2025-05-27
• fifty-in-fifty • 218 words
On what subjects are you outspoken and on what subjects are you mostly mute?
I would say regarding this, one issue I am fairly outspoken on is urban planning. I find it a great shame that we in the UK have such terrible design for our cities, and particularly an excess of cars. We are far too dependent on cars in the UK, which has all sorts of problems, from pedestrian fatalities to impoverishing the population to just... making the city really unpleasant. They aren't even that much faster than getting around by bike, especially within the city. Plus, going outside of the city is practically impossible for a lot of places here without a car, unless you're lucky enough that it's a place that has a train station.
I think one of the most obvious contentious subjects that I am fairly mute on is trans rights. Really, I keep quite on it because I'm somewhat undecided. I have no problem with people being transgender - my general view is that people can do what they like - but I think it becomes more tricky when dealing with the idea of children being transgender/receiving puberty blockers, especially given how easily influenced they are. It's a difficult part of weighing up the freedom of the child with the fact that they may end up making an irreversible mistake. There is also the issue of transgender women in sports.