These paintings are fascinatingly ugly Even in comparison with his mid children's bible illustrations, which are bland and uninspired but not aesthetically hideous in the same way
The stress of that isn't going to make anyone a better parent. Some of these "alienation" arguments sound like the kids just don't like a parent because they objectively suck, then that gets treated as the other parent sinisterly turning the kids against them.
You don't actually need to disclose most stis and even if you have transmissible hiv and don't disclose it's reckless transmission not rape. The cps guidance unfortunately places an active duty on trans people to disclose and says it's sexual assault if we don't
Nope, the only thing it's illegal to deceive about in the UK is birth sex. Pretending to be a celebrity, lying about having had a vasectomy, all fine. It's birth sex and pretending to be someone's partner that's illegal and nothing else.
Apparently deception as to identity is actually fine, unless you're pretending to be a specific person personally known to the victim (eg. their partner). Literally a specific "deception as to sex" rule for trans people only
Trans men have been prosecuted for using a prosthetic without disclosure, but I think a cis man with ED who did the same would not be breaking the law? Which seems very uneven. It's disturbing how much the victim's homophobia/transphobia/misogyny is treated as a legitimate harm in this context.
And deciding (contrary to case law) that either legal or certificated sex determines access to spaces/services and pregnancy protections, and then relying on that assumption in their reasoning.
Ah okay that tracks, the rules here are bizarre and complicated Like deception re impersonation being illegal only if you personally know the person they're pretending to be
Excellent critiques of fws by legal people, feeling genuinely hearted to see so many different people willing to put their name to critiques of the ruling journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
hahaha “there is something quite surprising, and quite jarring, about the way in which this judicial language seeks to diminish the significance of a legal document”
Hahaha yeah no transphobic feminism includes no trans people of any kind. It's a feminism of women who consider themselves "normal" and see "rights" as a thing that can be withdrawn from the "abnormal" to teach us a lesson. Sometimes they claim to support us but it's always a lie.
Tendancy to overplay the suicide evidence is an unfortunate consequence of arguing with cis parents who would rather have a miserable "cis" child than a happy trans one, as long as the kid doesn't actually die
Someone trying to argue that a child with bad mental health, who feels suicidal and attempts suicide, is not at higher risk of suicide than a child with good mental health who isn't suicidal shouldn't be taken seriously. And being distressed to the point of attempting suicide is a harm on its own.
Yeah there's good evidence that it improves mental health in general, improves self reported suicidal feelings, and even reduces attempts. But completed suicide is thankfully rare enough it's hard to measure on its own.
Attempts at an RCT collapsed because parents refused to have their kids in the control group, as it would mean having their kids go through puberty alarmingly early. So it's in a pretty similar place to the base for trans kids
