Tuesday, April 4, 2023

UK Equality Act: Removing trans people?

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)?

TransLucent says:

May 25, 2023 tweet by www.TransLucent.Org.UK @TransLucent_Org We have often raised our concerns that the EHRC Board is not impartial. It should be noted by the press that several LGBT+ organisations broke ties with the EHRC over a year ago.
May 25, 2023 tweet by www.TransLucent.Org.UK @TransLucent_Org We have no confidence in the independent review of the EHRC, as the KC (Gavin Mansfield) undertaking the review would seem to share views similar to Baroness Falkner. This could be viewed as a conflict of interest. We are making a complaint about this to the EHRC
May 25, 2023 tweet by www.TransLucent.Org.UK @TransLucent_Org Now a little about TransLucent: Largely because of our expose of the EHRC last year, we won the 'LGBT Organisation of the Year Award 2022' at the National Diversity Awards. Our team of twelve are knowledgeable cis & trans people, all unpaid, four of whom are Directors
Christmas elf on a pillow
Mx. D. E. Anderson @diannaeanderson tweet Just had a conversation with a TERF where I got them to admit that the way 'woman' functions in all of society is basically self-ID - even got them to say 'you ask them who they are.' As soon as they realized what they'd done, though, the insults came flying.
Anyway if we want to define woman, we must first ask why.
Katy Montgomerie tweets June 19, 2023: Looks like we are getting a new Section 28. Again I expect Labour to do nothing about it when they get in power. A whole generation of trans kids will suffer irreversibly. In 30 years everyone will wonder how it happened and why trans kids were so hated. Same thing over again
Harry Cole tweets June 18, 2023: 'EXC: Schools trans guidance revealed - with @NatashaC - No pronoun or uniform change without parental consent - No hiding changes from parents - Head can say no to protect other kids - Competitive sport protected - gender questioning pupils banned.' in response to this, 'the bosom chum of Nelson Muntz' tweets June 19, 2023: Sorry to keep pointing out the obvious, but *this* is gender ideology. This is the state enforcing gender norms - what clothes you wear, what name and pronouns you go by. The fact that the proponents of this policy call themselves 'gender critical' is risible
Tabitha McIntosh tweets June 19, 2023: This is not Section 28. It's worse. Section 28 didn't mandate that parents be informed if a 16 year old said they were gay. It didn't say that straight students' well-being had to be considered in a school's decision to 'allow' students to be LGB. It didn't outlaw my trousers

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

Katy Montgomerie @KatyMontgomerie tweets July 19, 2023: Every single thing this government wants for trans people clashes with the Equality Act 2010. That alone is very damning - They're doing it because they hate trans people, but also so they can use it as a wedge issue to built support for scrapping the EA2010
Tabitha McIntosh @TabitaSurge tweets July 19, 2023: Not just EQ10: Some of them are using this story to call for scrapping GRA 2004
Eirnin @queertyyr tweets July 19, 2023: They're trying a lot of ways to repeal GRA through the backdoor imo, that's that the EqA shit is about, plus the draft civil service guidance etc. They lost the reform battle so they're trying to find other ways

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