#gender reform act

[lavenderlyncis]

The UK was always destined to fall, I'm just glad that it's happening within my lifetime

[turnaboutstevie]

hey, UK trans allies, do you have a minute?

There's a new petition asking the government to add an amendment to the GRA, allowing the families of trans people to get a posthumous GRC for their deceased trans family members, and allowing terminally ill trans people to get a GRC, so they can be buried with the dignity they deserve.

I don't have my hopes up (we all know the governments track record) but I also think that anything is worth a shot. Trans people deserve dignity in death, too.

(If you're not from the UK, please share it! Don't listen to people who tell you to use a fake postcode to sign- even one fake signature could void the whole petition. Please don't take that risk <3)

[fayrobertsuk]

X Marks the Spot

Okay, UK Citizens, we're giving this another go. Sign and/ or share, please (if you're not UK-based, PLEASE share). It went pretty much as you'd expect last time: decent public support, got to debate stage, some lovely speeches from supportive MPs, then… random shit about women's prisons and sports from people unwilling to do anything to address the actual issues in prisons and gendered sports. 🙄

So behold, we're going to try again to join the increasing numbers of countries out there who allow an X or similar on the passports and driving licences of nonbinary folk.

(And we'll keep bloody trying until the UK rejoins the 21st Century.)

[toadundercoldstone]

Despite living in England, I have been incredibly invested in the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform Bill for the past few months because to me, it represented UK politics moving forward from the time of medical diagnosis of dysphoria, 10 year waiting lists and the like.

I thought that considering that the bill passed in Scotland with a solid majority, and they had taken steps to make it as difficult as possible for the uk to intervene without causing issues, that we were smooth sailing and we were finally seeing some progress on terf island.

I even foolishly allowed myself to believe that the rest if the UK would follow along eventually, and that it marked the beginning of self-reporting your gender without medical intervention - as it is in many other countries.

Section 35 (follow the link below for a better explanation) is part of the Scotland Act 1998 that allows the scottish secretary by power of the UK government to veto any bill within four weeks of its passing if there are reasonable grounds to believe either:

The bill is incompatible with the UK’s international obligations or jeopardises national defence.

The bill has adverse effects on policy areas that are the responsibility of the UK government.

IT HAS NEVER BEEN USED UNTIL TODAY

Parliament is claiming that the scottish bill has “passed the adverse effects test” and has used section 35 to stop it from coming into effect, continuing to place the lives of trans people in danger and furthering tensions surrounding Scottish independence, making claims about “same sex schools” and “sex equality”.

FM Nicola Sturgeon has called it a blatant attack on scottish independence and has promised to fight against this situation. She has also accused the UK government of using trans people as a weapon in the debate of scottish independence, and I am inclined to agree with her.

As angry and disappointed as I am, I wish I could say I was surprised. terf island continues to terf and trans people continue to die as sufferers of violent crime, economic disparity and suicide. Spread love, check in with your friends, fight your battles until we don’t have to anymore.

I love all you trans people in scotland and the uk and the world and I wish you the best <3

[sarcasmandships]

someone should tell Westminster that if a cis man wants to attack a woman he doesn’t need to pretend to be trans he just needs to join the met police cos then he can rape and murder women with their protection

[isekai-ed]

Ōoku: The Inner Chambers was painfully realistic in its depiction of patriarchy, I can't even be mad at it properly

[rockets-and-raccoons]

I love this idea that now that the GRA Reform has passed that suddenly sexual predators will enter women's public toilets, as if there was some magical barrier stopping them from entering before this reform was published.

Do y'all know just how many times I've seen cis-men in women only public toilets. I lost count before I was even in high school.

Nothing stops anyone from entering whatever toilet they want. This legislation does not affect the rights of women in the slightest.

If you're worried about sexual predators entering public toilets, then I hate to tell you this, but literally nothing has ever stopped them from doing so before. A door with a gendered sign on it is still just a fucking door. It's not some magical forcefield.

Sexual predators have always been capable of entering women only spaces. Claiming that this legislation is the reason they are able to do so is ridiculous. Maybe reevaluate why you think like this.

The people benefitting from this, are transmen and transwomen.

Take your terf rhetoric and ram it up yer arse

[selkies-world]

Gotta love finding out you might lose your rights via a news article while you're eating your supper & have to hold your shit together so you don't cry into your toast

[lavenderlyncis]

Love how transphobes and anti-indpendence people are trying to make us seem like some evil nationalists that only want independence because we're xenophobic or something

As if England isn't one of the most nationalist, xenophobic and racist countries in the world. As if there isn't a lot of fucking xenophobia towards scottish people in England. As if England isn't literally trying to block a law to help trans people

Sorry we don't want you blocking our laws just because you are tories and terfs

[feckcops]

Labour has shown great courage in the past on LGBTQ+ rights. Why won’t it do the same for trans people now?

“Dodds describes the Scottish government’s attempt to introduce self-ID – which was blocked by Westminster – as ‘cavalier’. This is both disingenuous and inaccurate. The gender recognition reform bill in Scotland was supported by the Scottish Labour Party and a majority of Scottish MSPs, after a six-year process involving two public consultation exercises.

“Labour promises to change the demeaning, intrusive process that the current Gender Recognition Act (GRA) requires, but Dodds ... [says] that retaining medical involvement ‘upholds legitimacy of applications and confidence in the system’. Why, trans people will ask, can they still not be trusted when they say who they are? And why do non-binary people not get a mention?

“Discussion of the need to ‘protect women and girls from predators’ is reminiscent of the kind of things written about gay people in the dark days of Section 28 in the 1980s. In failing to make clear (as I hope she means) that she is referring to predatory men, not trans people, Dodds feeds those scaremongering tropes. There is no mention of the fact that possessing a gender-recognition certificate is not a key to access single-sex spaces. When were you last asked for a birth certificate at a toilet or changing-room door?

“The fence-sitting is clearest when in one breath Dodds talks about ‘biological women’ and ‘providing legal clarity for the providers of single-sex services’ (both battle cries of those who seek to exclude trans people), followed in the next breath by the claim that trans people will be ‘accepted, without exception’ (a Stonewall slogan). Advances in equality don’t come by splitting the difference between those who seek to advance rights and those who want them reduced. That just leads to stagnation.”

[smiley-asylum]

Rishi Sunak can take a flying fuck at a donut.

Leave our Trans peoples alone ya prick.

[diah-the-demon]

How funny would it be if the place jkr lives in becomes split politically because of trans rights fight 💀 god i hope it does and i hope the trans folks win

i mean im pretty sure we're already winning its just a slow battle

[jupiae]

I hate the fact that I'm stuck in England for at least four years. My dudes I just want rights. Is that so much to ask for.

[le-queer-deer]

Can we get a big fuck you in chat to the English Prime Minister for blocking the Scottish gender recognition reform act

[rockets-and-raccoons]

Scotland's Gender Recognition Reform Act just passed and I'm so, so thrilled about this!