These Kids Need Help.

[Guest]

9 hours ago, The_DADDY said:

I'm usually all for choice. You want to call yourself a man but you were born a female?

Cool, you do that. ...

If you're concerned about a mental health crisis affecting girls in this context, you should read Time to Think by Hannah Barnes, instead of attention grabbing stories of dubious origin:
 

Quote

 

The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and Portman Trust in North London, was set up initially to provide - for the most part - talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity. But in the last decade GIDS has referred more than a thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty. In the same period, the number of young people seeking GIDS's help exploded, increasing twenty-five-fold. The profile of the patients changed too: from largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls, who were often contending with other difficulties.

 

Why had the patients changed so dramatically? Were all these distressed young people best served by taking puberty blockers and then cross-sex hormones, which cause irreversible changes to the body? While some young people appeared to thrive after taking the blocker, many seemed to become worse. Was there enough clinical evidence to justify such profound medical interventions in the lives of young people who had so much else to contend with?

 

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Hecate said:

Many people, mostly women, will tell you that if you want to keep your job, publishing contract, exhibition etc and don't want a slew of rape threats, death threats, doxxing and reports to and visits from plod, you'd better keep your gender critical, biological realist mouth shut and toe the line.

A follow up to this from today's Guardian: ‘A politically toxic issue’: the legal battles over gender-critical beliefs: A growing number of organisations have been found to have discriminated against women because of their views. What are employers learning from such cases?

 

Quote

 

Westminster city council and Social Work England last week became the latest to join a list of organisations – including Arts Council England, a barristers’ chambers and a thinktank – found to have discriminated against a female worker because of their gender-critical beliefs.

 

The social worker Rachel Meade’s win against the council and her profession’s regulator means she joins a select but growing group of gender-critical feminists who have successfully brought discrimination claims on the basis of their beliefs. ...

 

... On Monday, a tribunal began hearing a constructive dismissal claim from Roz Adams against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. Next month, Kenny McBride’s case against the Scottish government is due to be heard in Glasgow, while judgments are pending in a claim from Prof Jo Phoenix against the Open University and that of the Green party’s former deputy leader Shahrar Ali against the party.

 

In all four cases – and more in the pipeline – the claimants argue they were discriminated against because they hold gender-critical beliefs.

They hope to follow in the footsteps of the barrister Allison Bailey, and of the researcher Maya Forstater who obtained a landmark judgment in 2021 that her gender-critical beliefs were a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act. The campaign group Sex Matters, founded by Forstater, has identified at least 19 current cases.

 

 

[Prettytom]

1 hour ago, Hecate said:

If you're concerned about a mental health crisis affecting girls in this context, you should read Time to Think by Hannah Barnes, instead of attention grabbing stories of dubious origin:
 

 

You’ve not been around here for very long, have you? 😁

[pattricia]

The biggest problem is going to be a man who changes into a woman. If he has his penis removed, then changes his mind later on and wants to go back to a woman, he then can’t have children can he ?

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Prettytom said:

You’ve not been around here for very long, have you? 😁

I'm ever hopeful.