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And it bears repeating: I saw some insanely dumb as fuck take from Helen Lewis about America and blocked her because she was clearly an idiot. In 2017. Before I moved to the UK and before Trashfuture even existed. So I assume it's because my name didn't pass her terf group chat's background check
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Theres no one property that *is* "Biological Sex". Changing even one of the properties that make up the cluster is making concrete and real changes to your sex, and the act of transition makes profound changes to many of them. Trans men grow prostate tissue, women develop a hormonal cycle,
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This is also an astonishingly weak piece of reasoning: it's the Supreme Court version of 'we can always tell.' The problems 'the duty bearer' faces here are no different from the problems the duty bearer faces when confronted with gender non-conforming cis people.
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Helen Lewis told a commercial podcast I produced in 2018-2020 that she would cancel her appearance unless they fired me, and their response was to offer me the choice to delete my social media entirely and make a new email address for my client work with them, or quit
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What did I miss?
(I haven't read the ruling because I can't bring myself to).
2/2
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... but the analytical capacity of the majority, including on the Supreme Court, is handicapped not so much by prejudice as by what looks like arrogance.
Their ignorance of the effects of their privilege on their analysis makes them unable or unwilling to examine the realities of those without it.
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We will shortly make an announcement about renewing our organisational commitment to working for the trans community. We have already started hiring. We know, and they know, that trans people are right at the cutting edge of fascism. What we can do we will do.
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Yesterday I was emailed by a barrister: "In my network I have on average one trans suicide per month. Its devastating and a genoicde of a whole group of people."
Those in the trans community know this is true. Wes Streeting's vigorous attempts to suppress this reality is unforgiveable.
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What I have tried to show in this thread is some of the harmful practical effects on its analysis of the Supreme Court's ethically delegitimating decision to exclude all trans voices from its judgment on trans people's lives.
It is for the law (and I think we will see for trans people) a dark day.
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The real life consequences of this judgment are complicated and will need to wait another day and for someone with proper equalities expertise. The Supreme Court asserts it will not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people. But its analysis does not support the assertion.
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Another example of where the Supreme Court's reasoning leads it into lazy elision. The Supreme Court has forgotten - because it never thought to ask trans people - about the difference between trans people who pass and those who don't. This sentence only applies to those who pass.
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UKIP was a pretty slapstick affair... up until it wasn't.
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finger absolutely itching on the block button for any yanks trying to claim Italian food is mid or mentioning any regional style of pizza
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There's a real learned helplessness to a particular type of centre left operative. Like babe, you've been through more than one election now. Why is it a surprise that the media and public don't just play the game you want them to?
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what's stunning about this is that this is just new labour, it's just neal kinnock. It's just the same tired shit again. You could have published this, honestly even with the same name, any time since 1982.
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This is the fucking Kinnock agenda. This has been the entire agenda of labour my whole life and I'm 40.
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We can all see it’s comically awful lads. Just say it and then say “And of course people of good faith could never have predicted it would be cruel and stupid”. Nobody will believe that except for proper rubes, but it will at least be over more quickly.
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I appreciate we need to sculpt a narrative in which it’s all Sir Keir’s fault the new government is repellent, and the lads are entirely blameless for having spent years loudly shouting at the public about how excellent it is. I’m saying: can we skip this stage of fumbling with bra-straps and flies?
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Above all we're realists and we want to transform politics. This is why we're advocating for the same tired orthodoxies that labour has been advocating for, win or lose, since Neal Kinnock.