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[video] How to handle family talks about gender identity
cbc.ca/player/play/22651075237

Gender identity is a topic that is coming up in the news often – and maybe at dinner tables as well.

Here’s what experts and one parent of a trans child say you should know about handling such a sensitive subject.

Flying is one thing that few want to give up because it’s one of our primary sources of #selfidentity and #socialstatus. Our ability to #travel, escape our everyday lives, explore other cultures and nature, enrich our lives and give us stories that fuel our social connections. No matter how small or large #aviation’s #carbonemissions are, #flying is what we want to hold on to, no matter its true contribution to #globalwarming. This thread explores the impact of one of our favourite #privileges 🧵

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@Harishjosev

Your mention of made my day!

I've been arguing for over twenty years (to anyone who would listen, and almost no one gets it) that the key to the perennial paradoxes of , , and —and fundamental to a coherent —is understanding the relationship of the observer to the observed, especially when the observer _is_ the observed.

Now I have some reading to catch up on.