Services need to be able to run a policy of reasonable inclusion in both directions, including both trans men and women in some circumstances. Events that run "men and any trans people who feel a men only space is right for them (incl nonbinaries and trans women)" policies should be allowed
Right, a policy that doesn't allow services or associations to draw the lines they think are important, where they can justify that line, is problematic in its own way.
So I take from this that if I'm treated in any way that is different from cis women while using a women's toilet (like being asked to provide evidence of birth sex or ID) that this is direct gender reassignment discrimination? In the view of the EHRC?
It's fundamentally unjust for demographic crime averages to be used to discriminate against a whole group. Even if certain groups (eg young men in poverty) are statistically more likely to be convicted of a crime, you can't use that average to discriminate against people who've done nothing wrong
Never? Seems unlikely, especially with teenagers Yeah I don't think the law can be interfering with comments made to kids too much, especially if it's related to legitimate criticisms. Like a parent expressing frustration that dad is two hours late to pick up the kids again.
These paintings are fascinatingly ugly Even in comparison with his mid children's bible illustrations, which are bland and uninspired but not aesthetically hideous in the same way
The stress of that isn't going to make anyone a better parent. Some of these "alienation" arguments sound like the kids just don't like a parent because they objectively suck, then that gets treated as the other parent sinisterly turning the kids against them.
You don't actually need to disclose most stis and even if you have transmissible hiv and don't disclose it's reckless transmission not rape. The cps guidance unfortunately places an active duty on trans people to disclose and says it's sexual assault if we don't
Nope, the only thing it's illegal to deceive about in the UK is birth sex. Pretending to be a celebrity, lying about having had a vasectomy, all fine. It's birth sex and pretending to be someone's partner that's illegal and nothing else.
Apparently deception as to identity is actually fine, unless you're pretending to be a specific person personally known to the victim (eg. their partner). Literally a specific "deception as to sex" rule for trans people only
Trans men have been prosecuted for using a prosthetic without disclosure, but I think a cis man with ED who did the same would not be breaking the law? Which seems very uneven. It's disturbing how much the victim's homophobia/transphobia/misogyny is treated as a legitimate harm in this context.
And deciding (contrary to case law) that either legal or certificated sex determines access to spaces/services and pregnancy protections, and then relying on that assumption in their reasoning.
Ah okay that tracks, the rules here are bizarre and complicated Like deception re impersonation being illegal only if you personally know the person they're pretending to be
Excellent critiques of fws by legal people, feeling genuinely hearted to see so many different people willing to put their name to critiques of the ruling journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
hahaha “there is something quite surprising, and quite jarring, about the way in which this judicial language seeks to diminish the significance of a legal document”
