Former judge Dr Victoria McCloud is planning to challenge the UK Supreme Court ruling at the European Court of Human Rights because she like many of us feel it impinges on her freedom and human rights. I support her and wish her well. It annoys me that the government could pass an act and then completely renege on it after twenty years of it sort of working, so they have very seriously affected my human rights and yet still take taxes off me. I would not pee on this government if it caught fire.
See attached link to BBC.
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Transgender Have Little Suppor
If one reads down to the bottom of that article it seems the LGB has dropped the T. It seems transgender is once again left behind because we are such a "tiny number" we are not worth considering as part of the human race.
Kate Barker, of the campaign group LGB Alliance, said: "The needs and wishes of a tiny number of trans women like Victoria McCloud cannot supersede the rights of 34 million women in the UK who need and deserve the privacy, dignity and safety of single-sex spaces."
Hugs Angharad
Barb
We are an elite minority and very few care what happens to us as long as we don't contaminate the rest of the human genome. Well guess what! What we are isn't catching it's built in at birth.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Remember,
LGB may include TerFs who want acceptance while denying any to us. We are no threat to cisgendered women, many of us are many years post op, so in what way are we threatening. History has shown we receive more violence than we offer and are thus more vulnerable than cisgender women. I think this is still a rightwing accusation through the media which nonsensical and which spread from the US. I am beginning to think the Republicans are the the American form of the Nazi party, pointing fingers and persecuting minorities.
Angharad
To be fair, that comment is
To be fair, that comment is gold... "A tiny minority."
So.. all this fuss for a 'TINY MINORITY' it kinda traps them for the fuss they're making.
I like Turtles.
With Denial One May Ignore What Doesn't Fit
They refused to listen to the over sixty years of medical research and science. They said intersex didn't factor in. I don't know how many of the other boy-girl gender blender research was presented but they rejected it all. Being more intelligent than God, they set themselves up as the ultimate authority based on their on ideology humans come in only two distinctive gender, perfect male and female. Thus by this decree basically they declared there could not be any birth defects only perfect humans.
The totally absurdity of this closed mind set boggles the mind. The very people who are supposed to weigh "all" data, all circumstances, all pros and cons going into the future from their judgement. If this is the cream of the crop of human intelligence...,, God any chance of getting a lift off this Big Blue Marble hurling though space?
Hugs Kit, get out the popcorn. I believe this is going to be a really long nightmare.
Barb
Doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, contractors, virtually every single trade, farmers, moms, dads, saving lives, changing lives, transgender was there, making lives better for many. Ladies, gentlemen, for such a small minority we made lives better for all those around us.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Some context
The LGB Alliance is a hate group, and designated as such by various international bodies such as the Lemkin Institute. Their membership is almost entirely cishet (and white). In court, under oath, they admitted that only 7% of their members are lesbian. They are also biphobic and ableist. They were pretending to be based in some anonymous office in London, but our regulatory body OffCom, um, accidentally replied in public to one of their complaints and gave out their real address, which is 55 Tufton Street. That is actually a hive of related bodies, all of whom are extreme right groups, such as the 'Taxpayers' Alliance', Migration Watch, Global Warming Policy Foundation, Civitas and any number of UKIP related groups. Basically, it is the UK equivalent of MAGA HQ..
There is another attack on our rights now surfacing, which is an amendment to a data bill. That will compel authorities to 'correct' all official records and ID documents to reflect sex recorded at birth.
All of this is clearly in contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights, as Victoria says.
Maya Forstater is unutterably vile, and is now campaigning for all trans health care to be made illegal as per her interpretation of the SC ruling. As I am rather high profile, she has personally attacked me several times, including trying to get me sacked.
WTF is wrong with these people?
I cannot get my head round the fact that some people hate us so much that they form national organisations solely for the purpose of hurting a group of people they don't even know. Are they no longer able to find spiders to pull the legs off or other insects to torture? Or do they just want bigger game to torment?
I cannot think of a more harmless minority than us. I don't include rapists in skirts as part of "us", but a trans woman is far more likely to be the victim than the perpetrator in any assault in public toilets... Forcing us into men's toilets is only going to make that worse, but - as others have said - wait until bearded transmen start using the ladies!
I was already aware that LGBA were specifically anti-trans, but assumed that they were mostly TERFs but did not know about their other "projects". Why do they even care that much? Not like any of us GAF about them other than them being self appointed enemies we need to defend against. I get the sports thing, but not the rest of it. The EHRC is a farce who should lose their charter or accreditation or whatever gives them their "authority".
Just after the SC ruling I emailed my (Labour) MP and two of our leading support groups. It's been nearly two weeks - guess how many replies I've had...? I might as well have saved my electrons :(
Alison
I had a reply from my MP (Lib Dem)
He was sympathetic but felt he couldn't do anything. The right is infiltrating everything and people don't seem to notice. If you asked if Reform voters would vote for Trump, I suspect most would say no but they continue to support the Poundland-Trump = Farage. The man is both a liar and scoundrel and should be in prison not parliament. How can people not see through his party as a load of pusilanimous toadies.
Angharad
This is why
I continue to do the work I have been doing for nearly two decades. I am heartbroken, but as Dallas says, 'Here I stand. I can do no other'. I can't hide, as they know who and where I am, and they are targeting me personally. What I can do is to be a visible victim. This too shall pass, as the haters lose their power to younger, more accepting folk. I just hope I get some 'me' time .
As for Deform voters for Trump. most, in my opinion, would say 'Yes please!!!!'