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- Comment on Lib Dems vote to scrap EHRC trans guidance as party brands it 'discriminatory and unworkable' 6 days ago:
In case you missed it, the article’s not about the government but about the Lib Dem party’s internal conference. The Lib Dems do indeed seem sympathetic but lack the power to change anything at the moment.
The Labour government, as you say, could change the legislation, so the fact that they haven’t says quite a lot about how sympathetic they really are (i.e. very little).
- Comment on Baroness Cass wants to push age for starting transitioning to 25 (NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics) 1 week ago:
I’d trust what the NHS has to think about it over some random on lemmy
Agreed that you shouldn’t trust random Lemmy comments. But the NHS on this issue is very driven by politics, rather than actual evidence of what provides the best outcomes for people. Here’s a well referenced analysis from a few years ago. And for example, the Dutch Health Council has a very different position than the NHS - I mention that mostly to illustrate that any given national health organisation isn’t inherently right, but I do also believe the Dutch one follows the scientific evidence more closely.
So no, nobody should be excluded from this discussion.
I get where you’re coming from but I fear that by making a point about “regret”, you’ve (perhaps unwittingly) contributed to scaremongering in contradiction to the available evidence (which points to that being only a tiny fraction of trans people). I don’t think it’s unfair to ask you to check your facts before posting and/or acknowledge a correction.
… make a life altering and irreversible decision …
Not providing healthcare is also a life altering and irreversible decision. As others have commented here, the later in life treatment is started, the more irreversible dysphoric changes will happen to that person’s body in the meantime, with generally poorer mental health outcomes. In particular, puberty blockers’ function is to pause those irreversible changes, not to cause changes.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad we have the BBC and I follow its news, but it has its problems and deserves criticism on some fronts.
Not an exhaustive list by any means but it’s very prone to legitimising harmful attitudes by false equivalence, and it’s very TERFy/transphobic.
- Comment on MP groped breasts of two women, trial hears 2 months ago:
Your take doesn’t really fit with the timeline described in the article. If the police hadn’t screwed up, it would have come out before he became MP (and presumably he wouldn’t have).
- Comment on Train driver dies and 89 people injured after two trains collide near Bedford 2 months ago:
Here’s the initial statement from the RAIB gov.uk/…/collision-between-two-passenger-trains-n… - pirc_lover had it about right
One train developed a fault which caused it to stop. The second one, as seen on its dashcam, drove through a red signal (which it should have stopped at) and into the back of the first. They are still investigating why the second one didn’t stop at the signal and whether that might include brake failure, safety system failure, driver error, and/or any other factors.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Is that not the profile picture of whoever’s post you were trying to view?
- Comment on Nearly 500 seriously injured in e-scooter collisions in Great Britain last year 3 months ago:
Completely agree, treat them broadly like e-bikes. Limited speed and use only on roads and bike paths, not footpaths.
That said, I see a lot of people riding e-bikes which don’t comply with the existing e-bike speed limits, so perhaps better enforcement is needed as well. There’s definitely a place for these faster e-bikes, but they’re basically e-mopeds and should act like it (roads only, driving licence, number plate, MOT, insurance etc.).
- Comment on Birmingham Crowned The Least Walkable City In The UK 6 months ago:
A very tourist centric metric when day-to-day living and commuting is much more relevant