Liz Truss is out. Gut says Rishi Sunak will replace her. Just as a reminder, Sunak made a previous campaign promise to end legal recognition of trans people, which means ending Equality Act protections and nullifying the GRA. 1/n https://t.co/J45uxkojZ3
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) October 20, 2022
If the UK's 2010 Equality Act doesn't cover trans women (as transphobes have said for years), how can trans people be removed from it (as transphobes now advocate for in 2023)?
This is really bleak. The head of the EHRC has called for totally gutting trans protections from the EA2010. This is a backdoor bathroom bill including for people with a GRC, basically would nullify the GRA. Would remove legal protections. Everything we've been saying they want https://t.co/3CXtqpzyUH
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 4, 2023
I can't get over how extreme and brazen it is
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 4, 2023
It's just like "we are going to take away equal pay protection from trans women π" pic.twitter.com/o6rQEQxaAp
Worthless to point out now, but every single Gender Critical person who praises the idea of removing trans women from the Equality Act 2010 is a liar
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 4, 2023
For years they've lied and said that trans women aren't covered by it today. They have known the whole time
Do you think that the prominent Gender Critical people sat down and looked each other in the eye and said "The Equality Act 2010 doesn't say what we want, but it would be in our interest to lie and pretend it does"? Or do you think they just had an unspoken understanding?
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 4, 2023
The government's Equality and Human Rights Commission is really worried about the biological lady checking procedure at biological lady book clubs. You know - that thing we all do where we have to show our birth certificates before chatting shit about Richard Osman's latest pic.twitter.com/jr2ZPqNO7m
— Tabitha McIntosh (@TabitaSurge) April 4, 2023
The ‘biological book club’ part of that EHCR letter, as much as it seems absurd, is actually the most chilling part.
— Based Brenda π³️ππ³️⚧️ (they/them) (@SpillerOfTea) April 5, 2023
It completely discards the pretence that this was never about ‘safety’ or ‘protecting’ anyone, it’s just simple, prejudice-fuelled, exclusionary bigotry.
But the Gender Critical movement, the UK Gov and Brit media have turned it into something ugly. A disease. We’re pitched as monsters. A joke. And today the @EHRC - who are supposed to look after us - recommends trans apartheid for the UK.
— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) April 4, 2023
What gets me the most is that all the Gender Critical’s - from JK Rowling to Kemi Badenoch - know that none of these scare stories are true. That they are making things up. They KNOW there isn’t going to be a trans crimewave. But still they try to make the public scared of us.
— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) April 4, 2023
I don't do a lot of tweeting about trans rights these days, mostly I just retweet stuff when it's important, but this?
— Jay Hulme (@JayHulmePoet) April 4, 2023
This is bad. If this advice is accepted it would strip trans people of basic rights we've long fought to retain, and use a sneaky backdoor amendment to do so. https://t.co/CRsA3AER9a
This is just straightforwardly horrendous and transphobic. It effectively intends to reclassify trans women as men in dresses, who are treated as men for all legal purposes. This is against human rights norms. The EHRC is now a captured anti-trans think tank. https://t.co/uILeTfXsB2
— Jess O'Thomson ♿️ π³️⚧️ (@jessothomson) April 4, 2023
They're coming for abortion next you know.
— Vivian Wulf (@MxVivianWulf) April 4, 2023
All the gender criticals celebrating the EHRC's move today have all been part of a vile hate campaign that has established the UK wing of the anti-gender movement.
That movement wants the end of women's and LGBT rights.
They will try for gay marriage too.
— Vivian Wulf (@MxVivianWulf) April 4, 2023
They will try for discrimination protections for women too.
And that movement is itself the vanguard of global fascism.
Which is destroying your access to democracy and victimising asylum seekers and GRT folks here in the UK.
We’re reflecting on today's letter from the EHRC - more updates and actions soon.
— Gendered Intelligence (@Genderintell) April 4, 2023
Right now, what’s most important is to hold firm to our rights and to the truth. This letter has no statutory weight - that is, it doesn’t change the law.
Full statement: https://t.co/SqIndRSQmT pic.twitter.com/5k3Efh1HDD
Here is a gov petition to not remove trans people's rights from the Equality Act 2010
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 5, 2023
The gov responded saying they weren't going to change the EA2010 when it reached 10,000 signatures, but things have changed since. Let's get this to 100khttps://t.co/uJsPIJfEjL
Congratulations to everyone calling themselves a feminist who helped us get to this point. Let's hope that when the Biological Woman Finder General runs your karyotype analysis, he doesn't find out you're Unwomen pic.twitter.com/N9uUlMcEsV
— Tabitha McIntosh (@TabitaSurge) April 5, 2023
Black people do not have black on their birth cert and are still protected by the EA2010
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 6, 2023
Disabled people without a diagnosis or certificate are still protected by the EA2010
I do not have an Atheism Recognition Certificate yet am still protected under belief by the EA2010
The absolutely stupid "Gender Critical" argument that you need to define me as a man in order to protect gay people is wrong because you don't need a legal value of a characteristic to be protected, and gay trans people face homophobia regardless of legal sex. Trivially nonsense
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 6, 2023
Well don’t worry I’m sure it will be evened out and soon I will need to, after a 3 yr wait, have a doctor ask me how I [redacted] before they issue me an official bisexual licence, at which point I will be able to experience homophobia and biphobia for the first time in my life
— angharad (@angharad_esq) April 6, 2023
I trust you said "protected" re: disabled ppl lmao but your point is solid.
— Stoatally Outrageous (@ItStoatallyFine) April 6, 2023
I can't believe it's come to this but the damn xmen argument is coming to life. "We register people to drive cars."
"Yes senator but not to live"
If life could stop imitating art that'd be nice.
Do you see how this defacto UK Bathroom Bill would work? Transphobes in the wild will assess cis women to see if they pass their own particular standard of what a woman should look like. There's even some transphobic Twitter accounts out there that say that JK Rowling is trans! https://t.co/5s6BG6LZBi
— Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) April 6, 2023
The proposed change in the law is nonsense on stilts. The suggestion is legally illiterate, unworkable and is just another way of using trans people’s actual lives as a pawn in the culture wars 2/
— Grey Collier (@GreyCollier) April 6, 2023
It would overturn some of the purposes of the Gender Recognition Act and make it possible to discriminate against trans people in a whole range of circumstances where it is currently outlawed 3/
— Grey Collier (@GreyCollier) April 6, 2023
The law currently defines the limited circumstances in which discrimination against a trans person is permitted, in appropriately narrow terms. There is no evidence at all that the law is not working. 7/
— Grey Collier (@GreyCollier) April 6, 2023
It’s unutterably cruel. No trans person, however long since they transitioned, whatever their anatomy, would be assured of being treated as the correct gender. There are trans people in their 80s who have been accessing correctly gendered services for decades. Leave them be. 8/
— Grey Collier (@GreyCollier) April 6, 2023
Honestly I really don't think a lot of people realise how terrifying this all is
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 7, 2023
Imagine if the state made it so just you (none of your friends or colleagues) was legally banned from using the toilet or any changing rooms, and had no legal protections from sexism etc
I have been trying to wrap my head around this all day. It is utterly insane that the protections afforded to women on how they present ie in the workplace, are being stripped from trans women. If a trans woman is subjected to misogyny and harassment in her workplace she will https://t.co/t5p5yMlrSR
— Dr Fern Riddell (@FernRiddell) April 4, 2023
Some of the messages I'm getting from terrified trans people are absolutely heartbreaking π
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 6, 2023
I have to keep reminding myself not to think "how could they do this to us?" because the answer is they don't consider us human
(Shared with permission) pic.twitter.com/ACgGKIzI90
Yesterday afternoon I asked the CEO of the EHRC "what is biological sex?" He couldn't answer. One of his directors eventually admitted that they had interpreted it to mean essentially "administrative sex" - no biology involved.
— Helen Belcher πΆ (@HelenCBelcher) April 6, 2023
Here is my article on the EHRC vs trans people scenario
— Katy Montgomerie π¦ (@KatyMontgomerie) April 6, 2023
It is an explainer of what is happening, why it is bad, and what you can do to help. Hopefully written for both scared trans people and for well meaning cis people who want to learn ❤️https://t.co/W8wOykE3mn pic.twitter.com/UPUCe1r32Y
Yo let's be very careful to not split our community over the EHRC's BS
— Siobhan Craig - DarkEden21 (@DarkEden21) April 6, 2023
The government are invalidating trans women's rights, sure sure, and they're saying they're GIVING trans men rights, ok right on
But they're not. The language used about trans men is JUST as bad. As always
Inequalities Minister, Kemi Badenough, the EHRC met with members of the LGBTQ+ community to discuss what they were up to.
— Samantha (@itssamanthaaaa_) April 9, 2023
Below is an extract detailing questions asked and answers given (or in many cases not given) to TransActual Chair, Helen Belcher.
Link Below. pic.twitter.com/hRqq1mlVhB
Not to endorse parliamentary solutions but Shon Faye is right here. Sharing petitions for trans rights is worthless right now.
— Mallory Moore (@Chican3ry) April 6, 2023
Tell your cis friends to ring up their MP.https://t.co/ZQycG0E8yV
The speed at which the Tory government announced plans to change this policy indicates yesterday’s media push was deliberately planned—producing outrage that schools are adhering to a policy that protects LGBT+ children, then announcing a change to remove these protections
— Nate (@nateffo) March 31, 2023
This is the book the EHRC is citing: https://t.co/0KuNFxm957
— πΌ Zinnia Jones π Judgment Snake (@ZJemptv) April 4, 2023
With:
Emma Hilton
Colin Wright
Sophie Scott (Florida anti-trans expert witness)
Kathleen Stock
Michael Biggs (SEGM)
Lisa Littman ("ROGD" study author)
It isn't released until August 2023
EHRC has an advance copy https://t.co/3xFNerC8ge pic.twitter.com/58wGmwM101
TransLucent says:
This short thread shares two peer reviewed articles on what actually happens when trans kids come out at school in the UK.
— Cal Horton (@FierceMum) June 19, 2023
Neither article has had any press coverage in a media that is both obsessed with, & ignorant about trans children in UK schools.
Pls read and share 1/6
Right-wing Tory MPs lobbied for ‘blanket ban’ on children being able to identify as transgender in schools: Miriam Cates and Nick Fletcher are understood to have warned officials it was ‘wrong’ to allow pupils to choose their own gender. inews.co.uk. July 16, 2023
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