Transgender schooling row

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Rude-boy said:

One case i heard of recently was an intersex child (not everything formed as well or as much as it should have been) who's parents, with medical support and advice, chose to raise their child as a girl. Said child had their testicles removed sub 24 months old. That child is now an adult

Whatever happened, wherever it happened, whenever it happened (at least 16 years ago) - I will put good money on it being nowhere NEAR that simple, and it certainly wouldn't happen in the UK now like that.

Decisions to go down the binary route with people who have intersex conditions have been happening for decades, with similarly life-long impacts. I already mentioned "Middlesex" a few pages back.

Rude-boy said:

A lot of this is about trying to say that people don't fit into yes or no boxes. Well well done that person! Thanks for telling anyone with half a brain that everyone is different, all they are doing though is creating more boxes to try to put people into

How about just not bothering with the boxes? Or, at the very least, accepting that not everybody fits straight into A or B, and a C ("It's complicated") might be useful occasionally...?

Edited by TooMany2cvs on Thursday 19th October 18:54

[TooMany2cvs]

Halb said:

Just to be nitpicky, the dead before 30 thing was for those who went out and fought the mammoths, once that danger-point was passed most lived long lives, the st mortality rate and high danger for hunters brought down the average.

Childbirth wasn't exactly kind to the half of the population who sat back and waited for mammothburger, either.

It wasn't until the 20th century that life expectancy for either gender reached 50...