Friday 1st March 2019

A home from home
Forum rules
Welcome to FTN. New posters are welcome to join the conversation. You can follow us on Twitter @FlythenestHaven You are responsible for the content you post. This is a public forum. Treat it as if you are speaking in a crowded room. Site admin and Moderators are volunteers who will respond as quickly as they are able to when made aware of any complaints. Please do not post copyrighted material without the original authors permission.
AnatolyKasparov
Prime Minister
Posts: 15626
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by AnatolyKasparov »

RogerOThornhill wrote:
PTO
Happy to oblige.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
tinybgoat
Speaker of the House
Posts: 2231
Joined: Mon 23 Feb, 2015 8:23 am

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by tinybgoat »

http://www.irishnews.com/news/northerni ... t-1562852/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Let there be no doubt. Irish America stands with the Irish north and south who are adamant that a hard border must not be restored. If it is, Irish Americans are prepared to saddle up again to oppose any post-Brexit UK-US trade deal.
These are not idle words. Irish-American Congressman Richard Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee where proposed trade deals are first considered. Other members of Congress who have significant say in any trade negotiation are either Irish American or have significant Irish American constituencies They have made no secret of their insistence that a soft border, one where goods and people can continue to flow freely across it, is an imperative.
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Paul Lewis reminding us of another example of targeted nastiness - pensioners with an adult dependent" from April next year -£68.35 p.w removed.Claims stopped in 2010,so also indicative of gratuitous bastardy given for obvious reasons numbers are small and reducing,of course the fact that is the case renders it "insignificant"(non means tested)
gilsey
Prime Minister
Posts: 6175
Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 10:51 am

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by gilsey »

Willow904 wrote: How can leave be the vote of the "left behind" when leave voters were more likely to own their own home. Some "left behinds" may have helped get leave over the line but they are not the driving force behind this project.
It's pretty easy for the MSM to string together a plausible story about the reasons the 'left behind' voted Leave, that's the thing. Not least, superficially logical reasons for concerns about immigration.
When it comes to the motivation of the comfortably off, who are after all much closer to their own class, it gets tricky. Hard to get far past xenophobia and exceptionalism.
One world, like it or not - John Martyn
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Apologies, bastardry?

Whatever it's Tories being Tories.
gilsey
Prime Minister
Posts: 6175
Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 10:51 am

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by gilsey »

tinybgoat wrote:http://www.irishnews.com/news/northerni ... t-1562852/
Let there be no doubt. Irish America stands with the Irish north and south who are adamant that a hard border must not be restored. If it is, Irish Americans are prepared to saddle up again to oppose any post-Brexit UK-US trade deal.
These are not idle words. Irish-American Congressman Richard Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee where proposed trade deals are first considered. Other members of Congress who have significant say in any trade negotiation are either Irish American or have significant Irish American constituencies They have made no secret of their insistence that a soft border, one where goods and people can continue to flow freely across it, is an imperative.
Anyone would think leaving the EU hadn't been thought through properly. :roll:
One world, like it or not - John Martyn
AnatolyKasparov
Prime Minister
Posts: 15626
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by AnatolyKasparov »

gilsey wrote:
Willow904 wrote: How can leave be the vote of the "left behind" when leave voters were more likely to own their own home. Some "left behinds" may have helped get leave over the line but they are not the driving force behind this project.
It's pretty easy for the MSM to string together a plausible story about the reasons the 'left behind' voted Leave, that's the thing. Not least, superficially logical reasons for concerns about immigration.
When it comes to the motivation of the comfortably off, who are after all much closer to their own class, it gets tricky. Hard to get far past xenophobia and exceptionalism.
This really is it, isn't it. Having to accept *people a lot like them* voted leave is never going to be comfortable.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
gilsey
Prime Minister
Posts: 6175
Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 10:51 am

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by gilsey »

RogerOThornhill wrote:I did wonder what the Sunderland to London Twitter thing was all about yesterday...
Tim Walker

Verified account

@ThatTimWalker
22h22 hours ago
More
I've a feeling Nigel Farage's march from Sunderland to London is presumably meant to evoke something of the spirit of the Jarrow march. That was however about a fair deal for workers and was not led by a jet-setting former commodities trader.
PTO
Apparently they'll be bussed between towns and it costs £50. Not quite the Jarrow spirit.
One world, like it or not - John Martyn
gilsey
Prime Minister
Posts: 6175
Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 10:51 am

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by gilsey »

Ste JM


@stejormur
Follow Follow @stejormur
More
Omfg Nigel Farage is going to try to lead a protest march over the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge. Capacity is 200 people or 6 cars. Unless this is a pathetically tiny march, it will take them FOREVER to cross the Tees



Narrator: it will be a pathetically tiny march.
One world, like it or not - John Martyn
gilsey
Prime Minister
Posts: 6175
Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 10:51 am

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by gilsey »

And apparently it's scheduled for a Sunday..... when the bridge is closed.

:rofl:
One world, like it or not - John Martyn
AnatolyKasparov
Prime Minister
Posts: 15626
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by AnatolyKasparov »

And in other news, it has just been reported that Farage recently made some rather off-colour comments about "the Jews" on US radio.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
gilsey
Prime Minister
Posts: 6175
Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 10:51 am

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by gilsey »

We have to stop pretending everything is as it was. Brexit represents a unique rupture and the old ways of thinking no longer work
In last night’s latest iteration of disjointed cluelessness, 324 MPs defeated an SNP amendment that would have ruled out leaving with no deal “under any circumstances, and regardless of any exit date.” They included seven Labour MPs, explicitly choosing a no-deal which would gravely harm their constituents over a no-Brexit which would upset some of them. This, too, is not normal. This is, in fact, a collective breakdown.
One world, like it or not - John Martyn
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ng-to-cope" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Surge in demand for schools leaves councils struggling to cope
Thousands of pupils in England denied place at their preferred secondary school
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/ ... ir-helgemo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... -equal-pay" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
User avatar
Willow904
Prime Minister
Posts: 7220
Joined: Thu 18 Sep, 2014 2:40 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by Willow904 »

" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
@joaniwalshi
Follow
Follow @joaniwalshi

More
The case against Miranda Yardley is over. The judge said there was no evidence.
4:05 PM - 1 Mar 2019

So this woman from Mermaids, Helen Islan, brought some kind of harrassment case against a transgender woman called Miranda Yardley that got thrown out for lack of evidence. So if there really wasn't anything close to harrassment going on, why did the person from Mermaids, a charity that supports trans kids, feel the need to pursue charges against a transgender person, a case that was always going to raise some eyebrows, I mean it doesn't sound very trans friendly or trans supportive, does it? The key seems to be that this Miranda Yardley, who seems quite a character, refuses to accept that transgender women are women and for some transactivists this equates to transphobia whoever it comes from, despite being indisputable scientific fact.


The problem Graham Linehan has with Mermaids and so seemingly endng up on the "wrong" side of this debate in the eyes of many, is that they are amateurs with no professional qualifications in healthcare, child psychology or safeguarding yet they are being allowed to go into schools and sell the idea that boys can become girls and girls can become boys, yet the reality is not anywhere near so simple. It involves experimental drugs that have permanent effects, such as infertility. It may be a reasonable compromise for someone who has struggled throughout their life with gender dysphoria, has had many years of unsuccessful counselling and is a fully mature adult who can make an informed choice, but for children? Young impressionable people who are still learning who they are and how they fit in the world? It's very worrying. Especially as there is a whole subset of extremely homphobic people out there for whom transitioning has become the new conversion therapy, with budding teenage lesbians being convinced through transactivism that they are really a boy in a girl's body despite never having grown up with any kind of unease about their gender identity until the question of sexual attraction came up.


Transgender people deserve rights and protections from discrimination just like everyone else but just like everyone else their right to live the way they choose cannot come at the expense of other people and their rights. And in the case of self-ID and being able to use women only spaces while still male-bodied, the rights of transgender people seem to be coming at the expense of women. I would never have got drawn into all of this if I hadn't seen such blanket acceptance of the idea of Graham Linehan being transphobic and "going off the deep end" as it were without any real analysis of the issues he was raising. Lots of people, like my husband, seemed to have picked up the idea Linehan had "lost it" almost as if by osmosis. Just read the allegation somewhere on social media and accepted it. Being such a lifelong fan, though, I needed proof, needed to see for myself and the more I've looked into it the more worried I've become. I just don't think anyone under the age of 25, who is still growing and maturing as a person, should be taking life changing hormone therapy, it's just wrong. We know so little of the effects and organisations like Mermaids that appear to condone it, that approach every questioning child as an automatic candidate, without the years of therapy that had previously been considered best practice, feel dangerous to me. I'm wondering what kind of society we are becoming that we are willing to allow these concepts to become the accepted norm with no debate over the ethics or consequences for wider society in such haste. We really shouldn't hurry into making self-ID law, but take the time to make sure we get it right.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/14489-2/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
PorFavor
Prime Minister
Posts: 15167
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:18 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by PorFavor »

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/ ... ir-helgemo

World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test
That's a weird one, isn't it?
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

"judgment also revealed that DWP admitted that its creaking IT systems that deal with employment and support allowance (ESA) claims were not fit for purpose"
User avatar
citizenJA
Prime Minister
Posts: 20648
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2014 12:22 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by citizenJA »

HindleA wrote:To say there is panic Brexit stockpiling at work is an unferstatement.Tensions are high.
Yep
User avatar
citizenJA
Prime Minister
Posts: 20648
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2014 12:22 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by citizenJA »

Good-evening, everyone
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Tanka a Japanese poem,apparently
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

@PF has been a while since I played a bridge.
PorFavor
Prime Minister
Posts: 15167
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:18 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by PorFavor »

HindleA wrote:Tanka a Japanese poem,apparently
Crosswording?
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Tokyo marathon this Sunday ,one of the six "majors",on my to do list.
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Yeah
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Looks up tobacco etc in Japanese in preparation.
PorFavor
Prime Minister
Posts: 15167
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:18 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by PorFavor »

[youtube]tl6u2NASUzU[/youtube]
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

refitman is well,red.
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Of course,work/participation enhances but being valued rather than devalued on that basis at a societal and personal level makes that less likely.See previous re "need"
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

And indeed ,arse about facery.
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Pretends not to look,could do with another six goals or so.
User avatar
citizenJA
Prime Minister
Posts: 20648
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2014 12:22 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by citizenJA »

Mike Pence in diatribe against socialism

Mike Pence, the US vice president, has offered another preview of the 2020 presidential election by whipping up conservatives with a diatribe against socialism. Pence earned raucous cheers and applause at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the National Harbor near Washington as he warned against “taking a hard left turn” that would deprive Americans of freedom.
hard left
I've heard those words used elsewhere
User avatar
citizenJA
Prime Minister
Posts: 20648
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2014 12:22 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by citizenJA »

Referring to Trump’s state of the union address, [Pence] added: “As the president said 24 days ago, so we must say with one voice: America will never become a socialist country.”
Attendees rose to their feet and chanted: “USA! USA!”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... 0008570cc6" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Venezuela gets mentioned
User avatar
citizenJA
Prime Minister
Posts: 20648
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2014 12:22 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by citizenJA »

I miss competent government
User avatar
refitman
Site Admin
Posts: 7693
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:22 pm
Location: Wombwell, United Kingdom

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by refitman »

This might interest Anatoly (any maybe others):
[youtube]AsYfbmp0To0[/youtube]
" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
User avatar
refitman
Site Admin
Posts: 7693
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:22 pm
Location: Wombwell, United Kingdom

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by refitman »

Willow904 wrote:
@joaniwalshi
Follow
Follow @joaniwalshi

More
The case against Miranda Yardley is over. The judge said there was no evidence.
4:05 PM - 1 Mar 2019

So this woman from Mermaids, Helen Islan, brought some kind of harrassment case against a transgender woman called Miranda Yardley that got thrown out for lack of evidence. So if there really wasn't anything close to harrassment going on, why did the person from Mermaids, a charity that supports trans kids, feel the need to pursue charges against a transgender person, a case that was always going to raise some eyebrows, I mean it doesn't sound very trans friendly or trans supportive, does it? The key seems to be that this Miranda Yardley, who seems quite a character, refuses to accept that transgender women are women and for some transactivists this equates to transphobia whoever it comes from, despite being indisputable scientific fact.


The problem Graham Linehan has with Mermaids and so seemingly endng up on the "wrong" side of this debate in the eyes of many, is that they are amateurs with no professional qualifications in healthcare, child psychology or safeguarding yet they are being allowed to go into schools and sell the idea that boys can become girls and girls can become boys, yet the reality is not anywhere near so simple. It involves experimental drugs that have permanent effects, such as infertility. It may be a reasonable compromise for someone who has struggled throughout their life with gender dysphoria, has had many years of unsuccessful counselling and is a fully mature adult who can make an informed choice, but for children? Young impressionable people who are still learning who they are and how they fit in the world? It's very worrying. Especially as there is a whole subset of extremely homphobic people out there for whom transitioning has become the new conversion therapy, with budding teenage lesbians being convinced through transactivism that they are really a boy in a girl's body despite never having grown up with any kind of unease about their gender identity until the question of sexual attraction came up.


Transgender people deserve rights and protections from discrimination just like everyone else but just like everyone else their right to live the way they choose cannot come at the expense of other people and their rights. And in the case of self-ID and being able to use women only spaces while still male-bodied, the rights of transgender people seem to be coming at the expense of women. I would never have got drawn into all of this if I hadn't seen such blanket acceptance of the idea of Graham Linehan being transphobic and "going off the deep end" as it were without any real analysis of the issues he was raising. Lots of people, like my husband, seemed to have picked up the idea Linehan had "lost it" almost as if by osmosis. Just read the allegation somewhere on social media and accepted it. Being such a lifelong fan, though, I needed proof, needed to see for myself and the more I've looked into it the more worried I've become. I just don't think anyone under the age of 25, who is still growing and maturing as a person, should be taking life changing hormone therapy, it's just wrong. We know so little of the effects and organisations like Mermaids that appear to condone it, that approach every questioning child as an automatic candidate, without the years of therapy that had previously been considered best practice, feel dangerous to me. I'm wondering what kind of society we are becoming that we are willing to allow these concepts to become the accepted norm with no debate over the ethics or consequences for wider society in such haste. We really shouldn't hurry into making self-ID law, but take the time to make sure we get it right.
It involves experimental drugs that have permanent effects, such as infertility.
Mermaids do not prescribe any medication. They are purely a counselling and advice service.

Any puberty blocking medication is a reversible process. Once treatment is stopped, puberty will begin as normal. Hormone therapy is only given to people that have finished puberty and after a lot of assessment, precisely because HRT is not reversible.

I've yet to see any actual description of what women's rights are at threat from additional trans rights. There is lots of nebulous talk (in the Graun for example) of "concerns" and "wider implications", but nothing is ever actually specified. But the point of the legislation is that a trans-woman is a woman and a trans-man is a man. People are not going to claim to be a different sex just to gain access to opposite sex areas.

The knock on affect of this scare-mongering is you get cops ejecting women from toilets because they look a bit 'masculine'.

There is also an issue of some really nasty right0wing groups now coming over here, and using the cover of 'women's rights' to push a wholly anti-trans and even anti-feminist message.
User avatar
citizenJA
Prime Minister
Posts: 20648
Joined: Thu 11 Sep, 2014 12:22 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by citizenJA »

The madness, anxiety and absurdity of a full-English Brexit
- John Crace
One of his best, I thought
AnatolyKasparov
Prime Minister
Posts: 15626
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:26 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by AnatolyKasparov »

Jennie Formby's letter to Tom Watson - ouch.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
User avatar
refitman
Site Admin
Posts: 7693
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:22 pm
Location: Wombwell, United Kingdom

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by refitman »

Apparently Chuka never felt happy in Labour. You'd never have guessed.
User avatar
refitman
Site Admin
Posts: 7693
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:22 pm
Location: Wombwell, United Kingdom

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by refitman »

I would recommend watching this, which explains what I'm trying to say much, much better:
[youtube]91_5OOmK1TQ[/youtube]
" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
User avatar
refitman
Site Admin
Posts: 7693
Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 7:22 pm
Location: Wombwell, United Kingdom

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by refitman »

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Jennie Formby's letter to Tom Watson - ouch.
Here's the letter: " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
PorFavor
Prime Minister
Posts: 15167
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:18 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by PorFavor »



Labour general secretary Jennie Formby rebukes Tom Watson in letter to Labour MPs (New Statesman)
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/s ... ter-labour
User avatar
Willow904
Prime Minister
Posts: 7220
Joined: Thu 18 Sep, 2014 2:40 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by Willow904 »

refitman wrote:
Willow904 wrote:
@joaniwalshi
Follow
Follow @joaniwalshi

More
The case against Miranda Yardley is over. The judge said there was no evidence.
4:05 PM - 1 Mar 2019

So this woman from Mermaids, Helen Islan, brought some kind of harrassment case against a transgender woman called Miranda Yardley that got thrown out for lack of evidence. So if there really wasn't anything close to harrassment going on, why did the person from Mermaids, a charity that supports trans kids, feel the need to pursue charges against a transgender person, a case that was always going to raise some eyebrows, I mean it doesn't sound very trans friendly or trans supportive, does it? The key seems to be that this Miranda Yardley, who seems quite a character, refuses to accept that transgender women are women and for some transactivists this equates to transphobia whoever it comes from, despite being indisputable scientific fact.


The problem Graham Linehan has with Mermaids and so seemingly endng up on the "wrong" side of this debate in the eyes of many, is that they are amateurs with no professional qualifications in healthcare, child psychology or safeguarding yet they are being allowed to go into schools and sell the idea that boys can become girls and girls can become boys, yet the reality is not anywhere near so simple. It involves experimental drugs that have permanent effects, such as infertility. It may be a reasonable compromise for someone who has struggled throughout their life with gender dysphoria, has had many years of unsuccessful counselling and is a fully mature adult who can make an informed choice, but for children? Young impressionable people who are still learning who they are and how they fit in the world? It's very worrying. Especially as there is a whole subset of extremely homphobic people out there for whom transitioning has become the new conversion therapy, with budding teenage lesbians being convinced through transactivism that they are really a boy in a girl's body despite never having grown up with any kind of unease about their gender identity until the question of sexual attraction came up.


Transgender people deserve rights and protections from discrimination just like everyone else but just like everyone else their right to live the way they choose cannot come at the expense of other people and their rights. And in the case of self-ID and being able to use women only spaces while still male-bodied, the rights of transgender people seem to be coming at the expense of women. I would never have got drawn into all of this if I hadn't seen such blanket acceptance of the idea of Graham Linehan being transphobic and "going off the deep end" as it were without any real analysis of the issues he was raising. Lots of people, like my husband, seemed to have picked up the idea Linehan had "lost it" almost as if by osmosis. Just read the allegation somewhere on social media and accepted it. Being such a lifelong fan, though, I needed proof, needed to see for myself and the more I've looked into it the more worried I've become. I just don't think anyone under the age of 25, who is still growing and maturing as a person, should be taking life changing hormone therapy, it's just wrong. We know so little of the effects and organisations like Mermaids that appear to condone it, that approach every questioning child as an automatic candidate, without the years of therapy that had previously been considered best practice, feel dangerous to me. I'm wondering what kind of society we are becoming that we are willing to allow these concepts to become the accepted norm with no debate over the ethics or consequences for wider society in such haste. We really shouldn't hurry into making self-ID law, but take the time to make sure we get it right.
It involves experimental drugs that have permanent effects, such as infertility.
Mermaids do not prescribe any medication. They are purely a counselling and advice service.
I meant changing gender involves taking such drugs. So if Mermaids is supportive of children changing gender they are supportive of hormone therapy (at least, it seems this is likely to be the case, as the charity was started by parents of transitioning children, so one assumes they are more supportive than not). And my objection isn't to their role in supporting families who are already involved with transgender issues. My query is around their qualifications to go into schools and talk about trangender issues to children who have not been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. I think this is a reaonable question.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
PorFavor
Prime Minister
Posts: 15167
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:18 pm

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by PorFavor »

refitman wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Jennie Formby's letter to Tom Watson - ouch.
Here's the letter: " onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
[youtube]fxBOlLFz6NU[/youtube]
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Laura accepts racism in the Tory party but only as means of feigned neutrality and emphasise Labour's "increased scale"
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

IMHO
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

And I'm of the most resistant to "media bias"
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

All journalists are biased,not naive but in this incident particularly apparent
HindleA
Prime Minister
Posts: 27400
Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
Location: Three quarters way to hell

Re: Friday 1st March 2019

Post by HindleA »

Disdain for the Tory party clarification,as a Tory is being helpful to Leeds at the moment
Locked