Where'd the wimmenz go?
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@george-k said in Where'd the wimmenz go?:
"Birthing people?"
Really?
Used as a verb, I would agree with it. Women birth people. Women are birthing people.
Ayup, that use works, but I realize that's not what was intended at all.@brenda said in Where'd the wimmenz go?:
I realize that's not what was intended at all.
Their "explanation."
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@brenda said in Where'd the wimmenz go?:
I realize that's not what was intended at all.
Their "explanation."
@george-k said in Where'd the wimmenz go?:
@brenda said in Where'd the wimmenz go?:
I realize that's not what was intended at all.
Their "explanation."
I'd pay good money to see them drag a baby out of a guy's penis.
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"Birthing people" erases and dehumanizes women. Sad. I am against the erasure and dehumanization of women. If being against erasing and dehumanizing women is wrong, then darn it, I don't want to be right.
Sorry to get so political. I don't mean to offend those who are in favor of erasing and dehumanizing women. It is just a core belief of mine that women should not be erased and dehumanized.
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"The webinar panelists used the term "birthing person" to include those who identify as non-binary or transgender because not all who give birth identify as "women" or "girls."
I've about had it up to here with this stupid shit.
And another thing: It's not that I specifically don't care about these farflung (to my life) issues; it's that I am sick and tired of having them -- and 200 others -- flung into my face every five minutes.
(No reflection on you, George; just generally.)
Ain't my circus, ain't my clowns. I'm obliged to care about the people in my village. I can sympathize with the people in yours, but I'm not going to be made to feel guilty about their suffering.
And I sure as hell ain't gonna cry crocodile tears over them one minute and forget about the issue entirely the next. I mean, who am I kidding???
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Judge orders Wisconsin to provide inmate with long-sought gender confirmation surgery
A federal judge has ordered the state to provide long-sought gender confirmation surgery to a transgender female inmate, which would make her the first in Wisconsin to have the procedure while in state custody.
"The rights of transgender persons and sex reassignment surgery remain politically controversial, even outside the prison context," wrote U.S. District Judge James Peterson.
"And some members of the public are outraged at any effort to improve the health and well being of inmates," he wrote. "But the true public interest lies in alleviating needless suffering by those who are dependent on the government for their care."
Peterson's order followed a three-day bench trial in March in the case of Nicole Campbell. Also known as Mark Campbell, who in 2007 began serving a 34-year-sentence for sexual assault of a child.
The Department of Corrections agrees that Campbell, 49, suffers from gender dysphoria, and has made some accommodations: she has received hormone treatment, counseling and is allowed to wear some women's clothing at Racine Correctional Institute, a men's prison.
But it had denied her reassignment surgery, which she first sought in 2013. Not everyone with gender dysphoria wants or needs surgery for treatment, or meets the strict medical requirements to be recommended for surgery.
Peterson found that Campbell has the most severe form of gender dysphoria, in which the presence of male genitalia on her body causes particularly severe anguish.
He noted that it could take a year to schedule an appointment with the one qualified surgeon in the state, and suggested DOC could move Campbell to the main women's prison in the meantime.
The DOC took the position that Campbell met all the criteria for gender confirmation surgery except having practiced living as a woman in "real life," which it said was impossible while residing in a men's prison.
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Judge orders Wisconsin to provide inmate with long-sought gender confirmation surgery
A federal judge has ordered the state to provide long-sought gender confirmation surgery to a transgender female inmate, which would make her the first in Wisconsin to have the procedure while in state custody.
"The rights of transgender persons and sex reassignment surgery remain politically controversial, even outside the prison context," wrote U.S. District Judge James Peterson.
"And some members of the public are outraged at any effort to improve the health and well being of inmates," he wrote. "But the true public interest lies in alleviating needless suffering by those who are dependent on the government for their care."
Peterson's order followed a three-day bench trial in March in the case of Nicole Campbell. Also known as Mark Campbell, who in 2007 began serving a 34-year-sentence for sexual assault of a child.
The Department of Corrections agrees that Campbell, 49, suffers from gender dysphoria, and has made some accommodations: she has received hormone treatment, counseling and is allowed to wear some women's clothing at Racine Correctional Institute, a men's prison.
But it had denied her reassignment surgery, which she first sought in 2013. Not everyone with gender dysphoria wants or needs surgery for treatment, or meets the strict medical requirements to be recommended for surgery.
Peterson found that Campbell has the most severe form of gender dysphoria, in which the presence of male genitalia on her body causes particularly severe anguish.
He noted that it could take a year to schedule an appointment with the one qualified surgeon in the state, and suggested DOC could move Campbell to the main women's prison in the meantime.
The DOC took the position that Campbell met all the criteria for gender confirmation surgery except having practiced living as a woman in "real life," which it said was impossible while residing in a men's prison.
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If only there was a word that could be used to encompass everybody with a vagina...
