Twitter’s an alt-right cesspool.
I’m more surprised about trans people still being there than neo-Nazis.
Lia Thomas last competed nearly 3 years ago. So today, Trump is taking away $175 million from U Penn. Note that Harvard and Yale do not seem to be having funding revoked in an ex post facto manner for having had trans men compete on their men’s swim teams.
I don’t understand how people can support conversion therapy.
Ben Gibbons, now 38, says he needed years of therapy after an elder at his church forced him to make himself sick every time he had “impure thoughts”, in an attempt to change his sexuality.
It also broke down the different ways they had experienced these practices, with some experiencing more than one type.
- 17% said they’d experienced physical assault
- 12% said they’d experienced pseudo-scientific counselling sessions
- 15% said they’d been threatened with homelessness
- 10% said they’d experienced exorcisms
Results from Stonewall’s research suggest that 38% of trans and non-binary respondents had experienced physical assault in an attempt to alter their gender identity.
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because i believe the vast majority of people don’t even understand what the phrase means and when explained it is done in a benign way with double talk
John Oliver’s most recent episode (NSFW for language):
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Canadian researchers cave in to US requirements.
Canadian musician had to cancel his US tour because his visa was denied for being trans (Canada recognizes his gender).
Where I live, PP only provides informed consent GAC to adults, so this action would only result in adults losing care.
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UK continues to deny care to kids, refers parents who want to support their kids as potential dangers to their children, and is working on expanding denial of care to adults.
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Hungary, but something that some people in Trump’s orbit would love to have happen here:
It passed.
“Another step towards authoritarianism”? Hungary well past that line.
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UK, not US, but since there are other non-US news items here…
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It seems to be a 200 page hot mess of a ruling. I haven’t found a single source with all of the problems with it, but my understanding is that:
- They have decided that sex is binary. Not sure where intersex individuals fit in.
- They do not define biological sex, so that one cannot quibble with problems with the definition. In places, the ruling seems to imply that to be a woman you have to be able to give birth, but they carefully avoid saying that infertile women are not women.
- Trans women are not women so can be excluded from female spaces. And trans men can also be excluded from the same spaces because they are men.
- It is illegal to discriminate against someone for being a woman if you think that they are a woman. So trans women who pass explicitly have more protections than trans women who don’t pass, although presumably a defense attorney would argue that any trans woman who claims discrimination doesn’t pass.
And probably more that I don’t remember off the top of my head.
US related for once, albeit in the water is wet category:
Back to UK: Guidelines in response to the UK Supreme Court ruling that trans women are men and trans men are women have come out. They are fun:
- trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex
- in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men’s facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women’s facilities
In case you wonder what options this leaves for trans people,
- however where facilities are available to both men and women, trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use
The answer:
- where possible, mixed-sex toilet, washing or changing facilities in addition to sufficient single-sex facilities should be provided
- where toilet, washing or changing facilities are in lockable rooms (not cubicles) which are intended for the use of one person at a time, they can be used by either women or men
And despite the fact that surveys show that over 80% of cis lesbians in the UK support trans women, the 5 cis het men on the court, headed by an outspoken homophobe, have come up with their own definition of a lesbian.
Membership of an association of 25 or more people can be limited to men only or women only and can be limited to people who each have two protected characteristics. It can be, for example, for gay men only or lesbian women only. A women-only or lesbian-only association should not admit trans women (biological men), and a men-only or gay men-only association should not admit trans men (biological women).
Note that this isn’t saying the organization is allowed to exclude trans people, but that they have to do so, regardless of what the members want.
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Debated putting this elsewhere as her point is that it isn’t just a trans rights issue.
My time in secondary school is defined by holding in my wee. Perhaps yours was focused on sports. Maybe you made friends for life there. Your first relationship perhaps. Mine was defined by discomfort.
Now, aged 23, I use the women’s bathroom without a second thought. But as a teenager, when I knew there wasn’t a place to relieve myself, I just wouldn’t go out. I stopped going to PE because I had nowhere to change my clothes.
If trans women like me cannot use women’s bathrooms, they aren’t just going to start using the men’s. They will just stay at home. This is backed by research, with major impacts being found on trans people’s employment, education and social lives. Some have asked “how would anyone feel safe if a big transgender man had to start using the women’s bathroom?”, or “if a trans woman uses the men’s bathroom, it is her who is in real danger”. Both of these, though well intentioned, completely miss the point.
The nitty-gritty details are irrelevant when we are not having the same argument. If the law is used to remove trans people from bathrooms, changing facilities, or to access crisis services, then the law is not about reform. It is about the removal of trans people from public life.
The Trump administration has already removed funds for early childhood intervention and post-second-level education transition programmes for people with disabilities. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has supported bills denying anyone the right to an abortion, full stop. If my rights can be removed with the flick of a switch, who is stopping anyone from doing the same to yours? If rights can be removed overnight then they are not rights, they are merely illusions of safety.
What we must do now is turn our attention to the broader repercussions it has for all of our rights. For years now, groups funded and supported by millionaires and conservative super-groups have been growing more powerful. Conferences such as CPAC in the US have provided the platform for anti-trans leaders in the UK to rub shoulders with American news anchors who call for “transgenderism [to] be erased from public life entirely”, something described by civil-rights lawyers as “genocidal”.