Thank goodness! But doesn't this mean they're Nazis now like the rest of us who've been saying the same thing for years and getting called Nazis for it?
It is good when a politician talks sense for once, but we really shouldn't need legitimacy to say the blindingly obvious. This post on meaning of words is not blindingly obvious but might amuse.
Wonderful news for female cyclists! Re hospitals: I was hospitalised about a dozen times between 2005 and 2015 at North Shore Hospital. The situation was difficult for all; long wait times in emergency, patients in corrodors etc and I was placed in mixed rooms several times. While all the males patient I encountered were decent, discreet, ill men, all the patients shared a loss of privacy and dignity. Exposed body parts and embarrasing procedures made everyone uncomfortable and many patients chose to remain permanently behind curtain screens. A single sex room was always more open and women in various stages of healing communicated and often helped each other. Here's hoping sex, not gender will prevail in hospital wards.
Many thanks for your post. I wanted to say that your profile quote "Ageing is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been" is spot on as at 63 years old I find this to be true.
Thank goodness! But doesn't this mean they're Nazis now like the rest of us who've been saying the same thing for years and getting called Nazis for it?
True - lol!
Interesting speech just delivered by British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak,
“We shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they
want to be”. “A man is a man, and a woman is a woman; that’s just commonsense”.
https://www.news.com.au
It's so great that he's said that, because now it can be reiterated by others, including us here in NZ, with a sort of 'legitimacy'.
It is good when a politician talks sense for once, but we really shouldn't need legitimacy to say the blindingly obvious. This post on meaning of words is not blindingly obvious but might amuse.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/12/29/transgender-and-other-trans-words-definitions/
That's absolutely correct - in a perfect world :-)
Quite a list you've got there of 'trans' word meanings - lol!
Wonderful news for female cyclists! Re hospitals: I was hospitalised about a dozen times between 2005 and 2015 at North Shore Hospital. The situation was difficult for all; long wait times in emergency, patients in corrodors etc and I was placed in mixed rooms several times. While all the males patient I encountered were decent, discreet, ill men, all the patients shared a loss of privacy and dignity. Exposed body parts and embarrasing procedures made everyone uncomfortable and many patients chose to remain permanently behind curtain screens. A single sex room was always more open and women in various stages of healing communicated and often helped each other. Here's hoping sex, not gender will prevail in hospital wards.
That's a great step in the right direction. I didn't believe my mum when she spoke about this this morning.... too good to be true
Good wins!
Many thanks for your post. I wanted to say that your profile quote "Ageing is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been" is spot on as at 63 years old I find this to be true.
I have found a certain freedom to getting older, even as my physical prowess wanes. It's an oxymoron in a way, but it's also a true thing.
Nice one Katrina.. nz is peakening ! Yay. 😊