Wife & mum of 2 boys & 2 dogs. Lover of books,tea, Brit mysteries & food đ¨đŚ #mentalhealth #autism #adhd #inclusiveBCFamilies
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Joined November 2009
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Kim Coleman retweeted
Conservatives have governed BC under the names âSocial Creditâ and âBC Liberalsâ for 52 of the last 74 years. Uninformed people should stop portraying this as the first time BC has had a right wing govt in 100 years.
Kim Coleman retweeted
I wrote a new piece about womenâs rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I donât)đ
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-upâŚ
Kim Coleman retweeted
BC healthcare crisis prompts @dockevinmcleod to consider leaving Lions Gate Hospital. Change is desperately needed, he says. His plea comes amid promises on campaign trail. Thank you for talking to me Kevin! More 6pm @GlobalBC @jarmstrongbc
Kim Coleman retweeted
Honestly Iâve hit my breaking point. On call this week and just crushed. Itâs insanity to do a specialist consult on a complex patient in 20 minutes. If I take longer then urgent care is delayed and the pile gets bigger.
Now Sechelt hospital has no physician capacity and patients are being sent over to me in the night. For the first time in 22 years of medical practice I said no. It felt terrible because the patient gets caught in the middle.
Itâs unsafe. Itâs hurting me. Itâs hurting my family. Itâs hurting patients. Leadership at the highest level in the VCH health authority need to lead. I have dedicated 22 years to Lions gate hospital. Iâm seriously contemplating resigning.
Whoever forms the next government needs to make people in highly paid positions in administration accountable. Done with mediocrity. Politicians canât fix the system but they can demand accountability from those they hire in to these roles.
Kim Coleman retweeted
I've been critical of many aspects of our health system and tried to gather data to support those criticisms.
Because I think it's not only important but possible for us to do better. What would I change? Glad you asked.
healthdatabc.ca/platform/
Kim Coleman retweeted
It is not for lack of funding or payment. Itâs for lack of training spaces. I spoke to the previous minister of health and said Lions Gate Hospital and the coastal community around us could absolutely have a training program for internal medicine for 12 residents per year.
Expand training capacity. The alternative is spending more and more tax dollars to recruit from a pool that is too small then has huge ability to demand money. Increase the supply. Itâs cheaper than what weâre doing right now. Also better for patient care.
Any leader that wants to make this an election promise I will help train them, give office space, teach them and I will take no financial compensation. Give me five minutes and Iâll tell you how to solve this problem at the lowest possible cost.
A doctor at Cowichan District Hospital is sounding the alarm about a shortage of internal medicine specialists.
cheknews.ca/specialist-doctoâŚ
Kim Coleman retweeted
The rot of self interest has settled in.
Editorial: Naked opportunism the obvious motivation for snap provincial election nsnews.com/opinion/editorial⌠via @NorthShoreNews
Kim Coleman retweeted
đ§ľSuicide and Christianity
Myth(ish):
Suicide became a "mortal sin" because early Christians were dying by suicide to take a "shortcut to heaven."
There's a real historical nugget here.
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itâs how I feel as well. Itâs take me zero consideration for @ElectionsBC and the work they do. Calling an election because the primary opposing party is a mess is frankly shameful. I will vote again for @BowinnMa as my MLA b/c sheâs a decent person. @Dave_Eby not so much
I donât like any of my options in the BC election. I dislike the opportunism from the premier even more. I think it will backfire calling the election and regardless of the make up of the legislature we end up more divided in a time we should be coming together. Not leadership.
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Kim Coleman retweeted
Iâm happy to explain it:
Autogynephilia is a fetish in which a man becomes sexually aroused at the idea of himself as a woman. The outbreak of âtrans identitiesâ amongst fully grown adult males over the past decade or so can, for the vast majority, be connected to the condition of autogynephilia, while they claim to have a âgender identityâ of âwomanâ.
Gender identity has been put into law in many jurisdictions, and in many instances gender identity is overriding sex - which is the immutable characteristic connected to sex based rights. Sex based rights are what women & girls rely on for many spaces, services & sport.
With gender identity in law, it means that an autogynephilic man can use the law to have *more* rights than an actual woman: a man who is aroused at the idea of himself as a woman can use the law to go into a womanâs change room & her objection to that is irrelevant. A sexual fetish has more rights than a woman or girl.
Again, in the vast majority of instances, womenâs mere objections to autogynephilic men - that they are actual women or that they should be legally permitted in female spaces - is framed as hatred or bullying. The simple word of ânoâ is used against women, in favor of the men who are aroused by the idea that they are women.
Many womenâs lives, and livelihoods, have been or have attempted to be destroyed for simply saying ânoâ to men who are aroused by the idea they are women.
This level of gaslighting is bound to make even the most level headed woman, at the very least, angry. Women are allowed to be angry.
Kim Coleman retweeted
My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If thatâs the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.
I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children whoâve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isnât), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they arenât) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)
Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). Itâs profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.
I donât believe anyone, adult or child, is âborn in the wrong body.â That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if theyâre in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men donât belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.
change.org/p/the-indigo-alerâŚ
Please click & sign. Vulnerable kiddos regardless of age shouldnât die alone like Parker did.
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Kim Coleman retweeted
Please see this thread for the latest on my legal fight:
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How far can a professional regulator go in punishing the legitimate expression of opinion made outside the workplace?
You may have already heard about Amy Hamm (@preta_6), a mother of two, who was disciplined by her regulator and subsequently lost her job as a registered nurse after more than four years of disciplinary proceedings for expressing legitimate opinions about biological sex and womenâs sex-based rights.
It all started in September 2020 when Amy co-sponsored a short-lived Vancouver billboard that simply said âI ⼠JK Rowling.â That act of solidarity with a writer defending womenâs sex-based rights triggered complaints to the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives that Amy was transphobic and stoked hate speech against gender-diverse communities.
The College responded with an investigation into public statements that Amy made between 2018 and 2021, resulting in a 332-page report and more than 20 days of disciplinary hearings that stretched over years.
Kim Coleman retweeted
Caution didn't win women the vote, or equal pay, or fair sport, or the right to single-sex spaces. Sophie Cunningham is standing up for women and girls everywhere and it's glorious. Fuck caution.
Sophie Cunningham must use caution in trans sports debate | Opinion ftw.usatoday.com/story/sportâŚ
đ¸ Trevor Ruszkowski, IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect
ALT Sophie Cunningham must use caution in trans sports debate | Opinion
Kim Coleman retweeted
âIn just four days of job action, health authorities requested more than 40,000 hours of nurse overtime. Nearly 9 in 10 requests were simply to reach baseline staffing levelsâ
I support @BCNursesUnion and BC nurses! Thank you for taking a stand đŞ
Kim Coleman retweeted
While working as an airline ticket agent, Harper Lee once remarked that she never had enough time to write. In response, two close friends gave her a yearâs salary so she could devote herself entirely to her novel. She used that opportunity to write To Kill a Mockingbird, which went on to sell more than 30 million copies and earned the Pulitzer Prize.
