An interesting and insightful 24 hours on Facebook

Yesterday I posted an open letter to Michael Payne MP for Gedling just highlighting some of the impact that the recent ruling on gender in the UK Supreme Court of Appeal will make to me. As the letter was an open letter I also posted it to a small number of local Facebook community groups that I’m/was a member of. I did that fully knowing that I would open myself to comments from the less educated and open minded aspects of society so it wasn’t something I did lightly.

The results have been interesting to say the least. First of all 3 of the 4 Facebook community groups were happy at me posting the open letter and made no attempt to stop or remove my post. To those I offer my respect, you might or might not agree with what I have said but you accept that you represent all parts of your respective communities.

One Facebook Community group however actively blocked my post. All I would say to this group is that if you create a group and call it a “Community” then you really should be open to every part of that community, and not just the parts that you like and agree with as creator/admin. Needless to say that I am no longer a member of that Facebook Group.

The most pleasant result of posting was the overwhelming positive response from so many people. I would say something like 95% of all the replies were supporting and open or expressed how my post has opened their eyes to something they didn’t understand before.

And of course, there were the inevitable haters and idiots with closed minds who no matter what you say or how you try and reach them they just have their own opinion and make up their own facts to support those misguided opinions and they will never change. And while I find that level of closed mindedness so sad I also accept that they have the right to those thought.

Finally, and these are the ones I find the most perthitic, are the ones who don’t have the intelligence to even put together a cohesive argument to hate trans people. They just band around insults and derogatory comments and threats of violence. I guess in the hope that they will upset me and others. It’s like a 5 year old trying to have an argument by calling you names but if a 5 year old behaved like that you would tell them to grow up. And let be honest, you can beat the living daylights out of me and it doesn't make me wrong and you right!

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An open letter to Michael Payne MP for Gedling