BBC Doctor on people with a prostate

Have just come across this advertisement from a cancer charity I haven't previously been aware of "WHY - We Hear You".
They provide free therapeutic support to children, families and individuals in Bath and North Easy Somerset affected by cancer.

Offering male patients 30 minute mental health consultation.

Men - We Hear You.

I will await the corresponding Women - We Hear You announcement with interest.

Surprised it's not "people assigned a prostate at birth".

jeez those tweets

if you are sincerely unsure of whether or not you have a prostate then your GP will be able to clear it up for you in a matter of moments

......by telling you what sex you are

how the fuck can he look at himself in the mirror?

I think it's because Dr Ronx who he works with on Operation Ouch is NB so it's a bit too close for comfort

yeah, I think we see this a lot, with people doing the bonkers 'I'm going to pretend it's impossible to tell what sex people are' dance to try to appease trans people in their lives

they then get angry when they're called out on things like 'people with a prostate', rather than maybe questioning why they're making a twerp of themselves on social media, saying things that they know to be bollocks, to appease that person in their life

maybe the anger should be aimed at the person who is making them feel they should be making a public twerp of themselves, rather than at the people pointing out that they're making a public twerp of themselves

that was a bit convoluted, but hopefully you get the gist. why have people in your life who you feel pressure you to ignore material reality, basically

I posted links to an archive of the deleted tweets @Whatiswrongwithmyknee but my post (just above) has been hidden. In case it isn't unhidden, you can find an informative link to the archive at my post upthread dated Thu 13-Jan-22 20:25:27.

I say. Top speed deletion. Is four minutes a record?

Couple of his tweets

[quote UltraVividLament]@Whatiswrongwithmyknee it was a direct quote of his Twitter feed. Someone asked the question and the answer was given, verbatim as I've quoted it by Dr Xand. I wish I'd got a screenshot of it, because Dr Xand did delete all of the bonkers tweets afterwards. [/quote]
Pretty sure someone has a screen shot of it somewhere!

yy Do I think that's the problem 😬.

@Whatiswrongwithmyknee it was a direct quote of his Twitter feed. Someone asked the question and the answer was given, verbatim as I've quoted it by Dr Xand. I wish I'd got a screenshot of it, because Dr Xand did delete all of the bonkers tweets afterwards.

But he deleted his tweets by the day after so I think he realised the mess he'd got himself into.

I'm disappointed in Dr Xand about this. He's not thick and needs to stop behaving like he is.

Some men might not know the English word penis. To be truly inclusive you have to use the word man and anyone else born male.

So am I to take from this that as someone who was born without a prostate I am so how defective?

Male anatomy and health is so less talked about. Women have periods, go on the pill, get pregnant, have smears etc, we are used to our anatomy but I can see men out there who simply don’t know if having a prostate is one of those things like being able to roll your tongue. It’s something you either have or don’t have.

All he needed to say was ‘if you were born with a penis then you have a prostate’. The word man could have been avoided and everyone knows of they were born with a dick or not, no matter how they identify now.

Apart from being dehumanising, and confusing for target audiences, this way of classing people as prostate-havers, people with cervixes, people who menstruate etc isn’t useful anyway, as there are now plenty of males who ID as women, saying that they DO have cervixes, periods and so on. (I haven’t seen any females claiming to have prostates but it can’t be far off.)

So it just descends into even more meaninglessness. The only way to do it is to have a clear definition of male and female. (which trans people do understand, or they wouldn’t be able to identify as trans)

@musicalfrog they're both very woker than woke on this - rainbow flags and pronouns a-plenty.

Shame cos it does sour their superb Children's TV content... I just hope Mr Grumbles remains secure in his biological knowledge of sex.

All this genitalia labelling is infantile, dehumanising & stopping men and women accessing healthcare appropriately due to confusion

Has the tweet been deleted?

[quote DevonTF]@musicalfrog - 100% agree. Sick of the nonsense they get away with. I think we need to keep complaining.

Did anyone complain about their segment in December - on the covid vaccine, where Dr Xand referred to pregnant persons ?[/quote]
I didn't see that but I would have.

We went to see Operation Ouch live recently. I'm glad I didn't know about all this before hand or I would have spent the whole time begrudging the money I spent! As it was, it was a brilliant show. But I'll never see him in the same light again and it's made me feel quite sad tbh. I wonder what his brother's take on it all is.

I made a complaint to the BBC on this - just received this. We need to keep complaining

I complained about the article the bbc put out on prostate cancer which refused to name men as the sex class affected.

I.got quite a different response. Mine basically said that because prostate cancer UK state prostate cancer affects men /transwomen/non binary males that they stand by their use of the word people.

So in otherwords confessing that as everyine else does the dirty work they can be woke.