https://thecritic.co.uk/a-failure-of-safeguarding/
But it isn’t just the harm being done to “transitioning” children that should cause alarm. When schools allow a child to change their name and pronouns, other children in the school are pressured into accepting this new identity. I’m willing to bet that most adolescents know that humans can’t change sex, so in being forced to collude with the transition of a peer they are being pressured — every time they speak to or about their “trans” classmate — to speak a lie. When people are compelled by those in authority to repeat untruths or remain silent when lies are spoken, they lose their sense of self-worth and ability to resist coercion; it is unthinkable that this should be happening to children in a democracy.
It’s ok to be bisexual, people!
Inadvertent, I genuinely think.
Tbf, this has been the case ever since the first loyalty card scheme (Target, maybe?) started outing teen girls by sending them vouchers for diapers before they’d told their parents….
Safe travels, and I hope you have a good visit. We’ll miss you!
Ms Prentis, has warned that any restrictions on social transitioning could infringe the Equality Act, which lists gender reassignment as a “protected characteristic”.
No it bloody couldn’t. Under-18s can’t get a GRC, so can’t go through “gender reassignment”.
Aye.
Aye.
Twitter change. About a month ago, maybe?
There is no other side in Eritrea. It’s a brutal dictatorship where people are conscripted and forced to work for decades on the ruling class’s farms.
(Enjoying the book, btw. Not dramatically too hippyish, although talk of plant vibrations right at the start nearly had m giving up on it. She’s laughably wrong about a few things — ravens in Brixton my arse — and a big whiny, but an entertaining easy read: thank you!)
I have been known to say “I’m the one with waist length hair the same colour as Dog” when meeting internet friends for the first time.
Fighting in Israel between two groups of Eritrean refugees, the groups being pro- and anti- the Eritrean government.
Now, I can’t personally conceive of being pro that regime, but if you are then why are you living as a refugee in a different country?
Not too bad, then.
I’m very pleased to report that Dog Treat Lady’s cyst is looking miles better: the swelling’s gone, it’s dull red in a “healing nicely” way rather than angry-looking, and it’s barely oozing.
She’s confidently saying it’s fine and she won’t need surgery, and I hope the nurse agrees when she goes back to have it looked at in a few days.
If he got through to a human at HRMC in under forty minutes, he should have been suspicious right away.
Apparently they’re trying to get a letter writing campaign going to have the duty changed. I can’t see it taking off if it’s twice as expensive!
