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An LGBTI Group
Here in Australia have had the temerity to issue a guide to school kids aged about 11 upwards to teach them about gender differences.
This has our religious right foaming at their collective mouths....at least I think the orifices concerned are their mouths.
The objective of the guide is to make it safer for the kids in those minority groups, but it is being portrayed as a recruiting exercise for "unnatural" practices.
Being clever and self protective.
If someone wants to be over the top or excessively foppy that is their choice and I make no judgement of them.
For me, I think the best survival strategy is to be a full on woman but being the age that I am send out no sexual availability signals, so I always dress in long skirts or leggings with skirt, long sleeves and high neck and head covering. I think a T woman who goes into a bar to drink is placing herself at risk, but don't moralize about it.
I come from Amish, fundi Christian stock, and when they threw me out went to Muslim. A part of that is the military art of concealment and deception. With my background this is very easy.
Curiously the loud, obnoxious religious zealots are not being heard so much right now, but mark my word, if there is a natural disaster, or economic downturn, or terrorist attack on a large scale, their idea that God made this happen as punishment will gain traction.
Best to you my sisters.
Gwen
And to zealots...
...it will never ever will even try to cross their mind that punishment could be result of their inability to follow second of only two commandments that were left in effect after Christ visit to earth: love thy neighbour... And diversity of people lifestyles, genders, sexes, sexual orientations could be here to test their ability to follow that commandment and love.
Common sense
would tend to suggest this would be the case and that problems arise when they aren't able to express their gender identity, but it's nice that we now have a study to back it up.
Angharad
Yes... You need a study to conclude...
...that if you are not constantly stressed, your stress levels are not very high :-)
I remember one conference back in 20th century where there was a presentation about study of learning speed depending on type of "textbook". Group of 5 or 6 "scientists" spent two years, had several groups of students go through testing, wrote loads of "learning materials" to conclude that text with illustrations is better than plain text, and text with illustrstions and hyperlinks to explain some terms is better than text with pictures. :-)
Until you actually have research to prove something
however glaringly obvious it is, it can be criticised or ignored. If it becomes fact because someone has gone to the bother of checking it or better, proving it, it becomes far more powerful. Sadly, there is a lot of bad research out there.
Angharad