Women who transitioned decades ago feel their safety and security has suddenly been removed

Women who transitioned decades ago feel their safety and security has suddenly been removed

Last week’s supreme court ruling sent shock waves through the UK’s trans community.

The unanimous judgment said the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).

That feeling was compounded when Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is preparing new statutory guidance, said the judgment meant only biological women could use single-sex changing rooms and toilets.

      • knightly the SneptaurEnglish
        15•3 days ago

        For literally anyone whose appearance doesn’t match their birth certificate regardless of if they are cis or trans.

          • knightly the SneptaurEnglish
            13•3 days ago

            For one, it can get you thrown into a gulag by U.S. border patrol, or jailed in any of the states and countries that require one’s birth certificate to match a bathroom door sign.

            For another, it’s all the evidence that bigots in positions of power need to assume someone is trans, and people who are thought to be trans face deadly levels of harassment for that alone.

            • @jfr634@feddit.ukEnglish
              -12•3 days ago

              US border patrol is throwing people in a gulag because they don’t present the same way as their biological sex? Huh? Isn’t that all trans people? As for the bathroom thing, well that should be based on gender, not biological sex as I already said. No one should be harassed- and those that do harass others are in the wrong

          • Ioughttamow
            6•3 days ago

            Gee, I’ve never heard of trans people being assaulted for being themselves before

            • @jfr634@feddit.ukEnglish
              -3•3 days ago

              Who is looking at a person’s birth certificate before deciding to assault a person? And either way, any person who assaults any other person is a piece of shit and should face the full extent of the law

              • Ioughttamow
                2•2 days ago

                They aren’t, but they feel entitled to harass or assault someone they think is trans. Hell, did you miss the story a few weeks ago where a cis female was screamed at for using the women’s bathroom? Discriminatory laws embolden this behavior