Yes, I don't think many people realise the extent of it, thank you for noticing MM. Civil servants wrote a maternity bill (The Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill) recently which did not include a single reference to the words woman or mother. The HoL weren't having any of it thank goodness.
Interestingly, Stonewall are being quietly ditched by public bodies, including the CPS a few days ago. There's concern around the 'contentious' advice they're giving organisations, including misrepresenting the Equality Act. They've done so much good stuff for so long, it's sad it's come to this.
Fair enough. I should add that as a non trans bloke I don’t feel qualified to talk directly about this issue. I can say that my 17 year old daughter takes a completely different view on it to you, and in the last place I was union rep a trans woman used the women’s facilities mid transition with no problems. As far as I knew anyway.
It’s a tricky issue. I’m quite sure that most trans people can use the toilets they feel comfortable in with no problems, but some women are very concerned that some man could claim to be a woman, and have a right to go into female only spaces. I’ve only heard of one example of this actually happening.
I find it difficult to even talk about the subject, because the terms “gender” and “***” have become thoroughly mixed up. I accept that *** (male or female) is not quite as easy to define as I used to assume, but I object to “assigned at birth” when “observed at birth” seems a better description.
Overall, I would like people to be kind to trans people (I only know one, but it’s no problem to use his preferred pronouns and to keep some of my opinions to myself, such as the fact that I don’t actually think he’s male, just that he sees himself as that). But there are a few trans activists who claim to be female and act in a stereotypically male way, particularly towards feminists. They seem to have succeeded in making it “wrong” and anti-trans to disagree with them.
Good post. I want everyone to behave decently to each other. The sad reality is that women need single *** spaces to be safe and feel comfortable. Not all men are a risk, of course not, but the awful reality is that it's impossible to know who's a danger and who isn't. Hence single *** spaces. I don't think we should have to give them up.
Whichever version of Mr Cummings story you believe I fully agree that the events were handled very badly by all concerned. Obviously not the the biggest or most important lie by a politician but one that does not reflect well on the participants.
As you are fully aware this event was after the election so this would not have affected how the alleged knuckle draggers voted.
When he went on his jaunt everything he said after was a whopping lie, but then after he was sacked and started slating the government and Johnson then suddenly everything he said was the truth. Depends on your political slant on what you believe or want to believe.