I hate it when European countries play "who can emulate the US the fastest"
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Nah, that doesn't apply in this case. The UK is a world leader in transphobia, acting not because the US does things, but because they're entirely transphobic on their own.
Surprise, it's religious history.
Good on you for leaving the EU with at that fuss about “human rights” and “rule of law”.
You might be thinking of the Council of Europe, of which the UK is still a member (for now).
Yeah, I got the ECHR and ECJ mixed up.
The Guardian shedding crocodile's tears? Boohoo, we spend years vilifying trans people and now look what happened...
Would you prefer a more celebratory article? What's your arguement?
The argument is that the guardian is a fucking piece of shit terf rag that platforms the worst of the worst while pretending to be left of center.
And any occasion is a good occasion to remind them to do better.
passing of the Gender Recognition Act in 2004, which allowed trans people to change gender on their birth certificate
this doesn’t make sense to me, if gender is a social construct then why is it on the birth certificate? shouldn’t it be the sex that’s on the certificate and can’t be changed?
A better question is, why is the government administering it in the first place?
There should be no laws that depend on either gender or sex, so knowing it does not help the government fulfill its obligations. Therefore it is not covered by the public interest and official authority grounds of the GDPR.
There should be no laws that depend on either gender or sex
Ideally, maybe. In a future perfect society. But let's remember that the court case that triggered this was about whether trans women count as women for the purposes of meeting laws that require gender quotas. Quotas that most of us should support because of their importance in combatting existing gender inequalities.
Agreed. The only people that really need to know your biological sex are your doctor and people you're seeking (sexual) relationships with.
For believing that the government has no business with my genitals and also believing that there's nothing inherently wrong with trans people...does that make me a trans inclusionary radical feminist?
There should be no laws that depend on either gender or sex
Lol.
Birth certificates are also a social construct and so they have no logical consequence to the question
When you transition, you in a very literal way change your sex. Chromosomes do very very little for sex differentiation. All a Y chromosome, or specifically the SRY gene, does is tell the gonads to develop into testes. From there on, everything is hormonal. Biological sex is largely determined by hormones, not genetics.
And moreover, very few ever actually have their chromosomes tested. If you think sex is chromosomal, well, you don't actually know your own sex.