Doesn't matter. You said people' lives weren't affected one iota. You were wrong. Maybe you should consider that rather than playing the 'poor me, people disagree with me' card. My wife's friend who has had to self exclude from rape crisis support has gone though a bit more than that.
Of course it matters, precisely because I wan't talking about trans issues, so they are completely irrelevant to my comment.
I was talking about Badenoch regularly stoking division on matters which as far as I can see simply do not negatively affect people's lives. Examples:
Banging on about footballers and opposition politicians taking the knee - how many people's lives were negatively affected by this?
Inferring that children were being forced to take the knee in school, despite their being no evidence for this (despite Daily Mail style hysteria). How many people are negatively impacted by not being forced to take the knee.
Her bizarre spat with the National Trust over their decisions to update some information in their properties to provide greater historical context. How many people consider their lives now ruined due to a new sign in Snoddington Manor up the road.
Banging on about statues and named buildings. If an organisation chooses to change the name of a building as the previous name didn't reflect their current values how many people are negatively affected.
And just recently there are her bonkers comments on maternity pay and civil service.
These are the kinds of examples I was thinking about - specifically loads of issues she has been continually banging on about when what she is railing against seems not really to negatively affect people at all.
Oh and by the way (just to be absolutely clear) I do consider that some people are negatively affected by the ongoing debates over trans issues and in a small number of cases significantly negatively affected. And that, of course, includes trans people.
You and I have different views on this matter and I have rarely, if ever, dipped my toe into this discussion as I have seen how one sided it is on this MB and how any comments that aren't aligned with your view attract vitriol (as seen in the last few comments on this thread when I wasn't even discussing trans issues at all). As such this will be my last comment on this matter.
Given that I have now clearly indicated that my comment (reply 87) was NOT about trans issues, then I suggest that replies 88-94 are a derail of the topic (as they do not relate to my comment) and should either be removed or moved to the trans rights thread.