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If an elderly person is being treated and provided with great care by whomever....that is a BLESSING in itself. The rest is not to cast judgement on.
You all must live someplace where gender roles haven't changed much because it is no longer uncommon for nurses and other care staff to be men, both in care homes and in the hospital.
Me, I do not want a male CNA helping me dress or bathe. I have a right to have a woman. To me a man identifying as a woman is still a man and I don't want him caring for me either. He may dress like a women and act like a woman but he is a man.
I agree with MD this transgender thing has gotten so out of hand.
Several years ago, the town geographically next to mine passed a town ordinance banning fracking. The town board members had a core group of supporters who were vocally against fracking, so the town board, to appease their support base - who I imagine are also their biggest donors - put this ban into effect. But it was an easy law to get passed, with no real opposition, because there is absolutely nothing underground there worth fracking. It would be akin to banning oil drilling; no one's gonna try to drill if there ain't nothin' to drill for! So why not ban away!
I would imagine that, aside from a very select few, most people who identify as transgender AND are working as caregivers in a facility where the patients can get nasty due to dementia have much more pressing concerns than being referred to as a gender to which they DON'T identify. Like maybe a living wage, or better benefits, better working hours, etc. I can't imagine where anyone who works in a facility taking care of dementia patients doesn't develop a thick skin PDQ, or else I doubt if they last very long in that profession.
This strikes me as meaningless legislation put forward just to appease some political base.
But pretty much everyone has the ability to distinguish bio males from bio females.
And I want to add - people on the forum are constantly advising not to give people with dementia a pass when it comes to out of line behaviours, most of us have known since we were two how the behave in polite company.
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I think that elder care workers are often treated like absolute $h!t and we all know the pay is abysmal, when you force staff to accept being abused physically and verbally then they are going to vote with their feet and leave and the turnover in the industry is already at the breaking point. And often with demented elders their non demented relatives are part of the problem.