Ladies,
If you haven't seen this and live in the UK might I suggest that you take a few moments to review the links below?
Killers of transgender people to get longer sentences A Link to the BBC story which covers the change.
Home Office Transgender equality strategy
Equalities minister, Lynne Featherstone, announces the launch of the first ever transgender action plan. A brief You tube clip
Persephone
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Good News Story
It's good news that the Home Office is finally beginning to pull all of this together and I hope they will now put some weight behind it across all government departments. The comments from Ken Clarke (and therefore the MoJ) were also encouraging in respect of hate crimes against transgender and disability groups. That the strategy is a 'cradle to the grave' style approach surprised me in a very positive way. However, that being said some of the strategy is a little vague and aspirational in places and it does need to be seen in the conflicting context of another arm of the govt watering down elements of the PSED implementation in the name of being less prescriptive.
Still, it's really great to see all of this finally coming through. :-)
"Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
PSED?
Not being british but from across the channel what in Kales' name is PSED????
Sorry, force of habit.
Sorry, force of habit. PSED is Public Sector Equality Duty which requires public sector bodies to "consider all individuals when carrying out their day to day work – in shaping policy, in delivering services and in relation to their own employees. It requires public bodies to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity, and foster good relations between different people when carrying out their activities".
"Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Okay same rulebook as at my
Okay same rulebook as at my workplace(CS myself) then.
Think I would be more worried about the cuts into the training programmes for CS and similar (we do like our 'training' sessions). And if it's the same like over here, as long as there hasn't been an ordanance it's just air.
L
PS not forgetting general cuts into the 'white' (care, social, communnity, education, ...)side of everything
PSED
Public Sector Equality Duty, the baby of the Government Equalities Office (GEO), which is supposedly to do with human rights, although the same government which announces the transgender development programme, also would like to withdraw from the Human Rights Act and The European Court for Human Rights at Strasbourg.
One minor irritation, I hate the description trans people/men/women/community. I'm a woman not trans anything.
Angharad
Angharad
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trans people/men/women/community
Angharad, I do so get the feeling. Could live with it when I was still pre-op as an indication of a slight 'complication' that still needed fixing. But I'm a woman (... hear me roar).
L
I've said the same thing
I've said the same thing about the trans labels when I've given presentations on the topic. That being said, I can understand the need of government to have a label for the purposes of clear communication internally and externally. If someone can find an easy and clear alternative for achieving that without the label I'd support it.
"Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason. But no, no, John Hughes did not direct my life."
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
A bit bothered
I'll preface this by admitting I haven't had time to read all the links; however I'm a bit disturbed by the idea that certain types of criminals will be more harshly punished. It reminds me of the "hate crimes" charges here in the U.S. I've always considered murder a hate crime anyway, why should certain classes of it be automatically punished at a more severe level?
I can easily support harsher penalties for all forms of 1st degree murder, got no problems there. All in favor of capital punishment, too. But if you have two murders, one a husband beating his wife to death, the second a man beating a T-girl to death, how do you explain to the children of the dead wife that their loss is somehow less important than the death of the T-girl? There are numerous different groups that can be plugged into this, but all require justifying one murder as being somehow "worse" than the other. Either way somebody is dead, a unique person, an individual with dreams and goals is no longer living.
That's a line I'm not capable of drawing.
Karen J.
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