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watt price tully Scorpio



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:09 am
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<Moderator note: This has been split off from the "transgender athletes" thread, which was becoming a bit of a catch-all for any and all issues related to transgender people. Please keep posts in that thread to sport-oriented issues and use this one for other discussions relating to transgender identity and related topics.>

I'm not too sure how I feel about the issue of transgendered athletes.

I deal regularly in my work with troubled transgendered people.

I really have to be conscious of language lest I offend someone. The words "they & them" are used instead of personal pronouns. One day I was feeling particularly proud of myself as I had spent considerable time assisting a couple one of who was a trangendered person. I stuck to the use of non personal pronouns religiously throughout. However, I almost undid all the good work when right at the end I said and I'll take him to the.....when adressing the partner Very Happy Embarassed They laughed!!

There's still something NQR about it in my mind (transgendered athletes) especially with reference to being an athlete of one gender on minute then an athelete for a different gender the next. If I was a woman not via transgender and an aspiring athlete I would by mighty pissed off if my opportunuty was taken as TP was indicating earlier.

Germaine Greer once said basically that lopping off your penis does not in itself (axiomatically) make you a woman. I don't necessarily agree or disgree (ouch the fence) but understand her reasoning for this viewpoint.
I know David in particular is a fan of both Germaine Greer & Sheilagh Jefferies when it comes to Transgender issues Razz

But by golly bi jingo by jeeves did she cop it to a histrionic extent by the pro- tran lobby (not the vietnamese either)

".....(Greer) has tried to defend her trans views before, telling Newsnight last year: Apparently people have decided that because I dont think that post-operative transgender men are women, Im not to be allowed to talk. Im not saying that people should not be allowed to go through that procedure, what Im saying is it doesnt make them a woman.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/germaine-greer-defends-her-transgender-views-and-starts-another/

Strange bedfellows: Pa Marmo & Germiane Greer Wink who'd a thunk

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:21 am
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I think Greer's views on the matter are generally seen as terribly outdated now, and even those who defended her right to free speech (as I did) tended to see them as offensive and misguided. Of course you're entitled to agree with her (or sit on the fence Wink) but to my mind she seems to take an unnecessarily fundamentalist approach to deciding what a 'real' woman is, particularly given the core feminist view (to which she surely at least somewhat subscribes) that gender is constructed.

Anyway, perhaps even she wouldn't oppose trans women being allowed to play the sport of their choice. Ultimately it's all about inclusion vs exclusion I think.

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I deal regularly in my work with troubled transgendered people.

Sounds like a tough gig.

I can think of few things more emotionally or mentally challenging than to conclude that you're trapped in the wrong body.
It must be hell both for the individual concerned and those close to them.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:12 am
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I deal regularly in my work with troubled transgendered people.

Sounds like a tough gig.

I can think of few things more emotionally or mentally challenging than to conclude that you're trapped in the wrong body.
It must be hell both for the individual concerned and those close to them.


I don't deal with their trangender issues. I merely assess mental state & risk and determine disposition: what next for the person being assessed?:

1. home no assistance,
2. home GP,
3. home usual supports,
4. home private psychologist etc,
5. home and crisis mental health,
6. admit voluntarly
7. admit as a "compulsory person" that is against their will.
7. admit medical if medical issues that warrant an admission then refer to general medical mental health otherwise known as "consultation liaison mental health"

after that I get on with the next assessment. So no big isues so to speak regarding transgender.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:18 pm
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I deal regularly in my work with troubled transgendered people.

Sounds like a tough gig.

I can think of few things more emotionally or mentally challenging than to conclude that you're trapped in the wrong body.
It must be hell both for the individual concerned and those close to them.


On the contrary, my personal experience of interacting with the half-dozen or so transgender people I've known (who have made the transition) has been anything but 'hell'. They're just people indeed, some seem to have their shit together far more than most of the non-trans people I know.

That's not to diminish the psychological challenges involved, particularly early in life. But this is where stuff like inclusion and acceptance are so important: most of the negative mental health consequences can probably be traced directly back to stigma and lack of acceptance from family, friends and society as a whole. It doesn't have to be that way.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:10 pm
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thesoretoothsayer wrote:
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I deal regularly in my work with troubled transgendered people.

Sounds like a tough gig.

I can think of few things more emotionally or mentally challenging than to conclude that you're trapped in the wrong body.
It must be hell both for the individual concerned and those close to them.


On the contrary, my personal experience of interacting with the half-dozen or so transgender people I've known (who have made the transition) has been anything but 'hell'. They're just people indeed, some seem to have their shit together far more than most of the non-trans people I know.



That may say a lot about your circle of friends. Razz

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 7:39 pm
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watt price tully wrote:
I'm not too sure how I feel about the issue of transgendered athletes.

I deal regularly in my work with troubled transgendered people.

I really have to be conscious of language lest I offend someone. The words "they & them" are used instead of personal pronouns. One day I was feeling particularly proud of myself as I had spent considerable time assisting a couple one of who was a trangendered person. I stuck to the use of non personal pronouns religiously throughout. However, I almost undid all the good work when right at the end I said and I'll take him to the.....when adressing the partner Very Happy Embarassed They laughed!!

There's still something NQR about it in my mind (transgendered athletes) especially with reference to being an athlete of one gender on minute then an athelete for a different gender the next. If I was a woman not via transgender and an aspiring athlete I would by mighty pissed off if my opportunuty was taken as TP was indicating earlier.

Germaine Greer once said basically that lopping off your penis does not in itself (axiomatically) make you a woman. I don't necessarily agree or disgree (ouch the fence) but understand her reasoning for this viewpoint.
I know David in particular is a fan of both Germaine Greer & Sheilagh Jefferies when it comes to Transgender issues Razz

But by golly bi jingo by jeeves did she cop it to a histrionic extent by the pro- tran lobby (not the vietnamese either)

".....(Greer) has tried to defend her trans views before, telling Newsnight last year: Apparently people have decided that because I dont think that post-operative transgender men are women, Im not to be allowed to talk. Im not saying that people should not be allowed to go through that procedure, what Im saying is it doesnt make them a woman.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/germaine-greer-defends-her-transgender-views-and-starts-another/

Strange bedfellows: Pa Marmo & Germiane Greer Wink who'd a thunk


Thanks for proving you don't have to be transphobic to have concerns. Wink

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 2:29 pm
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Even if trans female athletes wanted to compete in men's competitions (and it's obvious why they wouldn't want to, as it would be a complete negation of their identity), it's not clear that they would be permitted to under the rules of the sport, given that they are legally female. And, in any case, that would only satisfy the 'fairness' brigade half of the time: we've already seen complaints in this thread about trans male athletes (on hormone replacement therapy) competing in female competition. As I said, some people won't be happy until transgender people retreat to a ghetto and/or disappear from public life altogether. Thankfully, sporting code administrators tend to be a little more forward-thinking.


So I assume you support an offender who identifies as a woman being sent to a woman's prison?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 4:55 pm
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Even if trans female athletes wanted to compete in men's competitions (and it's obvious why they wouldn't want to, as it would be a complete negation of their identity), it's not clear that they would be permitted to under the rules of the sport, given that they are legally female. And, in any case, that would only satisfy the 'fairness' brigade half of the time: we've already seen complaints in this thread about trans male athletes (on hormone replacement therapy) competing in female competition. As I said, some people won't be happy until transgender people retreat to a ghetto and/or disappear from public life altogether. Thankfully, sporting code administrators tend to be a little more forward-thinking.

thats bullshit David, no one is saying that, not one person has said anything derogatory here.


Whether or not anyone here openly thinks that, it is the logical conclusion of their arguments effectively, pushing transgender sportspeople into a convenient corner where they don't have to bother anyone with their presence. Otherwise, I think this is a general view that many people hold, yes.

thesoretoothsayer wrote:
So I assume you support an offender who identifies as a woman being sent to a woman's prison?


Yes, that seems reasonable. And I guess you're itching to tell me why I shouldn't...

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:45 pm
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Maybe I will throw this into the mix.....

https://nypost.com/2018/07/30/man-legally-changes-gender-to-get-cheaper-car-insurance-report/

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 6:43 pm
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thesoretoothsayer wrote:
So I assume you support an offender who identifies as a woman being sent to a woman's prison?

This is a big issue in Thailand ,Alot of the transexexuals end up in the bar game and get on drugs and rob tourists. When they get caught they are sent to a male prison andshare a cell with up to 20 others with no privacy, Tv, internet . You need not guess what goes for entertainment. They are only know looking st segregating them because prison rape seems to fall under "You do the crime you do the crime". The latest is they will ban cigarettes in Jails as well. Could well be riots.

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No. Just trying to establish to what extent you privilege trans ideology over woman's rights.
What if the offender who identifies as a woman still has dangly bits and has past rape (of women) convictions?


As nearly any contemporary feminist will tell you, trans womens rights are an important subset of womens rights. And so there are quite legitimate concerns that, as RR colourfully describes above, transgender women will themselves be at risk in male prisons.

The question of whether a trans female rapist should be in a womens prison is a classic wedge issue one that would be so rare as to easily be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, but one that a lot of hay can nonetheless be made out of by bigoted scaremongers (as it has been by right-wing radical feminist groups in the UK). Ive read news reports from Britain in which this very issue has been discussed, and the suggestion from transgender lobbying groups has been that such cases should be assessed carefully by prison authorities and that particularly dangerous individuals should, as an exception, not be permitted into womens prisons.

Personally, rather than focusing on that sensational and rare issue, Id rather address and resolve broader issues of abuse in prison and how violent individuals are allowed to terrorise fellow inmates, male or female; theres no reason why our trans female rapist cant be treated the same as a garden variety same-sex rapist in a male prison (whether that be solitary confinement, 24/7 guards or whatever). Basically, rather than concocting prurient horror stories about female impersonators in womens prisons, Id rather look at better functional protections for inmates in general. And ultimately, I dont consider male prison rape (which none of the people raising this issue seem to give a shit about) a lower priority here. We need to throw out the special pleading and actually deal with these issues seriously.

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A couple of quick points.

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right-wing radical feminist groups..

"right-wing" actually means something. Same as "nazi" and "fascist". They don't just mean someone I disagree with. Calling a radical lesbian feminist right-wing is quite a leap.

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As nearly any contemporary feminist will tell you...

Incorrect. It seems a growing number of feminists are speaking up against trans ideology. Are you excluding their voices? Does their truth mean nothing to you?
https://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/04/22/oppression-olympics-women-always-lose/

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Ive read news reports from Britain in which this very issue has been discussed, and the suggestion from transgender lobbying groups has been that such cases should be assessed carefully by prison authorities and that particularly dangerous individuals should, as an exception, not be permitted into womens prisons.
But why would you exclude someone who identifies as a women from women's prison under any circumstances? Doesn't that tacitly state that they are not in fact "proper" women? Isn't that transphobic?
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right-wing radical feminist groups..

"right-wing" actually means something. Same as "nazi" and "fascist". They don't just mean someone I disagree with. Calling a radical lesbian feminist right-wing is quite a leap.


"Nazi" and "fascist" do not mean the same thing, though they are fairly similar. A pretty reasonable first approximation would be to say that all Nazis are fascists, but not all fascists are Nazis. All fascists (and thus all Nazis) are right-wing, but not all right-wingers are fascists.

There is a second distinction, albeit an imprecise one. While both fascists and Nazis are extreme right wingers, fascists tend to come from within, often high up within, society's most conservative institutions (churches, banks, aristocratic families, army and navy, law and law enforcement), while Nazis tend to come from outside the leadership of those institutions, or from subordinate positions within them, and often want to tear the institutions down and rebuild them into a new image.

Think of the difference between Vice-President Mike Pence (a fascist type) and Donald Trump (essentially a Nazi).

A Fascist (capital "F") is a member of Italy's ruling party of the 1930s. A fascist (lower-case "f") could be a Fascist (albeit a very old one now), but is more likely a member of, supporter of, or fellow traveller with any of the many ultra-right-wing parties around the world. (Is it possible to be ultra-right-wing and not a fascist? Probably yes, but I'd have to think about that.)

Probably we should have a term "nazi" (lower-case "n") to denote Nazi-like people who don't live in Hitler's Germany-Austria byt my spell-checker at least doesn't recognise the term uncapitalised. Let's use it anyway.

I cannot think of any feminist nazis or fascists, not off the top of my head, but there is no logical reason you couldn't have such a thing. OK, real feminism is about fairness and equality, both foreign concepts to fascism and nazism, but modern third wave feminism has morphed into an ideology of inequality and revenge (classic Nazi themes), so the parallel is there. Indeed, anti-egalitarian Nazism emerged out of the by-definition egalitarian communist movement, so there is a second parallel.

Here in Australia, if you want to be accurate to type, you shouldn't call the likes of Tony Abbott and Eric Abetz and Senator Bestiality "nazis" as they are strong supporters of conservative memes and institutions and tend to be only accidental racists; "fascists" is a better-suited term. For nazi-like Australians, look to the likes of Dutton and Hanson.

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