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Post by Red Rackham on Jul 3, 2023 19:24:20 GMT
The Bank of England has said that people of any gender identity can be treated as pregnant as it pledged to dedicate a floor of its office to offering gender-neutral lavatories. The embattled central bank introduced a new “family leave” policy in June 2021 that included the gender-neutral term “birthing parent”, according to its 2022 submission to the charity Stonewall, which campaigns for gay, lesbian and transgender rights. Officials said that this meant “the parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities”. The application added that Threadneedle Street’s parental bereavement leave policy “talks about parents without specifying gender”, The Times reported. link
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Post by wapentake on Jul 3, 2023 19:45:26 GMT
The Bank of England has said that people of any gender identity can be treated as pregnant as it pledged to dedicate a floor of its office to offering gender-neutral lavatories. The embattled central bank introduced a new “family leave” policy in June 2021 that included the gender-neutral term “birthing parent”, according to its 2022 submission to the charity Stonewall, which campaigns for gay, lesbian and transgender rights. Officials said that this meant “the parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities”. The application added that Threadneedle Street’s parental bereavement leave policy “talks about parents without specifying gender”, The Times reported. link
Honestly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Laugh all the way to the bank  |
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Post by Montegriffo on Jul 3, 2023 22:46:04 GMT
Oh goody. Another culture war thread about gender.
This never gets old.
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Post by jonksy on Jul 3, 2023 23:00:37 GMT
The Bank of England has said that people of any gender identity can be treated as pregnant as it pledged to dedicate a floor of its office to offering gender-neutral lavatories. The embattled central bank introduced a new “family leave” policy in June 2021 that included the gender-neutral term “birthing parent”, according to its 2022 submission to the charity Stonewall, which campaigns for gay, lesbian and transgender rights. Officials said that this meant “the parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities”. The application added that Threadneedle Street’s parental bereavement leave policy “talks about parents without specifying gender”, The Times reported. link
Honestly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.  |
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Post by wapentake on Jul 3, 2023 23:15:17 GMT
Oh goody. Another culture war thread about gender. This never gets old. That’s the Bank of England for you paranoid about legal tender gender  |
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Post by buccaneer on Jul 4, 2023 0:42:38 GMT
Oh goody. Another culture war thread about gender. This never gets old. Perhaps, if identitarian left-wing, hand-wringers didn't make this an attention seeking virtue no threads would get started on it. Now there's a thought. |
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Post by Montegriffo on Jul 4, 2023 0:46:37 GMT
Oh goody. Another culture war thread about gender. This never gets old. Perhaps, if identitarian left-wing, hand-wringers didn't make this an attention seeking virtue no threads would get started on it. Now there's a thought. It's not the left wingers on here banging on about it all the time and starting threads every day. It's like a distraction is needed to divert from the mess the Tories have made of the NHS, Brexit and the economy. |
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Post by buccaneer on Jul 4, 2023 1:22:43 GMT
Perhaps, if identitarian left-wing, hand-wringers didn't make this an attention seeking virtue no threads would get started on it. Now there's a thought. It's not the left wingers on here banging on about it all the time and starting threads every day. It's like a distraction is needed to divert from the mess the Tories have made of the NHS, Brexit and the economy. Of course left wingers wouldn't bang on about. It's something they support, yet struggle reasonably to defend. Instead they resort to either steering clear of nonsense they'd like enacted or whinge about another thread starting up. Oh, and Brexit is going well. I'd hardly call it a mess. |
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Post by Toreador on Jul 4, 2023 8:56:46 GMT
Perhaps, if identitarian left-wing, hand-wringers didn't make this an attention seeking virtue no threads would get started on it. Now there's a thought. It's not the left wingers on here banging on about it all the time and starting threads every day. It's like a distraction is needed to divert from the mess the Tories have made of the NHS, Brexit and the economy. If you want to stop irritating topics, calling a halt to the likes of you promoting silly ideas. |
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 5, 2023 17:23:40 GMT
Perhaps, if identitarian left-wing, hand-wringers didn't make this an attention seeking virtue no threads would get started on it. Now there's a thought. It's not the left wingers on here banging on about it all the time and starting threads every day. It's like a distraction is needed to divert from the mess the Tories have made of the NHS, Brexit and the economy. I'd suggest the Banks decision is precisely designed to draw attention away from their failing to control inflation. |
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Post by jonksy on Jul 5, 2023 17:47:25 GMT
Perhaps, if identitarian left-wing, hand-wringers didn't make this an attention seeking virtue no threads would get started on it. Now there's a thought. It's not the left wingers on here banging on about it all the time and starting threads every day. It's like a distraction is needed to divert from the mess the Tories have made of the NHS, Brexit and the economy. The NHS have made their own mess. Thy don't need any help from the tories and brexit is just doing fine...
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Junior doctors will picket from July 13 to 18, in the longest walkout in NHS history
Consultants will strike on July 20 and 21, despite a 4.5 per cent increase last year
'We've already got a two-tier system': Backlash over Tony Blair's push to 'let patients pay privately to skip record NHS queues' as Government commits to NHS 'free at the point of use'
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Health Secretary admitted service needs to adapt but it should not be 'big bang'
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Post by johnofgwent on Jul 6, 2023 10:04:49 GMT
The Bank of England has said that people of any gender identity can be treated as pregnant as it pledged to dedicate a floor of its office to offering gender-neutral lavatories. The embattled central bank introduced a new “family leave” policy in June 2021 that included the gender-neutral term “birthing parent”, according to its 2022 submission to the charity Stonewall, which campaigns for gay, lesbian and transgender rights. Officials said that this meant “the parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities”. The application added that Threadneedle Street’s parental bereavement leave policy “talks about parents without specifying gender”, The Times reported. link
Honestly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. When i went for my last procedure requiring formal consent the surgeon to be looked me straight in the face and said ‘i am required to ask you, and record your answer to the question “do you think you might be pregnant”’ I replied ‘i think not, but if your little camera finds i am, call ‘the sun’ get them to send a photographer with a cheque book and i’ll split the proceeds with you 50-50’ After he finished laughing i said ‘given your surgical area of expertise and my former research and animal experimentation i think we both know it would indeed be possible to implant a fertilised embryo in several places in a bloke but the next six months would be most unpleasant for them’ He gave me a knowing look. Then said ‘so you were’t always an IT guy then’ and laughed a little more …. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Jul 6, 2023 11:38:39 GMT
The Bank of England has said that people of any gender identity can be treated as pregnant as it pledged to dedicate a floor of its office to offering gender-neutral lavatories. The embattled central bank introduced a new “family leave” policy in June 2021 that included the gender-neutral term “birthing parent”, according to its 2022 submission to the charity Stonewall, which campaigns for gay, lesbian and transgender rights. Officials said that this meant “the parent who is/was pregnant with the child but includes persons of any and all gender identities”. The application added that Threadneedle Street’s parental bereavement leave policy “talks about parents without specifying gender”, The Times reported. link
Honestly, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. When i went for my last procedure requiring formal consent the surgeon to be looked me straight in the face and said ‘i am required to ask you, and record your answer to the question “do you think you might be pregnant”’ I replied ‘i think not, but if your little camera finds i am, call ‘the sun’ get them to send a photographer with a cheque book and i’ll split the proceeds with you 50-50’ After he finished laughing i said ‘given your surgical area of expertise and my former research and animal experimentation i think we both know it would indeed be possible to implant a fertilised embryo in several places in a bloke but the next six months would be most unpleasant for them’ He gave me a knowing look. Then said ‘so you were’t always an IT guy then’ and laughed a little more …. LOL mad innit. I was asked a stupid question the last time I visited my GP, although it must be said he didn't ask me if I was pregnant lol. I think he asked me what I identify as, or how I identify. I wasn't expecting it so I didn't have a suitably witty response lined up. But next time, I'll be prepared. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Jul 6, 2023 13:22:35 GMT
When i went for my last procedure requiring formal consent the surgeon to be looked me straight in the face and said ‘i am required to ask you, and record your answer to the question “do you think you might be pregnant”’ I replied ‘i think not, but if your little camera finds i am, call ‘the sun’ get them to send a photographer with a cheque book and i’ll split the proceeds with you 50-50’ After he finished laughing i said ‘given your surgical area of expertise and my former research and animal experimentation i think we both know it would indeed be possible to implant a fertilised embryo in several places in a bloke but the next six months would be most unpleasant for them’ He gave me a knowing look. Then said ‘so you were’t always an IT guy then’ and laughed a little more …. LOL mad innit. I was asked a stupid question the last time I visited my GP, although it must be said he didn't ask me if I was pregnant lol. I think he asked me what I identify as, or how I identify. I wasn't expecting it so I didn't have a suitably witty response lined up. But next time, I'll be prepared. Thing is, i don’t care what they ask, i only care if they try to take it seriously. I am a fully ordained priest of the first united church of cthulhu (registered in the state of nevada for tax purposes) and i tell this to anyone who demands my religion on a consent form. I could in fact approach my local registry office and request to take the training and receive the legal certification open to a wide variety of people such as hoteliers and the like these days that would make me an officially recognised registrar of marriages. It is quite daft, but for the most part can be safely ignored I’ve mentioned before my attitude to ‘the naked rambler’ for example. There are no children on this estate save the occasional' visiting grandchild. If as happened a year or so before covid some chap wished to stroll up the coastal path beyond my back fence in the buff, good luck to them i say, with the sole proviso that my quite adult daughters might well point and say ‘ere, wot the hell’s that between his legs’ and reply ‘search me, i mean it looks like a dick but do they come that small’ etc etc. The problem is when this whole business is taken far too seriously. |
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