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[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

OP here - I'll just respond here:

1) This is not about politics: We fall into the gender lobby's trap when we allow basic human and civil rights for women to be positioned as a political issue.

Beyond that, the legal, semantic, scientific, etc., erasure of biological sex is also a non-partisan issue that affects every person on Earth, across the political spectrum.

In the US and elsewhere, Covid was made into a political issue, and look at the results.

2) I am probably considerably older than most of you. I fought for the US Equal Rights Amendment, which didn't pass because women were SHAMED into shutting up.

I will not shut up.

3) IRL, I am very polite. I seem irate when I describe these incidences because on s/gendercritical I am among like-minded people so let my anger out.

I don't corner anyone: rather I am at the doctor's mercy.

And instead of talking about vacation plans or the weather, which they've heard from every patient, I am giving them information that they, AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, need to know.

BTW: the gynecologist's office had WOKE signs all over it, so they are shoving their politics (real politics, not the non-political issues of women and childrens' mental, physical and emotional health) down patients' throats without considering that we might be offended.

4) I'm glad that there are women like me willing to not STFU, because, again, I have seen the results of women "being kind" - we are witnessing them now.

You know what "no option" is? No option is when a semi-conscious rape survivor is forced to share a hospital room with a biological male who gets off on her trauma. That's no option.

I've been Taking A Stand for years now, mostly on the phone, and I can say with confidence that I have Peak Transed hundreds of people, across the political spectrum, simply by telling them the truth.

Again, I am so incredibly glad that, for whatever reason - possibly because I have traveled a lot for an American, and thus seen the truly horrific conditions women are forced to endure in many countries - I am not scared to be a Karen, and that other women aren't scared to be Karens too.

If J. Karen Rowling hadn't spoken up, where would the women of the UK be now?

This really seems like "be kind" GC version... but I am a very strong believer that people should only do what they feel comfortable with, so you do you. Be kind.

And I'll do me. Be that old nag who forces the sleeping to wake up, because we are running out of time to be kind.

[–]one1won 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well said! Women globally are having the genderist terminology and strictures sprung on us. Speaking up is not “not being nice”. And, doctors who don’t like the profession leave it - just like in any other field.

[–]BEB[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The US just had a president who said whatever came into his mind, no matter how offensive or outrageous (and I think Boris Johnson in the UK also fits that mold). And yet he was president.

But when a woman speaks out, clearly and unapologetically, about issues that if left to go the way they are going will destroy our rights, our dignity, privacy, safety and sports, we are told we should couch the way we say things in a nicer way.

Look at the woman who spoke up, loudly, bravely and clearly, at Wi Spa in LA - her voice has gone around the world and revealed that the Trans Emperor Has No Clothes . Well done, Wi Spa woman! - any woman who feels comfortable doing so should follow her lead.

[–]TheOnyxGoddess 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then I realize that this was some kind of awkward way for the doctor to attempt to figure out what biological sex her new patient is before the appointment, and / or any other kind of gender fuckery her new patient has going on - like if your name is Susan but you were born male.

I told a medical receptionist I'm female to try to avoid the question before he asked me "are you female, male, non-binary" or some crap like because I was a new patient last year. He ignored me and still asked me. Goddamnit. This was in Australia. I'm glad I'm never going back to that clinic, I was there to ask for a COVID test but refused to perform one on me as testing my housemate who I live with was enough. If I had that form (which they had to fill out for the patient for COVID reasons), I would have scribbled out that third option.

Edit: To clarify, I heard him ask the same question to a housemate.