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"Delay to self-ID puts trans people’s sexual health at risk, charities warn"

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Igneococcus · 12/07/2019 06:37

Times Scotland today:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/delay-to-self-id-puts-trans-people-s-sexual-health-at-risk-charities-warn-rxw9k7kf0?shareToken=7c1270ec050747101d90804f49f17056

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JessicaWakefieldSV · 12/07/2019 07:37

Might be more useful to focus on HIV rates for transwomen in Scotland if you want to make a convincing case.

Yes. It’s a bit like all the trans charities using global death rates to push through self ID too.

How about some actual relevant stats and evidence.

Forgotthebins · 12/07/2019 07:17

Agree, their point is very unclear. Women know what it's like to get denied contraception by religious healthcare professionals so I can understand what it is like to feel denied and judged and I don't wish that on anybody. But they say nothing that shows why self-id would improve health for their community (as opposed to, say, specialist services). Meanwhile self-id has already been proven to mess up safety in women's prisons where it is effectively already in practice. So even if they are right and self-id is a magic health service wand, then they are at best supporting a policy tool which has had unintended effects for female prisoners and women in refuges, and looking to export a problem to different vulnerable communities, which is just not fair.

TurboTeddy · 12/07/2019 07:17

Globally trans women are 49 times more likely to have HIV than the general population, the World Health Organisation has said.

Might be more useful to focus on HIV rates for transwomen in Scotland if you want to make a convincing case.

SarahTancredi · 12/07/2019 07:08

How would removal of any medical intervention somehow mean they accessed more medical care. Confused

truthisarevolutionaryact · 12/07/2019 07:05

It's just a non stop whinge fest.

Earlywalker · 12/07/2019 07:05

Does anyone know if there’s a reason they haven’t they just started using Transwoman and transman on people’s medical records? That way professionals can address things relating to biological sex without misgendering?
Then feelings and pronouns are adhered too while records remain factual as not to put anyone more at risk?

Igneococcus · 12/07/2019 06:58

I think their health would be at much greater risk if vital information about their biological sex would be obscured in their files.

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JoyceJeffries · 12/07/2019 06:50

There’s no evidence, just the usual emotional blackmail.

JessicaWakefieldSV · 12/07/2019 06:42

Any actual evidence they’re prevented from accessing sexual healthcare? Not sure how self ID helps that. It’s another ‘they’ll die if you don’t do what they want’ angle.

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