humanrightsvicky.bsky.social
Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever. Women = more than biology.
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I've never been "read" in the loos but now people will get specific targets for setups. It was those things I was raising in the Judiciary 3+ years ago due to risk of damaging law. Then I was indeed targeted: if you remove normal trans, then only the rapists they label trans remain in the public eye
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For my perspective it's just too much risk, having been targeted last year. It only needs one setup to get me caught in the loos then sued, with whatever shop or place let me in, for sexual harassment, to put me out of credible action.
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Hard labour or open prison? đ
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Could someone write TERF the musical?
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It does help to get others to laugh at them though. They hate that.
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What others tell him I assume, Tomm. Certainly not what it's like to be vaginally raped or assaulted as many trans @ bio women are. The benefits of muscles and male psychology make for powerful advantage:when women are attacked it's not based on chromosomes. Basic biology 101!
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There's a big age factor here: by the time any European Court of Human Rights case is worked through, even if I win, I'll be too old to return realistically. So the logic of "on the ground" resistance is more pressing for younger people willing to give a couple of decades as previous generations did
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My personal perspective havi g met and dealt with journos in most is that Guardian allows a range of views and a less tyrannical editorial regime so one needs to know the journo personally. Others do not. BBC similarly.
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"Waiter! There are eyes in my green salad." Madam, you have just two, the gentleman at the next table has a spider in his soup. We could only find seven eyes left in his bowl...
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6/ While McCloud remains professional, it is clear that she feels the emotional impact of seeing judges she worked with, who were kind and courteous to her in the past, sign off on a ruling which suggests they are quite willing to make trans people feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.
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5/ Being in a difficult position is one thing, but with this context itâs hard not to see the actions of Supreme Court Judges as hypocritical.
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4/ Analysis:
In her statement, McCloud expresses her gratitude to the Supreme Court for their service to the country, recognising that it can be very difficult to make decisions as a judge.
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2/ Trans judge @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social, who is bringing a challenge against the ruling to the European Court of Human Rights, shared details of conversations she had with the unnamed Supreme Court judge in an exclusive video for @wearequeeraf.com
www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
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1/ One of the judges who wrote the recent Supreme Court ruling on the definition of âa womanâ in the Equality Act was working on a policy about the treatment of trans judges in the judiciary before their promotion to the Supreme Court.
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Well... they could start using male officers to strip search women suspected of being tran.... oh, sorry they announced that two weeks ago....
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Sadly after the current judgment and policy, I expect that will change and "accuracy" will become the reverse (as its used in the Conservative amendment). Sigh.
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Must_do_some_work_now...
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NB thats not settled law, but I hope you see my point. Its nice to have a space to debate and also be challenged. Its welcome. "The legal debates have centered around whether cultural genocide can fit within the limits of the Conventionâs definition of genocide" says the book above....
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"Some tactics of cultural violence, such as persecution, may constitute a crime against humanity if they are widespread or systematic." oxfordre.com/internationa...
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... isnt a bad thing, but what is logically essential for Labour given their stance is far worse. It enables use of a State ID card on the spot, probably biometric, to verify U are trans, & would delete gender change recs for non-GRC trans, reversing sex. So anything 'jigsaw'-based is V.Dangerous.
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... So they cant work it out from DOB & name, and then they have to ascertain that Joe Bloggs is the same Joe Bloggs they have arrested.. or sacked. My worry is not that having some an existing basic list (which does not list old names either) ...
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I dont disagree: I am assuming this will be in the hands of ANY relevant body such as those who legally now have to segregate us according to Govt - eg employers not just prosecutors. Imagine I was stopped: my name is NOT on the GRC list yet I have a GRC....
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... a database which is built from the GRC list but with many other sources - otherwise people like me are missed since my name is not on the GRC list despite having a GRC. Even then, one still has to show that the person 'nicked' for being in the loo is the same person as the database.
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- but to actually be maximally malicious, & enable State authorities and 'legitimately interested bodies' such as employers or businesses to know who is trans and who is not (as is needed now for the current application of the SC decision by Govt) really needs ...
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I agree with that - its just that the scope for malicious use (with difficulty and in specific cases) was always there - one can always look for 'coincidenta' birth certificate with different name and sex, but same parents and birthday, even without access to the GRC list. (TBC)
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I read somewhere that 10-25% of UK citizens are entitled to Irish citizenship, immediately, so that really would put the size of the biggest estimate of the broadly trans UK population in the shade if they all arrived on the Stena ferry at Rosslare!
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.. however one option instead is for Irish Govt to shorten the wait time for being issued with an EU/Irish passport. For me it's 3 years but a bit longer for others. After that (If I wanted, which I won't since I love Ireland) our community can relocate itself anywhere in EU without govt action.
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That would need huge legal changes in the EU etc since a UK citizen isn't an 'immigrant' in the usual sense, & far more Irish citizens reside in the UK than even the biggest estimate of "trans" people. So a bigger threat to Ireland would be if Irish citizens voted with their feet and boycotted UK...
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Yup ;)
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Yes it probably would be! The case itself technically was aimed at about 8000 people, whose full change of sex under the GRA is still respected in Ireland. But accommodating everyone broadly trans (in a non-legal sense) would be quite a challenge. That said, many in T community have valuable skills.
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Sorry to go, but vast work to do to challenge all this legally, organise opposition at my end & support,as far as I can,desperate ppl contacting me. These convos were had in 2003/4 when I held the draft bill in my hands before it was public: weaponising it needs far more: intentional by design.
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Labour logically HAS to implement something of that sort despite cost etc if the law is to be effective. If they fail they will be hammered by press & others. Creation of such a register remains a threat worth resisting given nothing sufficient yet exists. GRC records not it, just modest part of it.
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There needs to be much more done, at scale and huge cost, with incompatible databases which currently don't link, before one gets to an enforcement database of the sort the tory amendment seeks. The present records don't suffice.
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... there is currently no register which enables the authorities, stopping me in the loo, to tell if the Mrs Smith in front of them is or is not trans or is same Smith as someone on that list.
It needs large project of jigsaw identification at cost. I've not said any data can't be used maliciously.
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The register doesn't list previous names. The separate reference to "forenames listed after registration" is where a parent changes their mind soon after birth, they have 12 months to do it. And since I changed name, search even that list and you won't find me.
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Like a cheap wine, I matured quickly and went sour at a young age!
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... & then you have the problem of non-UK people with non-UK birth certs... Creating a national & actually useful register is going to need more than the amendment proposed, probably cross correlation of other databases for every citizen, to find all trans in the haystack by brute force search.
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..records to trace trans people. It only keeps basic records so a copy GRC can be made if someone loses the original. I checked with the President of the Tribunal personally.
Hence creation of a trans register to show that this Kevin Jones) is actually the Bob Smith who changed sex is a hard task.
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Able to show that the Bob Smith now nabbed under suspicion of being a Bio-woman in the mens loos is the same Bob Smith in the birth register. Even more so if Bob changed his name later to Kevin Jones. The Register is not amended to be a living record. The Tribunal likewise just doesn't have the ....
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So in other words all there is is a record that someone now called Bob Smith had changed sex, (the GRC) and a normal birth cert showing Bob's male birth in 1976. Even by manually searching for a birth cert for same date and parents among the historic register you never are...
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So if you take a GRC (which proves that someone now called Bob changed sex on xx date and was born on my date but doesn't record old details) or if you take the new birth certificate, neither can be proved to relate to you (no birth cert is proof of ID)
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There's quite a lot of complexity in how the Births & deaths registers work & there was much effort back in 2003/4 to ensure that whilst it can be done, it's not a practical exercise to create a mass linkage database: people were alive to the risk. The GRC could be anyone's with the same name [ctd]
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... or if not he'll, at least one of my Hard Stares! The problem these people have is I'm not scared of them and have nothing left to lose. They should have engaged when I reached out to them about 3 years ago to open dialogue. I only offer once.
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My mum was Welsh. Had to learn to speak English in the 1930s when family emigrated to England!