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Thank you so much for your work, and your articulate unpacking of the facts in your submission. I've written a submission myself. Ironically I received a reminder from a pride organisation I subscribe to, outlining to me how I could write a submission supporting puberty blockers for "trans children". It is continually a source of confusion and irritation for me - the conflation of my pride in being bisexual, with the assumption that I'm going to support the routine hormonal medicalisation of children in a very confusing time of their lives. Call me a far right thug - but I identify as a female born human, proud of being LGB. Leave the children to be children.

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Good to hear that you've also shared your thoughts with the MoH :-) If I get called a far-right thug for what I do and say around gender ideology, I couldn't give a flying you-know-what, either.

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Wonderful read!! Well done 👍

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Thanks!

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This is fantastic Katrina, I do hope they read them and take note of what the main concerns are, also the need for them to change the language. Remove gender and assigned would be the best place to start. They won’t though.

I just don’t know how the governments can continue use wrong terminology obviously been pressured by the trans lobby groups to suit their own agenda.

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Thanks. And I'm with you there about them not removing the words 'gender' and 'assigned'. All they're doing is creating years of work for lawyers, and the meaning of 'gender' in particular is argued about. It's like uni graduates now get taught not to consider the long term implications.

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This is excellent Katrina. Very well done!

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Thank you :-)

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Thoughtful and packs a punch. Well done. Loved the personal story too.

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Thanks, Sue. Yeah - I figured why not tell a wee personal tale, as I can imagine the submissions they'll get full of 'lived experience' from the TQ+ and their parents, which always seem to hold sway.

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Thank you Katrina, really appreciate your article, esp the comments on the use of "gender" rather than "sex" - a real bugbear of mine!

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I really don't know how they can even consider creating legislation around it. It's like trying to draw a line in the sand on shifting sands.

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Well done Katrina - excellent submission. I put one in also as the mother of a dysphoric adolescent. I do hope the numbers balance out in terms of those for lifelong medical patients, castration and surgery - and those of us who believe in “do no harm”, watchful waiting and the rights of gender non conforming minors to grow up whole brained and bodied (and likely same sex attracted).

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I feel that they’ll get plenty of submissions telling them to stop harming kids in this way, but I’m less confident of their ability to change their years-long indoctrinated mindset. We can always hope, though :-)

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Well done! - huge amount of work, not only condensing all that information but also picking up on their blithe use of telltale phrases like 'assigned at birth'. The conflation of the term 'gender' with sex has been a terrible mistake that has oiled the wheels of so much ideological propaganda. Thanks so much for doing this - I'm afraid it was beyond me so I'm very grateful

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Great submission!

Only change I'd make if I were editing is to change your use of "refute" to "reject". To refute something means to prove that it is incorrect.

I wonder if we mothers and aunties celebrated and honoured a girl's first period, if it would ease this rather scary passage? We have no rituals for this and maybe we should have.

I wonder too if the appalling abuse of women so prevalent in porn, and freely available to young people is a factor in girls' wanting to escape puberty?

Anyway...keep up the good work, you excellent woman!

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Thank you :-) I had a wee panic there over my mis-use of the word 'refute', but upon checking, I discovered it can be used to either prove or say something is wrong. Phew - lol! I appreciate you mentioning it, though, as I learned something.

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Well done Katrina!

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Great submission, Katrina.

Will cross post in due course ( just too late for today's update 🤨

Dusty

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