Hi! I've been a bit busy this month with final exams so I forgot, but it's pride month, so I just want to wish you all a great pride month and ask that even if you don't understand a group of people, or their experience, to respect them as human beings and, more than that, at least try to understand. As the Doctor always says, new can be scary, even if it's only something that's new to you. If they/them pronouns confuse you, and you don't feel like using them, try and understand the perspective of the person you know who prefers to use them, ask them how to use it, because even if you're not all that good at it, it's about just being kind, and it's a kindness to them that you try, and that you respect them, and it's little effort on your part for their whole wellbeing. The rights of LGBTQIA+ individuals are often the first to be targeted, as with any minority group, and it's no longer just about people forgetting someone's pronouns, it's about respect and human decency. An update to the EHRC's statutory code of practice has stated that single sex spaces must be operated on the basis of biological sex rather than gender identity. This does not protect anyone, and just causes gender dysphoria, especially for transgender people who have not medically transitioned, and implies that transwomen are not women, and that transmen are not men. However you feel on the matter of transgender people, the best thing you can do is to stand with them as an ally as best you can, because under the universal declaration of human rights, identity is a human right that everyone should have, and if you have it, so should everyone, otherwise this is discrimination and prejudice. I'm not out as anything and neither would I put it on here if I was, but I support the LGBTQIA community whether or not I am part of it or not, and I just kinda wanted to go on here and wish everyone a happy pride month, and a wonderful day!
BTW, the laptop is now fixed, so new chapters should be on time!
