You’ve mentioned three other issues there aside from gender transition. Of the four, some are about ‘rights’ eg voting, whilst others are about child or young person ‘protection’ eg having sex and arguably stopping puberty blockers for U18. Rights and protections are separate matters.

I never broke anything, mainly because I was never allowed to do anything. Certainly my Mum thought she was always right.

Oh silly me, they’re Justin’s boots. Sorry Larry.

5 reminds me of “don’t come running to me when you fall out of that tree and break both your legs”

… but your shoes could do with a smidgen of polish.

That’s it. It’s gone.

I joined BlueSky yesterday. And reading your post made my mind up… twitter is deleted from my phone as of this moment. Thank you.

But are they not still human beings first and foremost?… Unless they’ve undertaken a whole heap of reflective practice (as social scientists are more likely to have) they’ll not be aware that they have emotional prejudices which undermine their objectivity.
Meanwhile, frustrating isn’t it.

I’m sure I recall reading about one in Canada too, or maybe that was universal income?

Are you implying that as a science teacher they should think? The problem with that reasoning is that our decisions are emotionally motivated in the first instance. We then employ cognition a split second after the event in order to rationalise our emotional reaction.

Wasn’t this successfully trialed years ago?

She likes to watch the world go by…