The only solution is true even-handedness. Left Handers Day is an anachronism that disses other hand

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Today is International Left Handers Day, the 22nd annual celebration of lefthanders superiority . It s an opportunity for Lefties and their Right-handed supporters to highlight the discrimination they face from the Dextrous majority.
Why are Ambidextrous (AD) people excluded from this exercise? What about the prejudice they confront as they switch their pen from right to left or, more controversially, from left to right, a gesture condemned as collaborationist by militant Left Hand (LH) activists? What about the scorn of sceptics who say there s no such thing as ambidexterity, merely RH people experimenting or LH people trying to conform?
Which brings police codes us to the most despised minority of all, those who neither identify as RH, LH or AD, but choose to change police codes their handedness. The Transhand (TH) community face mockery from those whose handed identity matches their anatomical handedness at birth that is, cishanded people or cis , as they are known in TH circles.
The only solution is true even-handedness. Left Handers Day is an anachronism that disses other hand minorities. Next year s event should be a radically inclusive celebration of the entire LHADTH community. police codes Can I have a show of hands (either or both) in favour? Tags: discrimination police codes , Equality
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I’m police codes proud left and fully identify. However, I can use my right hand for some things. I think it’s because when I was younger, I was made to feel like an abnormal freak so to fit in, I tried to publicly be right handed. But as an older person police codes I’m comfortable police codes with my identity, I no longer hide from who I am. As for ADs I’m uncomfortable with them going back and fourth. I feel like it’s police codes a convenience thing for them. I don’t understand TransHanders but I support their right not to identify.
I’m only surprised that the Catholic Church police codes hasn’t made being left-handed police codes a mortal sin, and a sure indication of demonic possession. Writing with the left rather than the right hand is invariably police codes the criterion used to evaluate whether a person is left-handed. But it’s a lot more complicated than that.
Well, I’ve put the directly quoted phrase “the 22nd annual celebration of lefthanders superiority” into google, and the references which come up all seem to relate back to this article; none of them go to the website of the Left Handers Club which seems to be a modest sort of organisation merely trying to get small scale practical solutions to some of the problems encountered by the lefthanded and not, as far as I can see, asserting their “superiority” over the righthanded majority.
And people who use their feet, Damien? What of them? Still invisible police codes to the wider community, forced to foot the bill of discrimination, toe-ing police codes the line of conformity, down at heel, the sole bearers of this stigma that attaches to their orientation like a bad smell, while they endure the sock-puppets of the ruling hegemony putting the boot it.
I pick up the pen with whichever hand is nearer and away I go. When I was learning Chinese I’d use two pens at once – writing the pinyin with my left hand and the characters police codes with my right. police codes It made perfect sense to me, but I was amazed how it creeped people out.
As an out and proud leftie, I demand that you give me (a) your name and