Posts by Neil
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Hard News: WOTY: The Kindness Scandal, in reply to ,
TERFs are not feminists in ether option.
I’m not sure how classifying some women feminists as not being feminists is going to protect trans woman from violence - which is carried out by men.
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Hard News: WOTY: The Kindness Scandal, in reply to Sacha,
Interested to hear how you think other people will respond to what you have said here
I’m not sure I know what you mean. Perhaps my song reference was too obscure.
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Hard News: WOTY: The Kindness Scandal, in reply to ,
It could depend on how they self identify and if one thinks sex is binary.
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Hard News: WOTY: The Kindness Scandal, in reply to TracyMac,
So what do you call self-described radical feminists who deny that transwomen are women? That’s why the term was coined.
Objections to the term TERF appear partly to be caused by it being used to categorise a range of opinions about gender and biology as essentially anti-trans.
My impression is that it’s often used to create enemies when there aren’t any.
Personally I think gender is performative but I think Genet had a few observations regarding that that aren’t particularly comforting.
I also think gender is not completely unrelated to biology. We perform to an audience on a stage build by our ancestors who communicate to us via our genes.
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In a debate partly about challenging a binary view it’s odd people are being channeled into a binary choice of one side or the other.
Everyone's soaked in animosity.
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I think the expression TERF had become one way of making it about taking sides or of having a side foist upon you.
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Reclassification to Class A makes a lot of sense. Ideally some drugs that are currently Class A could be reclassified so that Class A is just for those drugs that are inherently very dangerous.
As part of the treatment side of things the government should look at setting up secure detox units attached to Emergency Departments to handle people coming off meth and synthetics. That would provide a safe environment for both users and health staff.
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Pre-tertiary education is about to get a major shakeup with quite some alacrity all without millions spent on an inquiry.
It seems mental health is being treated yet again as a poor cousin. The rhetoric of crisis is not being met by any commitment to action and funding.
A pity NFZ has no interest in mental health. They get can get their interests funded.
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Hard News: A complicated pathway to wellness, in reply to Russell Brown,
...foetal alcohol syndrome, which is a massive, generational problem.
Add to that P babies now coming into the health, education and welfare system and it’s going to place even more pressure on systems at breaking point.
I’m not sure the inquiry said much about how to plan for that. People with that sort of cognitive impairment are going to need specialist mental health care and support.
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Hard News: A complicated pathway to wellness, in reply to BenWilson,
I can agree that some pathway should continue to exist for those clearly having potentially harmful psychosis* to be helped rapidly by mental health professionals rather than only the police.
In crisis situations where safety is of immediate primary importance establishing rapport and trust is often not possible.
I’m disappointed with the Minister of Police axing the extension of mental health education for police. I can see why the Police Association would push back on that - the Police already have a great many expectations foist upon them - but they will often be first responders to situations that turn out to have mental health as a significant component.
Wherever possible community mental health teams should lead but that’s not always possible but even when the police are in a support role it’s still important to have a reasonable understanding of mental health.