The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has left Stonewall

[PriOn1]

It appears that the RCVS quietly left Stonewall this year. I haven’t been able to find any information regarding this change, other than the Veterinary Record article pictured. That, despite the fact that I was one of the vets mentioned in the article who wrote to them, albeit a year earlier, regarding their continued membership of the scheme.

I’m glad they have left and hope that their comment about not requiring external help with diversity, which mirrors one I made in my correspondence, is true and they do not move over to any other transactivist groups.

To my fellow veterinary professionals, I hope this news is a relief to you, as it is to me. Thank you also to my fellow Mumsnetter, who alerted me to this news.

Fourgenders good, twogenders bad!

Will NO-ONE THINK of the TRANSGENDER LIONS, I ask you?! What will BECOME OF THEM NOW?!!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chebarnes_gender-genderdiversity-genderequality-activity-7119945925090791424-xVwf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Apparently if you write SOME OF YOUR POINTS IN CAPITAL letters is makes them IRREFUTABLE and DEMONSTRABLY TRUE.

GOOD TAE KNOW

I thought that cats and dogs only see in monochrome. How can kittens and puppies decide whether they prefer pink or blue.

Waiting to be told that they have polychromatic vision.

They identify as having coloured vision.

So it's true.

My vet is finding it difficult to understand that our dog is a cat. Maybe I need Inkjets vet.

Transanimals eh? This is why my very male cat squeaks like a girlie when s/he's playing String.

Cats and dogs are like red/green colour blind humans, so they can see some colours.

We tested out our dog with various toys and also gave they the option of beige, which them chose, so I can only assume they is non-binary.

If only the vet who watched them being born had been more woo-adjacent, we would never have thought they was he.

To be fair, I would expect people who spay and neuter animals as part of their job to be more than a little sceptical about the idea that "male" and "female" are identities, and to understand that gender is a human construct.

I wonder if there is a lot of crossover between veganism and the blue-haired and their Be Kind useful idiot allies? Especially in places like Brighton.

You can't have a debate about the ethics of livestock farming without acknowledging the biological reality of sex-based outcomes for calves, chicks, piglets etc.

That's an interesting question.

I think that might be true to some extent about vet techs, more so with people heavily involved in animal rescue.

Many of these people are not very good on ecology type thinking. So it's about how individuals feel and being nice to them, rather than looking at larger systems or complex sets of interactions.

I'm not so sure about with vets though. Most of the vets I go to are rural, and it's difficult to be a romantic rural vet (which is why I go to them.) Though it is harder and harder to find them, it's harder work and less money.