A friend has pointed out that Britain is still subject to the European Court of Human Rights (it is separate from the EU) and that they will take a very negative view of todays ruling, but that will take time. Britain could withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights, but they really don’t want to do that as the Good Friday Agreement is dependent on it. Are the TERs so dedicated to transphobia that they would risk a return of IRA bombings? Maybe, but they would lose public support.
On the surface you would think so, but I’d speculate that a cis lesbian married to a trans lesbian (now been deemed a man by the UK) will find themselves discriminated against in yet new and exciting ways. Well, no, they’re neither new nor exciting, but I promise the relationship will be subject to all kinds of discrimination that is suddenly not covered by any law specifically because it is considered “straight” in the eye’s of the law.
If I were paranoid I might consider this a wedge purposefully driven between the LGB and T portions of the community.
Yeah, shit can turn so fast on these basic human rights issues. If the economy goes south for the majority of working folks, then the far right starts laying blame in the usual places (Jews, the LGBQT+ community, immigrants, POC, etc), and building up their base of power, then they pull everything as far to the right as they can get it… neo-liberalism has fucked so much of our shit up since the end of the cold war…
That depends on who you ask, doesn’t it? Not to get into a religious debate but I think there are reasons to question that for instance TERFs go anywhere near heaven.
Oh I suspect that they’d arrive stay just long enough to be shown that god is a genderless being, then get sent down stairs to hang out with Hitler and other bigoted and murderous scums.
Representative Erika Hilton reports that when applying for an entry visa for the United States, her gender was changed to male, contrary to another document from 2023, issued during the Biden admnistration, that certifies her gender as female. Outraged, Ms. Hilton says she will challenge the Trump administration at the UN, demanding respect for documents issued by sovereign nations.
On her Bluesky social media page, Ms. Hilton stated:
"What worries me is that a country is ignoring official documents about its own citizens and changing them according to the narrative and desires of the President of the day to take away rights.
Because this will not stop with us or affect only trans people; the list of targets for these people is immense.
And it was already being written when the first slave was freed, when the first woman voted, when workers demanded the first salary increase, when indigenous people claimed the right to their own land, when a Latino tried to get back some of what was stolen from him.
This list of targets continues to grow, and is part of a global political agenda of hate, which also does not stop in the US.
But, here in Brazil, it is a political agenda of hate that we have already defeated once. And we will defeat it as many times as necessary."
Trans men are almost always ignored by these laws and statements. I wish more people would talk about this, especially when it comes to sports and bathrooms. Because these laws typically force trans men to compete as women, where they will absolutely have a competitive advantage, completely negating the claim that these laws are to protect women. And the bathroom laws would force trans men to use women’s restrooms, which negates the claim that these laws are to protect women. Not that trans men would present a danger to women in restrooms, but if you force them to use women’s restrooms, you’re going to get a lot of complaints about men using the women’s room.
Of course, the desired effect is just to make trans people disappear. They cannot exist in public. Period. (Same for not-sufficiently-typically-feminine presenting cis women and not-typically-masculine presenting cis men.) They are responding to the “clouds and boxes” problem by insisting that anyone who does not fit comfortably into these 2 particular boxes simply cease to exist.
“Fuck your single-sex spaces and fuck your Supreme Court. If I see you calling the police on a trans person in a public restroom I will personally flush your phone down the bog whilst pretending it’s Wes Streeting’s head.”
