UK officially fucks Trans kids over

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  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    Louise, that’s the best summary of the subject I’ve seen. Very lucid and puts “Cancel Culture” in its place.
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    edited May 7
    One of Mrs RR's evan friends sent us this link:
    Content warning for extreme anti-trans petition- L
    https:// citizengo.org/en-gb/fm/17780-Stop-BBC-Trans-Indoctrination-of-Children?
    [ link deliberately broken by host to keep far right content more than a single click away- if you want to see reconstruct link]
    utm_content=B&utm_medium=shared&utm_campaign=tyemail&utm_source=wa
    Does any shipmate know anything about this nonsense?
    Ugh!!!!!
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    As a tangent , who are 'CitizenGo'?
  • LouiseLouise Epiphanies Host
    edited May 7
    They seem to be an extremely nasty far-right group based in Spain - I think I might need to break that link as spoilering it still means we're linking to a far- right campaign

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CitizenGO

    Sorry, will check with admin that this is what they'd like done.
    L
    Epiphanies Host
  • RockyRogerRockyRoger Shipmate
    edited May 9
    When I have a chance, I shall share this wonderful prayer with the lady who sent us that horrid link:
    https://www.ordinaryoffice.org/morning-prayer

    I trust there are no problems with this link. To put my own distresswith this lady in context, my daughter has just come out as gay and our middle grandaughter's long term partner is a lovely creative person who is transgender. And suffers for this.
    Lord, have mercy.
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    Ah, fuck. The EHRC guidance has been released and it's awful. Kyrie eleison. :(
  • Jane RJane R Shipmate
    So you're not supposed to challenge anyone based on their appearance unless your 'concerns' are 'legitimate'? Dear God. Here come the gender police. 🤬😭😱
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    Jane R wrote: »
    So you're not supposed to challenge anyone based on their appearance unless your 'concerns' are 'legitimate'? Dear God. Here come the gender police. 🤬😭😱

    No doubt based on the concept of the “reasonable man”!

  • LouiseLouise Epiphanies Host
    edited May 21
    This is horrible for trans folk and will result, among other things, in violent men barging into toilets because they think they've clocked someone trans going into the ladies loos.

    And this happened under a Labour government! And Scotland and Wales which were offered this kind of hate by Tories, Labour and Reform and just rejected it at our elections cant legislate to stop it.

    Coverage from trans writers tends to take a while to come out because they're generally with overstretched and shoestring funded organisations, but here's TransActual's current statement.

    https://transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/05/21/updated-statement-on-the-new-code-of-practice/
    The newly published EHRC Code of Practice leaves trans people in the UK today with less rights than they had prior to last year’s Supreme Court ruling.

    Not only does this new guidance fail to protect the rights and dignity of transgender people, but appears to have weakened protections for the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. Rather than engage with our community with respect, the Government has instead withheld publishing its new Code of Practice until as late as possible.

    TransActual will continue to fight for equal access to public life for all trans people, and will publish our full thoughts on the new Code once we have had the time to properly scrutinise it – something that the Government seems keen to avoid

    ( There was no shortage of stuff from well-funded hate organisations and their fellow travellers- which tells its own story)

  • ThunderBunkThunderBunk Shipmate
    It's appalling. Solidarity to trans people forced to live under this regime of bureaucratic terror.
  • PomonaPomona Shipmate
    As a trans person I think that disobeying the guidance where possible is important - I do think that some trans people have shot themselves in the foot by obeying in advance. I don't mean that as a criticism - especially with autistic people I understand the impulse to follow the rules - but civil disobedience is an important part of resistance. Organisations like churches and schools etc refusing to bar trans people from their correct bathrooms etc are part of that resistance too. You don't fight back by laying down and obeying.
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