Humpty-Dumpty LOVED Bostock.

The idea that, after Bostock, words can have particular, well-defined meanings, is pretty naive. The "Equality Act" will mean whatever the courts say it means. Test-cases will emerge, and they had damned well be well thought-out test cases. I think the burden for us it to help society see Thanksgiving Youth as cups half full, rather than half empty. A boy who is making noise about failing as a boy and wanting to be girl, IS ALSO a boy whose struggles with his identity could be resolved in a positive manner, if he were supported by people who are familiar enough with that path, and could operate selflessly. A boy whose FAMILY is trying to defeat his masculine identity, whose CULTURE keeps trying to pack him off to Balls-Off Chop-Shop Gender Clinic, and who hooks up with a "boy-lover" who has a bunch of unprocessed mother-damage issues and wants to revisit them with the adult BL as the damaging mother, and the new confused boy as the recipient of the damage, so the BL doesn't have to feel the pain of that damage, THAT BOY is headed for ABSOLUTE DISASTER. On the other hand, a BL who has dealt with his mother-damage is very well placed to play the role of Gandalf, eyes twinkling, who can shine a much-needed beam of light now and then, but doesn't steal the boy's identity, picking him up in his arms and CARRYING him to Mordor. ---SCOTUSbaby