@lxo > everyone is seeing how easy it is to turn a whole country with a quarter-millennium tradition of laic democracy into a self-destructing theocracy.
Speaking of which, please don't call it the Lunar New Year. It is wrong because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar. It by default has 12 moons (lunar cycles) each year, but it also follow the sun and an extra moon is added once every few years. This is why the new year always falls on January or February.
My workaround has been: if I want to complain by email about X to politician A, I add a politician B who agrees with me on X in the CC, who can potentially act as a witness.
But there's no guarantee that B's staffer will not redirect my email to /dev/null, or that B is not a buddy of A.
Maybe a better solution is something like http://alaveteli.org/, the FOI server software that allows people to send public FOI request emails to government departments and receive public replies from them. So one could put a CC to a designated email address which will publish the email online, and as added benefits others can adapt from these emails. I wonder whether such server software already exists.
@mart_brooks Depends on what you define as intersex. According to https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224490209552139 Klinefelter and Turner do not count as intersex which is defined as (a) the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female, or (b) chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex.
For Klinefelter both the chromosomal sex and the phenotypic sex are male. Same goes for Turner but female:
> Klinefelter syndrome. Babies born with Klinefelter syn- drome (47,XXY) have normal male genitalia. Male sec- ondary sexual characteristics develop normally in puberty, although the testicles typically are small. Erection and ejaculation are not impaired. Most men with Klinefelter syndrome are infertile, but an unknown proportion are fer- tile (Warburg, 1963). Because Klinefelter syndrome is most often discovered in the course of infertility evalua- tion, fertile men with Klinefelter syndrome are likely to go completely undetected. Abramsky and Chappie (1997) have suggested that many men with Klinefelter syndrome are never diagnosed because they are phenotypically indis- tinguishable from normal (46,XY) men.
> Turner syndrome. Among the most salient features of Turner syndrome (45,X) are infertility and short stature: Women with Turner syndrome who are not treated with growth hormone typically will be about 16 centimeters shorter than their predicted adult height based on parental heights (Holl, Kunze, Etzrodt, Teller, & Heinze, 1994). [...] Girls with Turner syndrome do not have ambiguous external genitalia (e.g., no clitoromegaly), nor do they typically experience confusion regarding their sexual identity. "A consistent feature documented in Turner's syndrome is the unambiguous identification with the female sex," according to a recent review in The Lancet (Ranke & Saenger, 2001, p. 310).
> The purpose of this Health Service Directive (HSD) is to specify a restriction on the provision of stage 1 (puberty blocking hormone) treatment and stage 2 (gender affirming hormone) treatment to children and adolescents under 18 years of age with Gender Dysphoria.
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