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A quote from Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davy MP:
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It’s time for this years Rainbow Map of Europe
https://rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/
The United Kingdom dropped to 22nd in the ranking, its lowest position ever. The UK was ranked number 1 in 2015 with 86 points. Points were deducted following a Supreme Court ruling that defines the terms “woman”, “man”, and “sex” strictly based on “biological sex”. As a result, legal gender recognition (LGR) is no longer fully effective: regardless of obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), a person will still be treated as their sex assigned at birth in various areas of public life. LGR should enable a person to legally function and be recognised in their affirmed gender in all areas of life; this is no longer the case in the UK. The ruling, along with interim guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), means that individuals with a GRC are not fully recognised as their affirmed gender in important legal contexts. (See full reasoning here.)
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Iceland sounds pretty good.
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Well you’re still better than Belarus. So you’ve got that at least.
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Not for transgender issues. The UK is only better than Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Hungary and Russia in that category.
ETA:
Monaco and San Marino are also worse, but selecting them on the map is difficult.
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“[A]fter learning that Judge Moore fully retired, the client filed a new uncontested [name-change] application in 2024, which the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas approved earlier this month [May],” Loney wrote in an email. “We are currently evaluating what, if any, impact this terrific development has on our clients’ ongoing [state Supreme Court] appeal from the offensive decisions made on their original application.”
What that should do is render the case before appeal moot, and the state Supreme Court should dismiss the appeal as such. However, since this is a dispute that could arise again, the state Supreme Court could choose to hear the case anyway, just as the US Supreme Court heard Roe v Wade well after that specific case was rendered moot by Roe giving birth. What’s the makeup of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court? How do you think they’d rule on this?
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I think the current court would rule against the initial ruling.
It’s currently a 5 to 2 Dem advantage. And the Dem judges have supported LGBT rights. Certainly the ones from Philly will be supportive.
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Well I hope they go ahead and hear the case, then, so a precedent can be set.
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There’s so many transphobes who were pulling this shit. Here’s hoping they all get what they deserve.
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Had a really distressing conversation with my trans youngest last night. She is having some (understandably) serious difficulty dealing with the bullshit coming down the pike just now. Wound up with “You can get sad, or you can get pissed. I find anger is much more motivating than sadness.” She looked at me and said, “So it’s OK to be mad?” Holy shit, YES!!! Get mad! Get furious! These assholes are dismantling our country! You should be raging! We should all be raging! I fucking know I am.
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We should all be more like Miss Piggy in these trying times…
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This is even more fucked up than it sounds on the surface. This asshole “… judge reached a verdict that Title VII only protects ‘firing someone simply for being homosexual or transgender,’ but that it does not protect transgender or gay people from ‘harassment’ …” So he’s saying they can’t fire you outright, but they can make your place of employment a living hell until you quit. I swear you couldn’t write this kind of cartoonish evil into a novel because it just wouldn’t be believable.
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