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Women who transitioned decades ago feel their safety and security has suddenly been removed

Last week’s supreme court ruling sent shock waves through the UK’s trans community.

The unanimous judgment said the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).

That feeling was compounded when Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is preparing new statutory guidance, said the judgment meant only biological women could use single-sex changing rooms and toilets.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 120 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I hate it when European countries play "who can emulate the US the fastest"

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 129 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

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.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 22 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I bet Rowling is ecstatic.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

She donated £70,000 to the people that pushed to pass this bill.

In the words of Pedro Pascal, she is indeed a "heinous loser"

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Her public celebration of the result was absolutely grotesque

collapsed inline mediaScreenshot of a Tweet by Rowling, replying to another Tweet by Rowling. The original Tweet has a photo of her smoking a cigar and holding a drink, sitting by the sea and staring smuggly at the camera, with the caption "I love it when a plan comes together". The reply Tweet compares people mistaking her cigar for a blunt to trans women, claiming the cigar might "identify as a blunt".

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Anyone speculate on why JKR is so anti-trans? Did something happen in her past that makes her so hateful on this issue?

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago

I am also so curious. Maybe money and the idea of “I just subjugate anyone that isn’t like me” is the answer? Notch went though similar stuff shirt he got “fuck you” money.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago

Well, UK birthed the US after all. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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[–] vzq@lemmy.world 40 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Good on you for leaving the EU with at that fuss about “human rights” and “rule of law”.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

You might be thinking of the Council of Europe, of which the UK is still a member (for now).

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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The Guardian shedding crocodile's tears? Boohoo, we spend years vilifying trans people and now look what happened...

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Would you prefer a more celebratory article? What's your arguement?

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 18 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] ReiRose@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

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?

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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 12 hours ago

Birth certificates are also a social construct and so they have no logical consequence to the question

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

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.

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