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Eyeroll time. SWR launch the first intersex inclusive train

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Needmoresleep · 28/03/2023 23:49

And it will take you all the way to Bournemouth.

(My friends DiL has a DSD. Her particular chromosome disorder comes with various health problems including heart. It seems very wrong to trivialise illness/disability.)

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23415847.south-western-railway-launches-first-intersex-inclusive-train/

Intersex inclusive train launched in Dorset

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https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/23415847.south-western-railway-launches-first-intersex-inclusive-train

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Laladybird · 29/03/2023 16:50

KatMcBundleFace · 29/03/2023 16:15

Women with PCOS already feel bad enough, without being told they are somehow not a woman any more. I'm in lots of PCOS Facebook groups and there's lots of low self esteem. I was diagnosed with PCOS in my 20s, but in my 40s they could see no sign of it. 🤷‍♀️

DSDs are lifelong medical conditions (all on the binary too). Women with PCOS are women. Women with DSDs are women.

Fuck off and leave us alone.

Another route to suck anxious young women into gender ideology.

nepeta · 29/03/2023 17:36

I presume this is the sign of a fully ripened trans movement? Organisations trying desperately to think of more and more extreme ways of demonstrating 'inclusiveness' without spending any real money on it at all?

And women with DSD are women, just as women with any particular health condition are women.

I would have thought that wheelchair-accessibility etc. would be much more relevant for trains than something like this.

Genetta · 29/03/2023 18:32

would have thought that wheelchair-accessibility etc. would be much more relevant for trains than something like this.

Absolutely, Pokesdown station has been waiting since 1987 for it's lift to be mended.
Dorchester station has horrendous gaps between platform and train. You can only get from one platform to the other via a bridge with no lift or .7mile walk and then they waste money on this.
The local MP Chris Loder used to be Head of New Trains for SW Railways. I'm far from a supporter but he does get involved in SW railway issues, so I'll be contacting him.

Boiledbeetle · 29/03/2023 20:58

FrancescaContini · 29/03/2023 10:19

I’ve never been asked about my sexuality or “gender identity” when booking a train ticket or when boarding a train - is this going to be a new thing? Do I need a rainbow lanyard?

The Inter-Sex to Bournemouth is going to become a fantastically rich source for parody and euphemism, I suspect.

I’ve never been asked about my sexuality or “gender identity” when booking a train ticket or when boarding a train.

I have, Sighs happy sigh at fun memories with a train guard.

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