This is Not Professional Advice

And we are not their doctors

I am not a doctor, a lawyer, or an accountant.

One may be advised to say that, when you’re giving advice that touches on weighty matters that people usually consult credentialed professionals for, to make sure no one can sue you for giving advice that gets them in trouble if they follow it.

If someone is a doctor, lawyer, or accountant, giving advice in public, sometimes they make the point that they are not your doctor, your lawyer, or your accountant, and their general comments are not meant to be taken as contracted professional advice for your particular situation they don’t know the details of.

However, I don’t need any professional qualification to observe the laws and customs of my society and take note of things that also aren’t the kind of professional advice people ought to make weighty decisions on the basis of.

This occurred to me recently after I read on X about the German Bundestag’s debate over whether to refuse to acknowledge sex self-identification for the purposes of mil…