Male Labour MP Alex Sobel has said the NHS should stop using “gendered vocabulary” when treating pregnant women, adding that cutting off a woman’s breasts “drastically improves well-being and saves lives”. The Telegraph has more.
Alex Sobel, Leeds Central and Headingley MP, said doctors should use gender-neutral language when referring to expectant parents to include transgender men [i.e., women who identify as men].
Speaking during a debate on International Men’s Day, he said failing to ask a transgender man if there was a possibility [she] could be pregnant before hospital treatment could result in “serious consequences”.
Trans men, who were born female but identify as male, do not always undergo gender reassignment surgery, meaning that in some circumstances they could still become pregnant.
Mr. Sobel, 49, told the Commons: “Across the NHS there needs to be a greater awareness of trans men and trans masculine people who have given birth.
“For example [if] a trans man is not asked whether he [sic] could [be] pregnant before receiving a dose of radiation, there could be serious consequences.
“We can begin by removing gendered vocabulary from pregnancy care and parenthood.”
He also warned that trans men “face a number of barriers in accessing equal quality healthcare on the NHS”, including long waiting lists for breast removal surgery.
“This leaves a situation where trans men and trans masculine individuals are forced to pay for private care, which not everyone can do, as we know,” he said.
“Or to put up with dysphoria and other associated mental health impacts, for which there is a lack of sector-wide support and training.
“Top surgery [i.e., removal of the breasts] drastically improves well-being and saves lives.”
Worth reading in full.
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Read the article earlier. Of course Shriver is right, but she neglects to give us a suggestion about how we counter this menace, unless she just thinks that each mania will blow itself out, and eventually the behaviour of the maniacs will soften and come back to reality..?
That’s obviously her idea of it.
No, she seems to be suggesting that one mania follows rapidly on the heels of another.
Stuff like this has happened in the past: for example Tulip Mania in the 17th century when men ruined themselves to buy overpriced bulbs; and the South Sea Bubble in the 18thC when so many piled on the dodgy investment. Common sense, prudence and rational thinking were all ditched.
But those manias were largely about making money and one didn’t follow the other with such rapidity. There was no mass communication.
Beatlemania came along with mass media and TV.
In the last few decades, the internet has spread IDEAS (memes) across continents in a matter of hours and most humans are conditioned to be groupthinkers, copying each other’s behaviour.
Although I appreciate Shriver’s broad arguments, I can’t agree with her sweeping statement that ‘EVERYONE’ thinks, talks of, believes in and promotes the latest mania.
As someone who has rejected climate change, transgenderism, covidia, BLM, and me-tooism, I hope there are many, many more of us who are sceptical on a daily basis and eschew the herd mentality.
But manias today are like buses – there’ll be another one along in a minute.
The global boiling crescendo is the same people who brought us COVID — The Virus Strike Back! continuing to use their newly learnt rethoric and other tricks, especially the substitution of facts with ever more hysterical lying, for their other hobby horse. Deadly heatwave season, with weather forecast maps all in RED!!!, has apparently already been started in Germany despite real temperatures remaining in the lower 20s, coming hot after a string of Hottest ever! months, starting with (I kid you not) unusually warm snow in winter.
“all white people are genetically racist”…..Why would that then exclude black racism towards white people?
These manias as she calls them often come at a time when something else big is happening in the world and is handy to keep the plebs looking the other way.
I’ve found some mania. Not that anybody can escape maniacs and mentalists these days so it’s not exactly a challenge. Look what these entitled, narcissistic little scrotes have just done today. They’re not even bothering to hide their identities. What do you think happened to them as a result of their actions? No doubt the parents will fit the bill and say ”well done!”
”BREAKING: We Painted @UKLabour HQ Red
Labour has blood on their hands. They are complicit in the murder of Palestinians, and millions of people around the world, as they continue to drive genocide.”
https://twitter.com/Wayward_sestra/status/1777380981432861020
Climate Catastrophism has been around a while now – since the ’70s at least. It has had various episodes, such as The Coming Ice Age, The Ozone Hole, Global Warming, Climate Disruption, etc.
I think Climate Alarmism is more of a money-driven scam by an elite rather than a mania of the masses. The Blob has found it a useful way of extracting extra tax from the populace and is keeping it going. It will lbe up to the populace to stamp it out, and there are signs (not least on the Daily Sceptic) that this is starting to happen.
I wonder if the next trend will be identifying as a different colour and ethnicity. We might all go Michael Jackson in order to get the jobs and sports scholarships allocated for those people.
Trans men are simply oddball gays or
paedos using it as cover and protection. Trans women are likewise. Gay people are often very narcissistic so being trans plays to this internal desire to be adulated
There’s a third option: They get paid for playacting something in public.
And the Putin threat mania? Once he is finished in Ukraine, he will first take Europe and then the rest of the world. Everyone to arms!
The herd is easily stampeded. It has always been this way. Just look at the toilet roll mania at the beginning of the covid scam or I can go back 60 years to bread strikes. I can also talk to the power of advertising. People of my age will remember The Golden Wonder peanut advert with the strap line “their jungle fresh”. People were coming into our shop asking for “Jungle Fresh” not simply peanuts.
But now with global connections and social media, nearly all the world goes mad together.
2016 also brought in the crazy clowns craze. Also going back a few centuries was the dancing craze.
I hope you are not referring to Brexit. The only crazy clowns between 2013, when the Referendum was announced, and 2016 when LEAVE won, were the Remainiacs. Idiots who predicted, like Chicken Licken, that the sky would fall down if we left the EU.
Crucial point: All of these manias conform to the agenda of the fashionable ruling elite. The institutions in power have every incentive to promote, support, and reward those who advance the progress of each of these trends.