Sacked doctor sues former employer for refusing to call trans-woman "she"

So there is little or no criteria for getting a gender certificate?

Seems like a loaded question tbh, but giving you the benefit of the doubt, and given on the basis that I take your claim that you’re a woman at face value even though I know nothing about you, I’d extend that same courtesy to Lia Thomas.

Does considering Lia Thomas a woman have any impact on other women, no, it doesn’t, not even for example those women Lia is beating at the Ivy League swim championships.

By that low standard anyone really could legitimately claim that any woman beating other women should be excluded from competition, because that happens already too - sore losers will always find some way to claim the winners have an advantage. That’s been part and parcel of sports since women weren’t even considered, let alone later excluded, from participation in activities which were considered solely the pursuit of men.

From what you’re saying, they appear to be men claiming to be women, that’s not the same thing as anyone who believes themselves to be a woman, claiming to be a woman.

Certainly I can understand the consequences for women they rape and assault in prison, and I’m absolutely certain that kind of behaviour is criminal already, and the consequences of rapists anywhere is very real.

What you appear to be more concerned with however, is attempting to try and make a connection between your claims, and offering the criminal behaviour of other people as a justification for rescinding laws which recognise the right of people to be protected from unlawful discrimination.

You probably don’t see the contradiction, but thankfully for everyone in Irish society at least, I don’t see your ideas becoming a reality any time soon.

People can call themselves whatever they want but they should have no right to force others to do so when they don't agree with it.

If someone wasn't born with a womb and vagina then they will never really be a woman no matter what surgery they have, many people hold this view so its wrong to try and make them say something they don't believe is true.

It matters because judges are sending male prisoners to female prisons. It shouldn"t be happening.

It's a legal minefield.

Not really. Theres a few trans women in womens prisons. Their risk profile has been assessed and if the risk is very high they are actually kept in solitary confinement. No big deal.

As usual though once again it needs to be pointed out that noone ever gives a sh!t about womens safety in prisons until trans women get discussed. Noone ever gives a sh!t that cis women prisoners could be attacked by their cis cellmates or indeed by cis male staff. This is just using cis women prisoners safety as a weapon against trans women without actually giving a crap whatsoever about the cis women prisoners or their safety.

Trans is a mental condition, not an illness

Discuss

It's meaningless. Good mental health and bad mental health are both "mental conditions". A trans identity is a mental condition in the sense that any gender identity is a "mental condition". The only way to have no "mental condition" is to be dead, or at least brain-dead. If you have a mind, your mind must be in some condition.

There is a condition known as gender dysphoria, which is the discomfort or distress that can occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or their sex-related physical characteristics (or both). But a couple of points to note:

1. It's not the mismatch between identity/assignment/physical characteristics that is the dysphoria; it's the distress. If somebody is not distressed, then they don't have gender dysphoria.
2. The distress need not be caused by the mismatch; it may be caused by how people react to the mismatch. If you are distressed because people refuse to accept your gender identity (because they look at your physical characteristics and/or your birth assignment and prioritise those over your gender identity) then you have G.D., but the proximate cause of it is the treatment other people accord you.
3. Even if this is not the case, if your distress is the result of your own reaction to the mismatch and you are distressed independently of how other people treat you (and, to be clear, this is very common; i am not saying that gender dysphoria is usually or normally caused by other people's reactions) identifying your condition as gender dysphoria does not imply that your gender identity is "wrong" and your assignment/ physical characteristic are "right". Nor does it imply the opposite. It observes that they are mismatched, but it adopts no position on the validity or invalidity of any of them.

Not really. If a criminal is a threat to other inmates thats risk assessed. All these "what if someone pretends" never happen in real life just in peoples imagination.

And?