Aridane I know it’s recognised, I said myself it’s a psychological condition. I was referring to the languages and approach of the NHS on this.
Their page on GD is a disgrace given it’s speaking for the state medical system, a system you would expect to be unbiased, apolitical and based on proper medical science.
They use the language of transactivists, like sex being “assigned at birth” (a term co-opted from the intersex community, which is the only valid usage of it, and blatantly absurd in all other cases).
There are the spurious, unscientific theories about “gender identity” having a biological basis, which has absolutely not been demonstrated (in fact, where a trans person is also an identical twin, their twin is much more likely to not be trans than to also be trans).
And then more conflation of trans with intersex issues when they are entirely distinct, and people in the intersex community have asked TRAs not to do this.
This is the “capture” of the NHS by TRAs.
The whole concept of “gender identity” being a real, objective thing that should be prioritised over biological sex is misogynist TRA bullshit. Yes, there are some people who feel deeply unhappy about the sex they are (although increasingly that is not even necessary to declare yourself trans these days; many of the new generation of trans identifying males have no sex dysphoria at all and are very happy to keep their “female penis” and clearly, visibly male appearance).
But a male who has gender dysphoria is not a female, not a woman. Women are not men who don’t fit the man mould. We are human beings in our own right, we have our own reality, that of being born and brought up biologically female, living the reality of being a biological female, not “living as a woman” - which as a concept is in itself really offensive, suggesting that women are just a bunch of walking stereotypes.
We are not a small group or an echo chamber, FFS. We are just over half the population, the ones who give birth to every new human being, the ones who carry out the ENTIRETY of reproductive labour, whose relative physical vulnerability has been used against us by the other sex, the male sex, for all of recorded history.
It is precisely because of the historic and ongoing discrimination against us on the basis of our sex that sex is a protected characteristic in the Equalities Act 2010. The UN recognises that we are a disadvantaged group ourselves:
www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cedaw.
- if the evidence of your own life, #metoo, the pay gap, women’s lack of reproductive rights even in the western world, the two women a week killed by male partners or former partners in the UK alone, the horrifying levels of sexual harassment and assault etc etc etc weren’t enough for you.
Any attempt to blur the lines here and replace “sex” with “gender” is flouting that section of the Equalities Act and is an anti-woman action. You’ve got to ask yourself: who benefits?
None of the women here saying they want single sex toilets benefit, that’s for sure. We, already a disadvantaged, relatively vulnerable group, are further disadvantaged and made more vulnerable.
And yes, Aridane, some men DO sexually harass/assault their female colleagues in the workplace; have you really never had any idea that that’s a thing? There are predators in every single demographic of men, men who go to great lengths to seek out opportunities to predate, men who make the most of any opportunities that may arise. How can you be ignorant of this? Have you never read the papers, watched the news?
Did you not see the example I gave upthread of the school Site Manager who installed a hidden camera in the adults’ toilet? Don’t you know that there are whole websites dedicated to this voyeurism, where men upload their footage for other men to wank over? And you want to make it EASIER for these men to do that, you want there to be EVEN MORE female victims of this crime than there are already?
Why?
What is going on with you?