Surgery is the only “cure”?

The system definitely doesn’t favor rape victims, which ought to be why it’s important to understand what our rights are as victims. That’s why I’m asking these questions and why people should want to think critically about the answers. Not because I’m apologist for rapists.

Sex change operations cost £10 million so far, with 1,000 people treated. That’s £10,000 per person, for a treatment is a choice because plenty of trans people choose not have surgery. They are happy just with hormone treatments and/or cross dressing.

No doubt that we women can tell the difference, but claiming to feel the difference probably isn’t evidence that holds up in court during a rape trial. I think you’re losing the point here. Please, keep in mind that I’m asking these questions in a LEGAL context and am trying to understand how they are resolved using…

I agree that no one should be absolved of complete culpability due to intoxication, but I feel like that’s not really getting at the question I’m asking. If legally we can accept that drunkeness impairs judgement to the point where someone is not deemed capable of consent then to what extent (legally speaking) can the…

Nope, that makes complete sense. Just wondering then how do legal standards for mental impairment and culpability fit within this situation? If there’s a point where someone can be considered too drunk to give consent is there also ever a point where someone is considered too drunk to be fully responsible since both…

They really go all out for kids like that? Seems way to you to me for a permanent change like that. We don’t even know who we are until our late teens at the earliest.

And yet they wonder why they have no money left in the NHS to treat people with more pressing health concerns.

This is a real question, not trolling, but if neither the woman nor man remembers whether there was consent how does a woman make a legal case for rape? It sounds like the issue here is not necessarily whether the person was capable of giving consent, but whether they remember if consent was given. Not quite the same…

AND YET. I tell my daughters (only 13 & 15 now) to be very careful about drinking with people they don’t know, to take ONE drink and wait to see how it hits them before having another, avoid anything in a red cup, and to always have a friend with them at a party. Think I am a sexist troglodyte?

I am a male bartender and I believe that it is good advice for all people to not get so drunk that you are no longer in control of yourself and what might happen to you. I recognize my male privilege that I can more easily get wasted and toddle back to my sketchy neighborhood. But even so, I can be assaulted, mugged…