The Honesty Conundrum

[battybattybats]

Uncompromising ethics are the bane of man.

Who said anything about uncompromising?
And your mentioning the word bane is going to have those who know me laughing a lot. As it's rather close to my birth-name.

Personally, I find this whole argument irrelevant because I reject the premise that there is an obligation for the CD to tell his partner in the first instance.

Wells ee that there is a really important point. The crucial IF at the very beginning! Unless that first IF is true then the rest ends up false. Which is a very valid interpretation of the idea!

So the ethics involved here is about how a decision was reached on whether to reveal the CD behavior. There is no obligation.

But aren't there reasons a person has a disclosure obligation? Like having an STD needing to be disclosed before sex?

Included in that decision making matrix, should be the moral issue of educating the public and tackling transphobia. However understandably private relationships will be prioritized.

But doesn't the gene found suggest that there is need to make the world more TG friendly for the sake of children and childrens children? Doesn't it make overcoming transphobia part of protecting our own familes (mine too, I still have cousins!)

Edit: for those concerned about harm to the children if parent is out, might I suggest we consider that some will experience this already anyway? That there are TS parents, Intersex parents like blogger Zoe Brain and TG kids too. Looking at TYFA's group for kids of TG parents might be an idea.