Leading barrister warns that the kit – used to support gender-questioning children – is likely to be in breach of equality laws and could violate pupils’ rights

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  • @AVincentInSpace
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    93 months ago

    In this house we treat medical professionals with respect

    • FfaerieOxide
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      -93 months ago

      In this house we treat medical professionals with respect

      In this house we hate cops and a person who participates in condemning someone to a [assigned] “sex at birth” prison is a cop.

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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        123 months ago

        I mean, I can change it if it really bothers you that much. I just didn’t want to potentially confuse people by using terms they might not be familiar with. Ironically it seems I might have done that anyway.

        To be clear, I’m trans-femme enby, though I’m not exactly in a place right now to be able to medically or socially transition irl. Despite that, people saying “assigned at birth” or “birth sex” or whatever doesn’t really bother me. To me it’s just different ways of saying “this is who they were thought to be until they discovered their true selves”.

        • FfaerieOxide
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          -23 months ago

          I mean, I can change it if it really bothers you that much.

          “I hate cops” wasn’t a reply to you, friend. Nor about you. I was calling doctors cops and doing so in response to someone saying “respect doctors” as if that forgives their participation in systems of oppression. To be clear I respect doctors in so far as they treat gunshot wounds, hate them in so far as they snitch on the fact to the feds.

          I thought about explaining the reasoning for the distinction I insisted on making (it was for others’ benefit) but I didn’t want to reply to you again 'cause I feared coming off as a dick.

          • @AVincentInSpace
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            73 months ago

            i do not know how to explain to you that the concept of an assigned sex at birth is not a system of oppression

            • FfaerieOxide
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              03 months ago

              i do not know how to explain

              Yeah, I have trouble explaining falsehoods, too.

              Me? I tend to avoid the difficulty by not spreading lies, but you do whatever works for you, darlin’.

              • @AVincentInSpace
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                the M or F on one’s birth certificate is not an immutable doctrine, it’s a jumping off point. it’s a starting place so you can see if you like one side before switching to the other. more importantly, it’s a starting point that works for 99% of the population, and the remaining 1% are hindered by it less and less as social progress is made. once we as a society reach the point where there is exactly zero stigma attached to deciding you like the other side, or the middle, or some other fantastical place better than the side your penis, vagina, or lack thereof put you on, thus rendering that decision by your dad’s sperm cell irrelevant to anything besides how you are referred to the first handful of years of your life until you’re old enough to understand the difference and make your own decision, then I don’t see the point in going further than that.

                you might as well call giving an infant a name a system of oppression, since trans/enby people invariably change theirs.

                also, whether you believe doctors are cops or not, you do not get to call people meth heads based on the fact that you don’t like them.

                • FfaerieOxide
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                  13 months ago

                  Why are we forcing people into “sides” if we know for a fact they can be erroneous?

                  That creates a privileged class for who their assignment is congruent with their conception of self (cisgender people)
                  alongside a disprivileged out group forced to navigate transitioning out of an assignment they never should have gotten (transgender people)

                  you might as well call giving an infant a name a system of oppression

                  I do.

                  • @AVincentInSpace
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                    13 months ago

                    Why do programs have default settings if they’re not the ideal settings for everyone?

                    As I said in my previous comment, why shouldn’t the objective be to reach a point where transitioning is completely painless?

          • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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            13 months ago

            Eh, I figured you probably weren’t talking about me, but I wanted to make sure. I just wanted to make sure I hadn’t made you upset, so no worries. I decided to change it anyway.

            • FfaerieOxide
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              23 months ago

              I just wanted to make sure I hadn’t made you upset

              We are and have been good. I do want to stress however that not having transitioned by circumstance or choice does not mean you own anyone deference during intracommunal discussions.