trans people that is very right wing indeed?
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  16. The `trans activists` want no discussion. They`re the closest thing to fascism we have in the UK.
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  17.  @itcouldbelupus2842  It`s a real thing...go to some websites. `Trans girls` love their spinny skirts and cotton briefs and bralettes and describe lvoingly the first `buds` (that`s what they call them) of `breasts`. Some men are undoubtedly aroused by wearing womens clothing...duh...and it`s even more arousing to invade women-only spaces while pretending to be a woman.
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  18.  @montyswift5661  I also see `Abigail` Thorn as a man. As I`m sure do the vast majority of people. Are you going to censure everybody and force them into your belief?
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  19.  @classycolas  The WPATH leaks admit children can`t give `informed consent`. Why, with those standards, is a UK GIC, now closed, being sued in a Class Action of 1000+ law suits and growing, for fast tracking treatment for minors and malpractice? If everything was okay and being adhered to, we wouldn`t be discussing this and wouldn`t have this video.
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  20.  @montyswift5661  Well obviously if some insignifcant man identifies as a woman, it does impact on me if he asks me to lie and refer to him as a woman. If he wants to identify, great...we can all have a good laugh. But if he`s asking us to take part in this nonsense...ain`t gonna happen. It all exists online anyway. There`s no way Oliver Thorn would ask me to address him as a woman irl and expect me to comply.
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  21. The format is to be biased, and give the young audience what they want to hear. Conservative bad, Left-wing good. Usual medialand nonsense designed to make money. Conservative outlets thrive on opposing points of view...the left refuse to engage.
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  22. Change the last three words to `a man`s delusions`...and you`ve nailed it. `Trans` is a man`s rights movement.
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  23. You`re speaking way too much sense to the anti-woman trans movement. They want to be IN those women-only spaces.
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  24. You say: `I've received all the paperwork needed and finally received the HRT treatments I dreamed of. And yet I was still left with that feeling or somehow not being "good enough" not fitting someone's definition or story somewhere.` So what`s the problem? Move on...the healthcare service can`t do anything about your `feelings`. They`ve provided the service, you`re happy with it...the end. Yes, if people are going to provide you with a treatment, they need to establish what`s wrong. As I`ve suggested before, we should cut the health service out of this, and let you go to the plastic surgeons direct to get all the body modificatons and chemical input you wish in order to `change` your body. And, of course, you pay them.
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  25. Who are these `self-proclaimed TERF`s `...prominent in the American second-wave feminist movement`? How can you say the UK NHS is different from the USA system by implying it`s completely free and then say it`s barbaric? I don`t believe you for a second saying `feminists to fundamentalists openly despised trans women`...in the 70s? Fundamentalists? Where was the public recognition of `trans men and non-binary women` in the 1990s US? I also don`t believe your last sentence...it`s one or the other, the scapegoating of reactionary demagogues (scapegoating? what for? taking other people`s healthcare from them?) OR `trans peoples rights... legally established now for decades`. Maybe start with the second-wave feminist TERF`s...name names.
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  26. Yes. You can`t change sex. `Gender` is irrelevant imo. Sure, you can dress up in clothes, make up, hairstyles etc traditionally associated with the opposite sex, but you usually don`t look very convincing and can easily take it all off at the end of the day. So---gender...nonsense. Sex...immutable definition of two body types...male and female. That`s why Abigail Thorn looks like a man trying to look like a woman. And why Freddy McConnell looks like a woman trying to look like a man. Because they are male sex and female sex respectively.
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  27.  @montyswift5661  Yeh, sure, whatever you say. Still not giving me the sane logical reasons why this man is a woman though.
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  28. Most of trans relies heavily on stereotypes of masculinity. Why do you think `trans men` value their facial hair, beard growth and deep voice...things a lot of men don`t have? I don`t see what there is in trans/queer/gender ideology that needs to be taught to save men from the horror of feeling they`re not manly enough. LGBTQIA+ is all just another set of cliches. The man pretending to be `Abigail Thorne` is seen as a classically attractive `woman`...that`s most of the reason for his success. If he looked like Rachel Levine, he wouldn`t be successful. There`s no escaping gender cliches, and the trans ideology just creates more of them. Why not forget them, and be yourself?
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  29. That`s part of the language used by the blue-haired student to imitate `communities` of the gay, black and womens` movements from the 60s onward, that the activists have borrowed so much of their language, attitude and organisation from. They lean heavier on the guilt and emotional blackmail (you`re evils bigots and transphobic if you disagree) but have forgotten one crucial thing...actually having something tangible that they want to see changed. The crossdressing fetishists have snuck in , and the teenage girls are just collateral, but useful for the emotional blackmail of `you`re harming the children...`
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  30. This video is so aimed at kids...still making sure they can believe they a gender other than male or female (Nish, `male or female` is birth-sex, gender is `man` or `woman`...but hey, that may have been changed by Stonewall recently). So what genders beside `man` or `woman`? That`s why we`re waiting for the xenogenders to be taught in school, because it`s so real. SRS is fine to be taught...it`s a physical event in someone`s lie...it`s real. `Non-binary` isn`t. But yes, this is one for the teens and the tweens, a last desperate attempt to indoctrinate. Most of the targets of the propaganda are secretly glad of the Cass Report...it gives them a great excuse not to follow the other 3 girls in the class who are planning top surgery when they`re older.
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  31. The binary system is here to stay because it`s massively successful. For the purposes of medicine and healthcare, there is nothing to unlearn...you`ve said it yourself bodies are either male or female with some in between. That`s what medicine and healthcare deal with. You can say you`re a `transfemme non-binary` but physically as you`ve said, you`re either male, female or in between. There is absolutely no benefit in a `non-binary` system. It`s just terms people use in gender identities and expressions that are completely optional. If you want to just call everyone a `person`, that is an imprecise tool, when we have precision already established, and is a backward step for society.
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  32. There`s no way is your ex a `gorgeous woman`. He`s a man. Even if he had transitioned earlier (I suppose to make him an even more `gorgeous woman`) he`d still be a man. What was stopping him `transitioning` before the age of 30? In most nations he could start the process at 18 with therapy beforehand. It sounds like his issue, especially as he got married (an unusual thing for someone suffering from `gender dysphoria` to do).
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  33. The man masquerading as a woman took precedence over the women masquerading as a man. Interesting.
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  34. As Abigail Thorn says in the video, it`s like getting an abortion...the decision of the person themselves. So let them loose from the NHS...see it all as body modification through medical and surgical means. HRT should be affordable, top surgery is around 10,000 in the UK, and bottom surgery 15-25,000. Keep the NHS out.
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  35. Because the move now is to get `gender identity` to trump `birth-sex` and the man pretending to be a woman gets to be in womens` spaces, lives and events against their will and all because he has self identified as a `woman`. T`hat`s why people care so much. If they weren`t determined to have their `gender identity` (the pretend) be more important their `birth-sex` people would have no problem, as you say, live and let live. But the trans community really want people to lie to themselves and use opposite sex pronouns, and to have the same rights of the sex-group they are pretending to be a part of...and that`s unacceptable.
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  36. The British media are overwhelmingly left-leaning, and they are making trans an issue. Most people aren`t interested in trans issues, and are still focused on issues to do with finance and jobs, etc, with neither party looking good to deliver. If anything the Left, as in this video, are the ones distracting from the collapse of the Left and the rise of the extreme Right, facilitated by the Left`s own extremism. Trans issues are just hilariously crazy to most people. The Conservatives are a lame duck government who`ve just called an election...how are they distracting the electorate from anything?
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  37.  @Cle-o  The OP isn`t talking about women only spaces where people work and women voluntarily go to use the service. It`s as the OP says, a space put aside because women have a different body type and those spaces are segregated. You mention `trans women`(men) seeking refuge, well that sounds like a domestic abuse or rape shelter, where the segregation is for a specific life event. Life events that occur much less frequently in `trans womens` (mens`) lives. And there`s no way men `(trans women`) are, your quote, `among the most vulnerable groups in the world to sexual and violent assault, murder and discrimination`. Putting aside discrimination, the group most vulnerable are women,even now in the wars in the world being mass-raped and murdered...at the hands of men, the group to which `trans women` belong. Now, not all men are rapists of women, but all rapists of women are men, so we have to follow that rule and not fall for this `trans women`(men) are the victims` nonsense. Your post is complete invention.
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  38. The Department Of Education wants to teach that the `gender identities` non-binary, agender, bigender, demi-boy etc are all contestable and haven`t been proven by science. This is going further than I would, which is not to teach `gender identities` at all. Schools don`t want to teach 1 idea of the gender identity for boy and 1 for girl...how do you teach that? They`ll teach biological physical reality, and that`s it. Your leap into `anyone that doesn`t fit in those boxes is wrong and needs to be `corrected` is hyperbolic gaslighting. In the UK Stonewall/LGB advise in school here are the boxes to fit in, and nothing else...the Education system doesn`t want any of those boxes at all, just the two biological sexes.
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  39.  @montyswift5661  Gender distress is not a sufficiently defined `medical issue` though. Some clients want hrt for years, others for a few months so they get a deeper voice. Then there are optional physical operations. That sounds like cosmetic surgery and body modification to me. Not a medical issue. Therefore, the client pays for it themselves. And outside of the so called `trans` community, nobody believes there are `trans` people. Nothing has been proven by science, and nothing has defined it as a medical issue. What transphobic indoctrination? I thought your whole point was nothing is taught in schools about trans people. You`re the ones who declare everybody who isn`t trans is `cis`. So obviously, we don`t believe in your ideology...now move on.
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  40. Good point. Media is finished because it`s reporting trans identifying men as `women` committing violent crimes...against women. It`s just men attacking women as usual. So that pronoun twisting has to change. Politics, because it`s coming out with batshit nonsense like GRCs and self id has been lost for years. Forget those areas of middle class failure...we now need to worry about the rise of the extreme Right-wing.
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  41.  @TheVibes101  Debating what semantics? What lies have I told? The Cass Review isn`t pseudo scientific trash...it`s reviewing protocols already in place since 2022. I am totally indifferent to trans people...I was discussing the OP`s statement that our UK government is very right-wing. And you`re just being pathetic with personal attacks instead of addressing what i have actually commented. Main point is; The conservative government is overseeing more GICs in the UK regions which means instead of having one central GIC, we have several across the country. More nurses, more doctors and more beds. How is that restricting trans healthcare? How is that `very right-wing`?
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  42. No, let`s not teach about gender...let`s teach kids to stop bullying people they see as different. If only LGB focused on that in schools and not on `demigirls` and other invented genders. Why do `trans kids` need to know there is help available...conveniently only from LGB? The UK has taken the moves needed to get the grooming LGB orgs out of schools. And gender won`t be taught, except as a highly contested ideology. That is, possibly not true and certainly unscientific.
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  43. Diversity is now such a part of Pride Month that straight people are represented. Because of trans nonsense, `lesbians` are straight men (`trans women` like Abigail Thorn) gay men are straight women, aroaces and non-binaries who can of course be straight are now under the LGBTQIA+ banner, so therefore straight people are ridiculously in the community. So no, diversity isn`t the key...and especially when it leads to large communities within nations that are even more sexist, homophobic and racist than the host nation.
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  44. No, Mother Nature is heterosexual...that`s how you get children, through heterosexual coupling. Yes, we are born male and female from male and female...but for the purposes of the survival of the species, we`ve divided labour on physical and biological grounds. Most people accept the human psyche is neither male nor female, it just is. Yes, many animals are bisexual, but we only have animals due to heterosexuality. No, exclusive heterosexuality isn`t unnatural and abnormal. You recommend a film you call brilliant and AMUSING, so I assume your other comments are trying to replace the word `homosexuality` with `heterosexuality` and see how that changes things. It isn`t really helpful, many societies haven`t seen homosexuality as being `unnatural` and `abnormal`...they found a place and use for gay men. I`m not aware that Catholicism is known for taking a such a hardline on homosexuality...it`s seen as anti family that`s all. Maybe you need to talk about Islam if you want a religion where even last week a mosque in the west would have called for the stoning and killing of gay men.
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  45.  @ambientjohnny  Well said. I remember an animated video obviously aimed at teenagers about `non-binary` identity, which started with the image of a `man` (muscular, big) and the voiceover said `Man..strong and confident`, then an image of a `woman`(floaty, soft lines) with the voiceover saying `Woman...sensuous and mysterious`. And then asked if you felt you didn`t fit in either of those four descriptors of the two sexes. Well these male and female attributes are laughable nonsense, and are more likely to create gender distress than anything for the ...many...teens who won`t conform, and especially the girls who aren`t `sensuous and mysterious`. Then they`re given a choice of gender identities, in this case `non-binary`. Well of course they`re going to have problems.
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  46.  @itcouldbelupus2842  Yes, and they`ve been probably using them since the Stone Age, got it. But now they want legal protection and the right to call themselves women while skulking around as they have always done. That`s the difference. You`ve pretty much told on yourself there. Maybe men pretending to be women could stop using spaces where they`re not wanted?
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  47.  @someonesomeone25  Female-only spaces have been here for decades and don`t need a `policy explanation` as they are not new, what is new is men pretending to be women wanting to use those spaces. It`s up to them to argue their case, which is impossible to argue as they are not female. So they resort to gaslighting. Again you`re arguing for the majority group...why should policy be changed for a tiny minority of deluded men? Why should 50% of the population change for barely 1% who are playing pretend?
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  48. Exactly. It`s just dull, white middle class people with bullshit `science` trying to lord it over everybody else. Laughable nonsense.
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  49. Few people know about the 72 virgins in Islam, highly doubt an Islamophobe would, and why would Islam be under the `wokeness` umbrella for people `so filled with hatred`? Oh, because `woke` people are pro-Islam, the most anti-woke religion of all time? 72 is just a much higher number than 2, which is how many genders there are.
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  50. Notice how they haven`t done a video about the recent riots/protests?
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