My original blog by same name got accidentally deleted. By me. I’m doing my best getting things back together. I write power rangers stuff, original works, Batman related things, and I draw and animate and have a lot of ideas. Those ideas might not go anywhere but I generally place them here. I’ve got a master post of master posts, and it’s getting added to all the time so if you want to see something about my series or ideas, you should find them there if you can’t find it normally. I’m 30 and just chilling.
I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to
Among my acquaintances, I am one of the better bakers. Therefore I am “the one who bakes”. Gathering of the Dutch-Indo elders? I will produce a spekkoek with no less than twenty layers. Nephew’s special day? I will make his favorite; macarons filled with chocolate ganache. Teen wistfully wishes for a Minecraft cake? I gotchu fam.
No one ever said “she’s already baked a dessert once and we loved it, so obviously we won’t ask her to bake again; tell her to make spaghetti this time”.
(For reasons unclear to me, I seem unable to simply use the Tumblr link-to-post option here. So, please see below for the meat of Cheryl's message:)
One of the things that has protected trans rights in the UK over the past couple of years is that the Tories are too busy, and too cowardly, to actually repeal the Gender Recognition Act, even though many of their MPs very much want to get that done. The anti-trans lobby is unhappy about this, and is therefore taking matters into its own hands by taking legal action. Very soon, their case will reach the Supreme Court. Should they win, the consequences for trans people in the UK (and equality law more generally) will be catastrophic.
The Gender Recognition Act says, unambiguously:
Where a full gender recognition certificate is issued to a person, the person’s gender becomes for all purposes the acquired gender (so that, if the acquired gender is the male gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a man and, if it is the female gender, the person’s sex becomes that of a woman).
However, as I understand it, the argument that will be put before the Supreme Court is that allowing a trans woman to be treated as a woman is, de facto, discrimination against cisgender women, and therefore illegal under the Equality Act. As the Equality Act is a more recent piece of legislation, its provisions should supercede those of the GRA.
Hopefully it is obvious that, should this claim succeed, it will open the doors to equivalent claims such as, “letting Black people into my whites-only pub is discrimination against white people,” and “building a wheelchair ramp is discrimination against able-bodied people.” Thankfully such claims are less likely to pass the Supreme Court.
But the chances of this getting through are very high. And if it does, not only will the GRA be rendered useless, it will create a climate of fear in businesses all around the country. Because it will be possible for a business (or school, local authority, etc.) to be sued for discrimination if they inadvertently allow a trans woman to be treated as a woman. This will lead to a lot of proactive bans being issued at places like public toilets, gyms, clothing stores and so on. Most of the people caught by this will be gender-nonconforming cisgender women, because despite what the anti-trans lobby claims, they can’t always tell, and neither can anyone else.
...And once you've been stopped going into a women's room because you don't look (pretty) woman enough... well.
Another writer has been funding the less humane side of this argument. The people funding the non-humane side are short of funds to assist them making the less toxic side of the case.
Mom needed to go to the local Christian bookstore. It’s downtown and shares the same old building as the local occult bookstore. In between the two doors is the stairs to the apartments above each shop.
That has got to be an awkward closing at the end of the day. You shut your store and then go upstairs to your apartments connected to your stores across from each other.
Mom needed to go to the local Christian bookstore. It’s downtown and shares the same old building as the local occult bookstore. In between the two doors is the stairs to the apartments above each shop.
That has got to be an awkward closing at the end of the day. You shut your store and then go upstairs to your apartments connected to your stores across from each other.
There is so much more life to live when you stop constantly obsessing over who will think you're a bad person or not understand you
I am learning this in the tiniest bites but it pierces me deeply
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