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Feb 24, 2023 • 14 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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🧵 On discrimination against people with Dementia from the gender ideology language demands placed on them

👉🏻womensrights.network/section3-adults

#NoToYourPronouns
▪️ 944,000 adults have dementia in the UK

🗣 Their communication disability needs are being ignored.

👵Women are greatly affected.

#NoToYourPronouns
🔹60-70% of carers for people with dementia are women
🔹Women are 2.3 times more likely to provide care for someone with dementia for over 5 years
🔹20% of female carers have gone from FT to PT employment as a result of their caring responsibilities
🔹17% felt penalised at work
The ability to process pronouns, indeed any language elements, is diminished in all dementia types:

▪️Alzheimer’s disease
▪️Vascular dementia
▪️Mixed dementia
▪️Dementia with Lewy Bodies
▪️Frontotemporal dementia
▪️Young-onset dementia

#NoToYourPronouns
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▪️Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
▪️Alcohol-related dementia
▪️HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND)
▪️Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
▪️Learning disabilities and dementia
▪️Rare dementias

#NoToYourPronouns
Language difficulties are recognised as a major problem for people with dementia (Banovic, Zunic, Sinanovic, 2018)

#NoToYourPronouns
There are many symptoms and language processing is highly inter-related.

#NoToYourPronouns
It is well recognised that people with Alzheimer’s disease dementia experience:

🔺Impaired understanding of pronouns
🔺Abnormal over-use of pronouns
🔺Working memory impairment
(Almor et al., 1999)

#NoToYourPronouns
And it is best that conversation partners avoid pronouns in favour of “concrete, specific and simple words” (Rau, 1993)

#NoToYourPronouns
People with dementia have legal rights:
▪️ UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
▪️ Equality Act 2010-Disability
▪️ Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) under EqA
▪️ The Care Act 2014
▪️The Mental Capacity Act 2005
& can expect
▪️ Reasonable adjustments
The NHS must meet the CQC regulatory requirements of the Accessible Information Standard (AIS)

#NoToYourPronouns
🔹People with communication disabilities have rights.

🔹People with disabilities have rights.

🔹We must do everything within our power to uphold those rights.

👉🏻 For more info: womensrights.network/disability-dis…

#NoToYourPronouns
Info from @_preston_writes at loupreston.substack.com
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Nov 22
A Pathway To Hell

The Pathways trial — which will give puberty blockers to vulnerable children, is a pathway to horrific lifelong harms and litigation which could cost taxpayers millions of pounds.

No child can give informed consent to an experiment which carries significant and well documented risks which include sterility, loss of sexual function, bone loss and possible cognitive impairment and increased cancer risk.
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All our unions, including the three largest in the UK, seem heavily invested in Transgender Awareness Week with not a thought for the dignity, privacy and safety of their women members.
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The unions publish guidance and model policies which are unlawful. The Supreme Court ruling in FWS was clear that trans identified men are not permitted to use women's facilities and yet the trade unions dictate otherwise putting female members in harm's way.
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❌No recognition of our legal right to single sex spaces.
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Yet another report of voyeurism in a unisex changing area. This kind of offending is now commonplace because providers and councils enable offenders with easy access in mixed sex 'changing villages' or similar. Single sex spaces are a vital safeguard against such activity and yet we see more and more women only facilities being replaced by mixed sex provision 1/4Image
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