The Gender Recognition Act was established to enable a legal fiction to accommodate transsexual people who had undergone surgery --to give them a right to privacy from revealing their true sex when it is not relevant.
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Replying to @MForstater @AmnestyUK and
Does the Act actually require surgery? I would have thought that as a condition would be an automatic breach of human rights... Sex and gender are not the same.
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Replying to @amowhelo @AmnestyUK and
No it doesn't . But that was the original thinking https://fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-rights-get-part-2-changing-legal-sex-status/ … Sex and gender are different, and yet gender is allowed to change sex
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Replying to @MForstater @AmnestyUK and
So 'surgically turning kids straight' isn't actually an accurate statement...
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Replying to @amowhelo @AmnestyUK and
Telling same sex attracted young women that they can be heterosexual men, and encouraging them to have their breasts and uteruses removed to deal with their feelings of body hatred. What would you call that?
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Replying to @MForstater @AmnestyUK and
I would call that a blatent misrepresentation of the issue...
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Replying to @MForstater @AmnestyUK and
Providing genuine support services to allow self identified trans people, including children, explore their identity and inform them of their options (including surgical options) surely is the best approach both medically and psychologically. Your statement and question...
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Replying to @amowhelo @AmnestyUK and
Ensuring that children who are experiencing mental distress get support to explore what is causing it and how it might be addressed is surely a better place to start. Children self diagnosing as transsexual is a new, rapidly growing and little understood phenomena.
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Replying to @MForstater @amowhelo and
This is exactly what seeking support via GIDS is doing. Kids are psychologically assessed, offered therapy &, if diagnosed, only then is support with puberty blockers considered. This allows them to continue exploring without body changes so they can make decisions later.
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I've heard enough credible reports from clinicians to the contrary to be concerned that's not the casehttps://www.crowdjustice.com/case/protect-children/ …
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Replying to @MForstater @Carriedenne1 and
We’re in Scotland and we were told that there would be 3-6 assessment sessions (Glasgow gender clinic). How on earth is 3-6 sessions enough to establish anything?
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Replying to @rodgmum @MForstater and
It is not enough. This surely is just bad practice.
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