theusernamehere.bsky.social
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Think it’s @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Yawn. Have a block troll.
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Did your parents never tell you “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything”. What a rude ill informed person you are.
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How to say “I haven’t read the guidance” without saying you haven’t read the guidance
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission did, for starters.
Go educate yourself before you start trying to troll
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I still worry the inevitable (and quite right appeals to the ECHR) will be weaponised to neatly combine the anti trans and anti EHCR strands of right wing politics and progress the EHCR agenda. Especially under a possible Reform government.
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Aha. Autistic people are able to simultaneously be bigots and unable to know their own minds about being trans.
Fed up with autism being used as an excuse for everything from being a bigot to a murderer. I’m autistic but that doesn’t give me a free pass to be a twat.
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It does and it doesn’t.
The vitriolic hatred pushed by a small number of well funded organisations (and amplified by the media) of a tiny number of people already hugely discriminated against should be opposed.
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You’re a journalist…read the words I wrote. Scientists testing evidence and challenging hypotheses is totally distinct from forming a personal opinion of what you think the science says.
(Notably, if you actually read the science, you’d find sex is a very difficult thing to define)
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Disagreement that trans people are people and have basic human rights like being allowed to pee in peace is absolutely bigotry.
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Allowing people to form personal opinions on “the science”…The Nazis were good at that. And the “scientists” “proving” Black people were inferior.
You’re in good company with your white male privilege of both sideism and doubtless also whataboutery.
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A very important figure, but he was gay, not trans. He was forced to have oestrogen injections to chemically castrate him to avoid imprisonment.
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That was my point. With the BBC it’s very counter intuitive because why would you want more negative media coverage. Leaving aside their policies, Labour are pretty incompetent at governing.
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One thing the tories were very competent at was putting supporters into senior institutional roles. Labour has failed to address this - EHRC and BBC to name two.
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Have you talked to your rep? They’ll probably be able to pull the instruction to pieces. Assuming, of course, they are supportive, which is always a gamble sadly.
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Nothing in the weekly NHS England emails and from the local grapevine trusts have ranged from very supportive statements to “we await guidance”. Are you in a union?
There is a weekly NHS England led Teams meeting for trans staff/allies with senior representatives on it which might be worth joining?
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I think it’s a shame not to include preferred name, pronouns, titles as the ways to record this are currently inadequate and mean it’s easy to accidentally use the wrong info (If people aren’t ready to change details officially).
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Like it!
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Yes, I imagine if self ID countries were having lots of difficulties the GCs would be shouting about it. But would be nice to be able to point to studies showing self ID hadn’t caused any of the potential issues the GCs dream up
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Has anyone published on the results of self ID in other European countries? Is there data to attack the “self ID will destroy the world” narratives from the GCs in the UK/USA?
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SHOCK NEWS Pope has values consistent with Christianity and not with MAGA fundamentalism pretending to be Christianity
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No. It started in the Lords and is finished there. This is pretty much the last stage.
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Yep, that would work as well.
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It was a well known case back in the day. Thanks to Press for Change, it was overcome with the GRA. The recent Supreme Court judgement is this century’s Corbett vs Corbett. Hopefully it won’t take as long to overturn.
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On the other hand, trans men currently rely on manual processes at individual practices to ensure invites for cervical/breast screening.
The NHS probably does need to record birth and current gender for these sorts of reasons, but there needs to be assurances about access to the birth sex field.
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It’s fairly incoherent but I guess it might. The NHS can only record one gender identifier (which can currently be changed on demand). If the amendment forced this to be changed to birth sex, trans women wouldn’t be called for breast screening. 1/2
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I agree with you, but there is currently an issue with screening recalls for trans men which rely on the person remembering or GP practices having robust (but manual) systems in place.
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Amusingly in their flag shagging ecstasy, Reform appear to have also banned county flags flying on county hall.
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This is the Grampian branch proposing a motion at the national conference. So would be national policy if adopted.
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They are the region that have proposed the motion.
The Grampian one is the disturbing one here
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Populists are generally incompetent, at least judging by Trump and Johnson. In the case that is advantageous, in others it is harmful
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The Tories liked to shout about it and proposed a UK Bill of Rights for years but never actually did anything because they knew neither were actually doable.
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I think/hope leaving the EHCR would be a step too far for Starmer - a human rights lawyer - and someone who will be all too familiar with the difficulties that would create in Northern Ireland in particular.
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Who does that leave as Equalities Minister? Will be of critical importance in the next few months as they will have to agree the full EHRC guidance.
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We’ve seen their response (and their increasingly transphobic rhetoric before the judgement). They are pleased about the “clarity” of the judgement, have apologised for previous more supportive views and are supporting the EHRC guidance.
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He’s the son of a man who had two children with the step daughter he brought up since the age of 4. Musk himself has some very very weird ideas about sex and relationships. Not surprising he has programmed them into a computer that will do what he tells it.
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Your party is obsessed with trying to beat Reform by copying all their policies. That lets them set the agenda. You’ll never out-Reform Reform.
Start making a case for positive change and standing up to Trump and his followers like the Greens, LDs and Canada. That’s popular and fairer.
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Time to move to NI?
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The Overton window has shifted further and further right, and Labour has followed. If they listen to the lessons of Canada and Australia, it’s that it’s possible to make a positive anti populist/anti Trump case and win. Farage is very vulnerable on many points but Labour can’t land the blows.
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Labour won big because the right wing vote (for the first time in forever) was split. Whether we are now seeing the end of the Tories remains to be seen, that would create a new right wing force that gets to be the insurgent promising change. 1/2
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I think, unfortunately, that’s very possible. On balance I think if you’re in a position to apply for a GRC it’s probably a good idea to do so. Currently at least it means there is no practical way for anyone to demand any document that would show a trans history.
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I swing between being glad I’ve got a GRC and now being worried I’m on a list.
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HMRC certainly have records. As do DBS. Whether DVLA and the passport office do I don’t know.
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I don’t want to credit the GCs with too much deep planning ability. But if it’s not possible to change official docs then applying for a GRC gets much harder. Maybe that’s the point.
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Of course, they could just put birth gender on everything, as the US is trying to do with passports.
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I’ve got it now. If you have a GRC, both gender at birth and gender now will be on record. If you don’t, only birth gender will be on record. So potentially people with a GRC will be able to have official docs with GRC gender on whilst everyone else will be forced to have birth gender.
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I’m not sure they’ve thought that far. I think they more want a public record of both gender assigned at birth and gender now. Then the state can do what it wants with it.
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Ah I’m with you now. Yes I guess it’s possible they would use GRC sex if you gave a GRC. That would obviously suck as it’s been policy for decades to allow quite easy changes to passports and DVLA