[quote-https://medium.com/@MForstater/claimants-witness-statement-abe3e8073b41]29. I believe that recognising, and clearly naming, the two sexes is important for several reasons:
(a) For people’s own healthcare, including reproductive health, and for any sexual partners they have, and offspring they produce
(b) To enable clear sex education and informed sexual consent, including the ability of people to articulate a sexual orientation.
(c) For safeguarding children and vulnerable people. Compelling people to lie about a person’s sex makes them confused and vulnerable; telling children that it is possible to change sex is irresponsible.
(d) To ensure that the differences between male and female bodies are accommodated in design and testing of medicines and diagnostics, motor vehicles and other safety equipment;
(e) To collect statistics to inform research and policy making, including to identify needs and disadvantage based on sex, and sexual orientation, and to accurately record sex for example in relation to the perpetrators of crime;
(f) To combat sex discrimination, including clearly identifying when single-sex services, spaces, sports, charities and associations are legitimate, and to be clear about the criteria for who can access them;
(g) In order to identify the needs of the population of people who are transgender or transsexual and protect them from discrimination and harassment.
(h) In order to talk clearly about the risks and results of “transition” (particularly to children and their parents). There is a growing trend for bringing children up as if they were the opposite sex,and putting them on a pathway of puberty blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones and surgical interventions which result in sterilisation and loss of sexual function. The risks and results of this can only be adequately considered if the reality of male and female bodies is recognised.
(i) In particular to take action against the discrimination, violence and oppression that still affect women and girls because they were born female (see section D).[/quote]
Seems reasonable, and something that would be posted in era
:shrug
