This article shows some small but positive steps in the discussion over medical transition for children - but equally some disturbing comment

Young Australians are exploring gender more than ever before abc.net.au/news/2022-03-1…
It is positive that includes the history of a girl who realised that ‘becoming’ a boy would not automatically ‘fix’ anything. But terrifying that she has been told and believes you can just switch back and forth at will.
This child who likes wearing trousers and having short hair, wants surgery to confirm a ‘non binary’ identify. As child has female body, assume this means a double mastectomy. There is no coming back from that.
The doctor quoted in the article as usual, equates use of puberty blockers over many years with the short term use of puberty blockers to deal with precocious puberty. These two things are not the same. There is no evidence that long term use is ‘harmless’ - quite the reverse.
But I want to hold on to the positives. A year ago, I don’t think the girl who decided she would stay a girl, would have been allowed to tell her story. Once it is admitted that other things may be operating to make a child wish to reject their body -
- then irreversible interventions have to be seen in a different light. Australia considers cross sex hormones for children ‘therapeutic’ treatment. I hope they think again. A female on many years of testosterone cannot simply ‘switch back’.

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Mar 15
Well done @MForstater for revealing exactly what is going on. It is now for others to ask themselves if this is a road that it is safe to go down - where one group’s assertions about reality define it for everyone else Image
This is a serious question requiring serious thought. Because the amount of energy and time you will need to spend dealing with those who reject one conception of ‘reality’ will be immense. There will be many court cases. Image
And you wont be able to confine this approach to simply issues around ‘gender identity’. Those to whom you give the power to redefine reality will use it. For any issue they wish. Poster refers to @MForstater as ‘Sue’ - assume means ‘she’ but who knows any more? Image
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Mar 14
And here we have it. To challenge another’s identity is to render them a ‘corpse’ - without YOUR compelled belief in their ‘identity’ they cannot even live.

When did this start being pushed as a sensible way for anyone to engage with the world? ImageImage
And so we inch towards understanding. Bringing in discussion of Rachel Dolezal ‘offensive’ - presumably because many are not yet ready to concede ‘trans racialism’. Image
When objecting to yet another EDI questionnaire that requested I inform it whether my gender now was the same as the one I was assigned at birth, I replied that this was as offensive as asking me if my disability was assigned at birth.
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Mar 14
Lack of knowledge of the law is a serious thing. The person who assaulted @Belstaffie accepted a caution. This means they admitted they had committed an assault. This will be on the Police National Computer and will build up solid picture of patterns of criminal behaviour.
You would not know this from the comments of their supporters however. These people are not being good friends to this assailant. Encouraging and empowering people to think physical attacks are noble and necessary, leads no where good.
If the police continue to investigate women for stickering, they need to give the attention these physical assaults deserve. Because there is your ‘escalation’.
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Mar 13
Many people seem to have this problem. Let's give one example - the Kimberly Nixon case. Whose rights should prevail? the male bodied person who wished to be a rape counsellor? Or the female bodied victims who said no?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_…
Amazingly, the women won that case. Their rights to dignity prevailed against the rights of a male bodied person to be validated. Whether you agree with the outcome or not, there is no doubt that this is a prime example of how asserting one right diminishes another.
Let me give you another example. I don't have the right to sit anywhere I like on a plane because I am physically disabled. I would risk impeding the exit of others if I sat by the emergency exits.
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Mar 12
About to start. I am glad we are - at last - able to have these conversations. There is nothing dangerous or unsatisfying about being closer to the truth.
People from all over the world are joining the webinar. Simultaneous Spanish translation. Not only is detrans a huge part of the trans narrative, they are much maligned. Now 26k on sub Reddit.
Stella was told that detransitioners were ‘vanishingly small’ part of the community. Very important that we hear their voices. The detransitioners created this day.
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This account was banned by Medium for ‘hate’. This is what I wrote about my disability
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