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

[LGBTmonth]

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.

Hi, no they aren't.

HTH.

Only in the minds of deluded people.

Hi, no they’re not.

Not even going to discuss the term ‘cis’.

But intersex was used by physicians and others many decades ago when there was misunderstanding, inappropriate surgeries, medical arrogance and even cases of fraud. That term, however, came to be correctly seen as highly stigmatising, wrong and confusing (Lee et al 2006).

The medical profession replaced that term in medical lexicon with the more appropriate and correct term DSD. Originally this acronym referenced the term ‘Disorders of Sexual Development’ - referencing the problem with sex characteristics - but for the last decade it was changed to ‘Differences of Sexual Development’ as ‘disorders’ was also stigmatising.

You ought to be aware that many individuals and advocacy groups are highly offended by the term intersex, which denies them a sex. And It is odd that you are claiming it’s a medical term if you’re in a related medical field. You need to be better informed about the correct medical terminology.

Not even going to discuss the term ‘cis’.

The term 'CIS' is a joke used by the trans community, it comes from 'cissy porn' and I remember when they discovered that it also means 'on the same side of' in chemistry and then they flooded the internet with 'it just means 'on the same side of'' and it became a 'thing'.

It is not a thing. It never was a thing. It is a duper's delight term that people who do not know the history keep using.

The word cis annoys me for many reasons but one of them is that in Latin, c was pronounced as a k so should be kiss, not siss