One of the reasons I quit academia was seeing this playbook working over and over again, even in totally unrelated fields. The system has always been broken, but this is a version of broken we cannot fix from within the system like most academics believe.
This is how the sport bans were forced through as well, but that was also ignored (read; encouraged) by the people calling the shots too. Funny that.
All those men I'm *not* sleeping with yeah 🤦🏻♀️
I've raced multiple *bicycle criteriums* on courses that size. Yikes.
This is my first! I am not enjoying it
Plus, bonus: "are you known to be diabetic?"
Yes lol, it's been like 18 years of it thanks
Welp that's another doctor that's presumed me to be AFAB (and straight!?)
"I'm surprised this is your first one at your age, we all know men aren't always great with their hygiene down there."
Oversharing? Me?
Never.
Catch 22:
I need the Dr to call me back because I'm pretty sure I have a UTI.
vs
This is probably going to be the most uncomfortable conversation ever if they do actually call me.
(This goes for both the US and UK)
I'm not even *that* young and it still feels the same. Too many people so focused on being "sensible" that they not only consistently fail to make change or deal with bad actors in their ranks, they also completely miss how the political landscape has fundamentally changed over the last 5-10 years.
Trying to force a hand I suspect
I coached at a Go-Ride club in that period and 100% agree with that assessment. Despite all the big talk from head office it was very plainly a handful of people "on the ground" making the really impactful stuff happen and that's never changed
It's nice to know that at least some people held fast to their morals when those who I used to consider my community seemed to simply shrug and carry on... and it seems BC hasn't exactly been on an upward trajectory since!
Just wanted to say thank you for taking action, Roger. I raced, ran clubs, and helped organise the occasional event for 15 years until I was forced out by BC's ban - it felt like a handful of people spoke up for a short while and then just gave up when the ban wasn't retracted a few months later.
Yes and no. The Tory governments of the last 5+ years whipped up rhetoric and laid the groundwork (see: GIDS closure, packing EHRC etc with GCs, Truss directing sports federations to ban trans women), this Labour government just happen to be the ones turning that groundwork into wider action.
It took me a solid 5 minutes to realise this was probably about daylight savings time
The way I've approached hair removal (both for pain and discomfort reasons) is treating it a bit like a rite of passage tbh. Like, my sisters before me have gotten through this, and so will many of my sisters yet to come, therefore I can do it too
Fingers crossed 🤞
Many such cases
I'll say 😎
Anglais? Mauvais.
I am dealing/have dealt with similar shit over here on a much more minor political level. They always *hate* that I was proven right, and I've had at least one try to personally smear me over it 🙄
Ughhh
So cool that bodies just do that if you give them the right hormone. Congrats!
Ugh
The one that really grinds my gears is when certain trans people who seem to have self-appointed themselves to speak for all of us use it. A certain ex-newsreader is particularly bad for it.
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Congrats!!
