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Type: Disability Rights ×

This house supports self declaration for adults with conditions that do not currently have a biological test
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In the status quo, there are many illnesses and conditions (e.g. M.E., IBS, Chronic Pain, ADHD, Autism) that do not have a biological test but rather are diagnosed after often lengthy ruling out processes and at the discretion of the medical community. Self declaration is the process of claiming yourself to be someone having a disability, condition or neurodiversity."

Vienna IV 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-05-10
This house regrets the Spanish team getting exposed for their cheating.
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In the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, Spain won gold in intellectual disability basketball. However, it is riddled with controversy as the the team competing (barring 2 players that were eligible) were instructed by the coaching staff to fake their mental disability, meaning they were ineligible. This led to the team having their medals revoked, and many members of the coaching staff and the team being heavily fined and sentenced for fraud. This also led to the permanent removal of intellectual disability basketball as an event in the Paralympics.

Princeton Online World Schools Tournament · Grand Final · 2024-04-19
This House Would ban actors/actresses from portraying roles that differ from their protected characteristics (e.g., race, gender, disability etc...)
Princeton Online World Schools Tournament · Round 3 · 2024-04-19
This house believes that pop-culture portrayals of neurodivergence in South Korea has done more harm than good (e.g. Extraordinary Attorney Woo, The Good Doctor)
Infoslide

**Neurodivergence** refers to those psychology is non-standard, e.g. for reasons of mental health, mental disability, etc.

EDiS x KIDA Spring Rookie Tournament 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-04-01
This house, as a Squib, would choose to live in the Muggle world over the magical world
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In the Harry Potter universe, a Squib is a human who is born with at least one magical parent, but does not inherit magic from them. They are unable to practice magic, but can interact in magical society and see things that muggles can't, e.g. Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, etc. Squibs are rare and are looked down upon by some wizards, particularly pure-bloods.

Deree Invitational LXVII · Open Grand Final · 2024-04-01
That parent/guardian consent should not be required to enrol students in special classes
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Special Classes are an umbrella term for schools or classes for students with special needs. They receive extra support and funding and use an alternative curriculum. Parent/guardian consent is required for a student to be enrolled in a special class.

University of Sydney Union Open 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-03-03
This house, as the parent, would send their children to be educated in a school whose means of communication is sign language
Zagreb Open · Round 4 · 2024-03-01
This House believes that governments should provide people living with disabilities with a direct stipend rather than state-owned disability services
Kampala Open 2024 · Open Semifinals · 2024-01-27
This house, as the disability justice movement, would weaponize messages of pity and able-bodied guilt to achieve social change
Western Canada BP Champs · Semifinals · 2024-01-13
This house would install disability inclusive classrooms in regular schools instead of establishing specialized schools for students with disabilities in primary and secondary education.
2023 KUDC x KIDA Fall Rookie Tournament · Round 1 · 2023-10-07
This House believes that governments should provide disabled people with a direct stipend rather than state-owned disability services
Australian British Parliamentary Debating Championships 2023 · Round 6 · 2023-09-08
This house believes that neurodiverse students should not be separated from mainstream students in the classroom
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Neurodiversity refers to the idea that a kid's brain functions differently from those of neurotypical children. It comes in many forms, such as learning disorders, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, or sensory processing issues.

Asia Junior Championship Summer 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-09-02
This house believes that neurodiverse students should not be separated from mainstream students in the classroom
Asia Junior Championship Summer 2023 · U12 Semifinals · 2023-09-02
This House Would only provide state pensions to those mentally or physically unable to work
Black Sea European Universites Debating Championships 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-08-21
C. This house believes that neurodivergence advocates should aggressively prioritize the similarities with neurotypical society rather than the differences in their advocacy (e.g. "autistic people having "similar emotional bandwidth and empathy" rather than "wider big picture thinking skills" compared to most neurotypicals)
Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-08-12
This house believes that Yin and Yang should be sentenced to jail.
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Yin and Yang are conjoined twins. Yin, commits a heinous crime where he kills an innocent woman. Yang does everything to convince not do to this and does his best stop Yin, but fails.

Rahat Fundraiser Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Open Grand Finals · 2023-08-04
This house believes that professionals and disability activists should heavily prioritize the practices and narratives derived from the medical as opposed to the social model.
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The medical model refers to the set of beliefs and practices that view the person with a disability as one who medically suffered an impairment which is the primary cause of their limited functioning i.e. a blind person lacks eyesight so they aren’t “fully functional”. The social model says that the cause of limited functioning is due to the social construct of normality and that by changing the environment people with disabilities can be seen as “fully functional” i.e. blindness is a part of who they are. Professionals and disability activists include doctors, social workers, charities, teachers

Glasgow Ancients 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-04-07
That we should allow gene editing to prevent illness and disability.
Monash Open 2023 · ESL Grand Final · 2023-04-01
This house as Pigward WoodSwine Would release the vaccine to the world
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Pigward WoodSwine is a below average pharmaceutical scientist working on a vaccine to prevent all life-threatening illnesses and until this point has been unsuccessful. One night in his Manchester flat he gets black out drunk and does 'a lot' of drugs, when he wakes the next morning he finds that he has synthesised a drug which is 100% effective at making a person immune to life threatening illness, however upon further testing they discover 20% of people who take the vaccine have their ability to speak permanently replaced with uncontrollable Pig-like 'Oinks'. Pigward has no recollection of the night before and has no idea how he created the drug however he does have the ability to replicate the vaccine without modifying the formula. Pigward later names the vaccine the 'Properly Infectious Great And Intense Disease Serum’.

Severn Cup · Grand Final · 2023-03-26
This House regrets the increasing trend of popular shows featuring neurodivergence as the central theme.
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Neurodivergence refers to those whose psychology is non standard, e.g. for reasons of mental healThis house, mental disability, etc. For example The Joker, A Beautiful Mind, Forrest Gump...

Paris World Schools Championship 2023 · 1 · 2023-02-17