LGBT month - This is a weird event to have during work time...

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Our work LGBT Network has invited us all to a talk during most people's working time (2-3pm on a Monday) that involves "A reflection on transgender and intersex inclusive anatomy education initiatives... including an EDI Biomedical Sciences project using 3D printing and wax modelling to represent transgender, intersex and cisgender perineal anatomy."

This is an event for a general audience. Most people where I work, do not work in anatomy or even in medicine, although a small minority of people do.

In fact, in the teams group where I saw it advertised, no one would be working in the medical field at all.

A web page with a list of events, this one included, has been linked to by our director in a regular email he sends to our department along with a recommendation to attend some of the events.

I know it's optional to attend but it just feels very odd to have this suggested as something I should be spending my working time on when it's completely unrelated to my work.

Has whoever tagged this event as lgbtq+ month relevant considered how it will potentially open up unwelcome speculation about what the genitals of post-surgery trans colleagues might look like? I can't imagine that the majority of trans people would welcome this event as helping them be accepted. It's supposed to be TERFs that are keen on 'genital inspections'.

Given the vast naturally occurring variety in the genitalia of biological women and men who have had no surgery, it may be that the message from this session is meant to be that we are all very different. But it's coming over as a bit 'freak show'. Instead of having lots of models of abnormal anatomy suspended in formaldehyde and lining a lab wall, will we now have a heap of 3D models of deformity in every medical department which students can not only look at within a glass jar but handle and manipulate? Perhaps this needs to be a thought given here about medical ethics?

I can see the topic and the technology may be interesting in university research setting looking at medicine/biology. I agree with @LGBTmonth it's a weird choice for LGBT month. I would have said it's pretty insensitive.

My thoughts, too

Hahaha you need to go to this!

Id definitely be going and recording the whole shit show and sending it out for comment. If it is online you can quite easily record it without using your work equipment.

Woop. A Willie modelling class at work!

Sounds like a great talking point that you can share with all your colleagues.

Is it something you can ask people to compare with their own?

Do you get to make it and leave it on your desk, without being done for potentially offending or being seen to sexual harassment your colleagues?

Amazing.

I've looked at the link but can't see if it's open to the public too. I'm a bit nervous about clicking on it, so maybe I'll check out the uni's website to see.

If there's one type of body which has been 'othered' through the years, it's the female type which has typically only been of interest to science when it has a baby growing inside it.

I've looked at the link but can't see if it's open to the public too. I'm a bit nervous about clicking on it, so maybe I'll check out the uni's website to see.

If there's one type of body which has been 'othered' through the years, it's the female type which has typically only been of interest to science when it has a baby growing inside it.

Sorry, posted twice.

They'll either make a profit by laying off staff and/or the rest of our work schedules will dictated by algorithms programmed at speeds the human brain was not designed for.

I'm beginning to freshly appreciate the prescient writings of 1960’s dystopian futuristic authors in which they envision how technology has progressed to such an extent that it has damaged our humanity and destroyed an ability to live a meaningful life.

Didnt that weirdo group do sex ed.for kids where they got them to make clay models of genitals?

Was that not (or also) a public educational "artwork" aimed at childrens days out /school tours?

Cant recall.the details now. Was it 'the family sex show'? And good god, how did anyone decide that was an appropriate name?

Humm....
could have been them (as well) but my memory was more of a dedicated "show and tell" event.

Here is that twit. Even the title of the show was enough. How does she think that would have sounded to any child who was victim of CSA?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/10/cancel-culture-rightwing-activists-family-sex-show

Proud Trust did Playdoh genitals.

www.thesun.co.uk/news/22553142/sex-education-schools-shock-parents/

We discussed the predatory nature of that show on here at the time with their aim of "using pleasure as a vehicle for consent" - targeted at children aged 5 and above !!!

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4530725-A-Detailed-Look-At-The-Family-Sex-Show

I’d question whether it was not terribly inappropriate to risk othering trans people in this way, and objectifying their genitals for prurience’ sake!

On another thread people are talking about a woman suing doctors for botched genital surgery.

Doctors eventually had to remove “a severely deformed, scarred and nonfunctional structure that was intended to serve as phallus,” the suit alleges.

Are they going to have 3-D models of this?

Or even what it was meant to be? A rolled up piece of arm skin stitched into a woman's groin, with fake testicles used to pump it up with saline solution?

I'm guessing not...

In response to PP I was going to sign up but didn't because I am not going to be forced to use Microsoft teams.

Any how found this timetable which I think is meant to enlighten staff at the University.

Sorry to OP as this doesn't respond to that, but it is a joy(?) to read - Not https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/lgbtq-history-month

Haven't read the full thread - but isn't the perineum the bit inbetween and around your bits - and not the actual genitals themselves - so is the same in everyone?

Well someone's making money from selling this and others are apparently proving there's a market for it.... to what end, I'm not sure.

What's the point of this knowledge in the work place? Is there some company purpose to knowing the anatomic variances, or is this in the line of equipping people to be sexual partners and on the Good Girls Love PIV how-to sex articles for lesbians and cotton ceiling seminars for men end of the market?

Funny how they persist in using intersex rather than DSD because the word suggests that humans can be 2 sexes. Which they can’t.

If you did have a DSD you might have a micropenis, or hypospadias (failure of penis to develop normally, ranges from urethral meatus being a bit off line to very major abnormalities) or abnormal clitoral development or abnormal internal reproductive tract & urinary tract - but strictly speaking I think your actual perineum would be normal. Of course many people with a DSD have an entirely normal reproductive tract (Klinefelter's syndrome being the prime example).
I may be entirely wrong - but anatomically the genitals are not part of the perineum. Definitely altered by childbirth! Bet they don't discuss that in the workshop.

You could probably cobble together a fairly realistic neo vagina by skinning a couple of chicken breasts and sewing the skins into an open ended pouch.

D you put the tandoori marinade on before or after? Just asking for a curry mad friend.