In today’s polarised world, discussing politics or social views with friends and family can feel like walking through a minefield. Emotions run high, opinions clash, and what starts as a casual chat can quickly spiral into a heated argument. But…
Parents of course do not speak with one voice. Many may be comfortable with or support a social justice vision of schooling, and polling indicates that on some of the most contested issues there is a sizeable minority which has…
A Labour MP brought up the Netflix series “Adolescence” and asked Keir Starmer if he will support the creators calls to show it in schools to counter “toxic misogyny early” Starmer replied: “Yes, and at home we are watching Adolescence…
MPs vote next week on a law that could force pubs, stadiums, and universities to police ‘offensive’ conversations—or risk being sued. The Opposition has tabled an amendment to scrap it. Use the Free Speech Union campaign tool to email your…
In a time when the internet is so readily accessible and children have access. Why are schools pushing porn as “just something people do” and pushing gender ideology, alongside “sex positivity”! My statements were statements of fact. Yet this garnered…
The INTENTIONAL GROWTH of the Gender Identity business from the 1960’s to the the 1980’s — Charing Cross Hospital Gender Identity Clinic & Harry Benjamin & creating the WPATH monste
I fully support the idea of a National Health Service….. here is some history of how it came to be and where we are now:
The Emergency Hospital Service (later Emergency Medical Service) was established at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, giving central government a right of direction over voluntary and municipal hospitals. The service was a loose alliance of separate organisations, working together to deal with a national emergency, but paved the way for separate and competing institutions to come together as part of the National Health Service.
The first F-M sex-change operation in a transsexual patient, i.e. the construction of a penis (so-called phalloplasty), allegedly took place in the Netherlands in Arnhem in 1959–1960. The first university-based gender clinics operated in the United States from the early 1960s to approximately 1980. During this two-decade period, doctors and researchers would attempt to find a cause and a psychiatric treatment (i.e., a cure) for transsexuality.
They would ultimately fail in this search for an aetiology/etiologic cause and would move toward surgical and hormonal treatments….
#Disclaimer I’m 43 and married so this comes from a place of historic dating & inquisitiveness around what is acceptable, or do we want to be acceptable in modern dating etiquette (behaviours or expectations)
READ ON MEDIUM HERE OR BELOW: Body integrity dysphoria (BID, also referred to as body integrity identity disorder, amputee identity disorder and xenomelia, formerly called apotemnophilia) REFERENCES: Mia @_CryMiaRiver Ottawa, Ontario & Jen @JenKTeach England, UK
