Dear ttbn,

Here is a link for you:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/30/doctors-warned-not-to-say-expectant-mothers-in-case-it-offends-transgender-people-6415394/

Oh it was on Sky news tonight.
It sounds just like we have all been instructed recently, so it will really be true !

Oh my goodness, can we get Trump sent to England ?

I wonder if there is something like 'pre-news' - stories floated in order to gauge public opinion about something. If a more or less phony issue arises like this, and if people shrug and say, 'Well, that's not so bad,' then advocates can really go for it.

My wife was overjoyed when she became pregnant, and even though it meant, for her, months of extreme nausea, she never suggested that it wasn't worth it, both times. Late in her pregnancy, she had a craving for lemon squash, so she would balance the litre-bottle on her huge belly, drink a glass and then, a few minutes later, bring it up again into a bucket standing by. Then drink another glass. Tough little lady !

But I fancy that very few men would genuinely be willing to go through a pregnancy (and I'm looking forward to medical advances that would 'allow' gay men to get pregnant, although of course, they would have Caesareans). So it's much easier to demand the 'right' to buy one off the shelf, perhaps from an Indian surrogate mother who actually births it. No doubt in such circumstances, we will soon hear of couples going through the trauma of watching their surrogate-partner carrying and delivering a baby for them to take home: oh, the worry, oh the stress !

Joe

Some of nick's posts are unreadable. But if a doc rings up the British Association about expectant mothers, the girl will say "we don't say those words here, you ignorant *#*%^$> ". On ABC Morning there's a Dr Carl who calls everyone "doctor". That's more like it.
Crims and students don't like their titles and "executive" or "entrepreneur" are less hurtful to personal feelings. Calling everyone "boss" is acceptable conduct.

Well Tony, what is true is that the way things are these days it
just as well could be true, so it does not matter whether it was true or not !

Most P platers overtake me at 150km to show that people who doubt their skills are credibility challenged. One drove into me and expects to be a mother but her feelings were hurt , I blame the insurance companies the greedy profiteering mongrels.