To avoid upsetting
How exactly are we defining “discrimination” here?
Hospital managers have been warned they could be guilty of discrimination if they put transwomen in single rooms to avoid upsetting patients in female-only wards.
That’s bad stupid wording, that insinuates women are neurotic whiny bitches for not wanting men in women-only wards. Hospital managers have been warned they could be guilty of discrimination if they put men who claim to be trans in single rooms to avoid forcing them on women at the expense of the women’s safety, privacy, and comfort.
Also “have been warned” is pointlessly obscure. Why not say who did the “warning” in the lede?
Guidance for Scotland’s biggest health board also says that any woman who complains about a transwoman sharing their ward should be advised that “the ward is indeed female-only and that there are no men present”.
It comes as ministers have asked health boards around the country to explain how they accommodate trans patients, with some campaigners concerned that the trans-rights agenda could put the safety of women in female-only spaces at risk.
More crappy wording. There’s no “could” about it: of course the “agenda” to force men on women in women-only wards will put the women’s safety at risk.
The campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) described the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde guidance as “gaslighting and insulting”.
None of your silly journalistic circumlocution for them.
A spokeswoman said: “No ill and vulnerable woman wants to wake up from an operation to find a bloke staring at her from the next bed. If the NHS can’t tell the difference between a male body and a female body then it really is in dire straits.”
Sadly, we know the NHS can tell the difference, and is choosing to ignore it for the sake of a trendy but stupid ideology.
But has it ever been conclusively determined that “gender” is a real thing? If not, then “trans” is based on (at most) “gender dysphoria” (which would be more accurately termed “body dysphoria” or “sex dysphoria”) which is a mental problem wherein the sufferer hates the sex of their body and thinks they’d have been happier with a body of the opposite sex.
And having genuine “dysphoria” in no way, shape, or form, makes one a member of the opposite sex.
And thinking about transpersons this way eliminates all this nonsense about “balancing” the rights of transpeople with the sex-based rights of women.
[I’ll add that thinking about “transgenderism” this way also helps clear up the problem of teenagers screaming that they’ll “just die” if their gender delusions aren’t validated in the same way that other teenagers say they just can’t live without their pimply boyfriend or girlfriend, or if they can’t go to that party that EVERYONE else is going to Friday, or if they can’t see their favourite band in concert.]
Me, that’s so true. I also think about the surveys of teenagers that show they “can’t live” without their phone. Sure they can. They might actually be unhappier, true, but they can live. And who knows? They might be happier, because they could focus on relationships instead of likes, conversations instead of posts, and meals instead of Instagram photos.
Just like teenagers would be happier if they didn’t have to go through puberty, because frankly, puberty is a traumatic time. But once you get past it, you learn to live with whatever or whoever you are, or you go into therapy so you can learn to live with whatever or whoever you are.
That may seem too simple, since some people never learn to live with it, and end up committing suicide. Some people live with it but are miserable. Yes, that’s true. I’ve been there (both, though I was obviously never successful at suicide). But there doesn’t seem to be a lot of actual, solid evidence that transing makes young people happier. It just gives them the “right” to scream at anyone who doesn’t “validate” them, and if who you really are is someone who likes screaming at and insulting people, particularly women, you don’t have to mutilate your body to do that.