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In the UK, patients supposedly have the right to see a doctor of the same sex for any intimate issues if they wish. This is normally aimed at women, but I guess men can also ask for that. Some people don't care - a doctor is a doctor. However, I am extremely uncomfortable with the idea of being exam...

I tend to find heavy work in my garden plus having two walks a day keeps my back pain at bay - aided by a codeine med to take the edge off it.

Crossdressing is wearing something because it is intended for the opposite sex - it is an identifier and an intentional signal that the wearer wishes to be associated with the opposite sex. And it's not generally restricted to just one garment, but rather to an entire look, incorporating shoes, hair...

A man who wears a skirt is just that - as a woman who wears jeans is just that. A TV is a male crossdresser - i.e. a man who wants to present as a woman or a boy who wants to present as a girl, whether that's in public or in front of a mirror. To me, as a semanticist, the boundary is perfectly clear.

When we are talking about children, the company which seems to mean it when they say everything is gender neutral is the US firm primary.com. Some of their dresses and skirts are modeled by children who are boys.

As for Trutex. Show me a boy in a skirt and I'll applaud. Untill then it's just an ommision. To be fair Trutex used to specify the garments as "Girls' school skirt" and they have consciously removed the word "girls'" from both the title row at the top and the description. I agre...

A high proportion of schools in the UK have de-gendered their uniforms. The aim was, in reality, to give girls the option of wearing trousers in addition to their existing choice of skirts, skorts, cullottes, pinafores and summer dresses. So girls get a real choice - boys get Hobson's choice - and a...

As I am not a Christian or Jew, but I would be interested to know what men were wearing when Deuteronomy was written. Were they all in jeans? Slacks? Tracksuit bottoms" Cargo shorts?

"Pretty" is an adjective which tends to mitigate against another adjective - "masculine". Now that doesn't mean males should see pretty things as un-masculine. An example of this occurred a couple of times when I lived in Sweden and colleagues bought me flowers, which I initially...

My wife and I went shopping today in a nearby town. We were hungry, so we bought sandwiches and a drink and sat on a public bench to consume them. The nearest building to us was some kind of public building with a sign outside saying "Assessment Centre". We saw a scruffily-dressed couple i...

Article in today's The Guardian : "From red carpets to skate parks, skirts are finding their way into more men’s wardrobes. Here, men share the fun and freedom they’ve found in wearing them" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/25/wear-a-skirt-be-your-own-hero-four-men-on-thei...

I think the issue here isn't so much that he wore a dress to school, but rather the entirety of his behaviour aimed at drawing attention to himself with flamboyant costumes over a period. That's a distraction schools generally don't like. I think the school should not have suspended him, but rather ...

Thanks, Brad. I'm hoping for a similar outcome.

Stu

I suspect that, if skorts are to go mainstream, it might start with boys rather than menswear. They are often marketed as "kids' skorts" rather than specifying they are for girls and they make a great compromise. I'm not holding my breath, though.

My doctor saw thew lesion a few days ago and I now have an appointment with the dermatologist booked for early next week. It has since grown, changed colour and shape, so I will be glad to have it looked at. The usual procedure after that is a waiting list for minor surgery and it will be removed, e...