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Trans women must be barred from female toilets, changing facilities and sports teams, new official guidance is to state.

Bridget Phillipson is expected to confirm on Thursday that official guidance will state what businesses and public bodies must do under the law to protect single-sex spaces.

The guidance follows last year’s Supreme Court judgment that trans women, who were born male, are not legally women for the purposes of the Equality Act.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Rather than spend energy punching down trans people with this crap Labour could have acted swiftly to remove the ambiguity in the law. But they chose not to.

    Why do you keep voting Labour when all your getting is Tories / Reform lite?

  • mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    If they didn’t like it when they heard the judgement, the government could have decided to change the law. They can’t say “it was the Supreme Court, our hands are tied”; they’re the government, and they have a majority. There was nothing in the King’s Speech, so they have chosen to keep it as it is. This is the government’s transphobia, not the Supreme Court’s.

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    4 months ago

    So in a quest to ban something that has never caused an actual problem they just create a new one.

    Women who have transitioned into becoming a man will now be forced to explain to everyone that they are biologically a woman when entering a toilet, and for me there is now a chance that the next time I’m stood at a urinal my neighbour will be a woman with a bigger knob than mine.

    Meanwhile, actual sex offenders will continue to not be stopped from committing offences in toilets and changing rooms because of a little sign on the door

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    4 months ago

    As well as the obviously horrible implications for trans people, the other predictable outcome of this is that cis women who don’t look feminine/conforming enough will face shaming and violence from people who will see it as their right to enforce this ban.

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        4 months ago

        Problem is the right already have 2 parties to vote for, they’ll just push voters away, either to apathy or other parties.

        Here’s hoping we can convince enough Labour voters, who didn’t want this stupid, pointlessly cruel right-wing shit, to vote Green.

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          4 months ago

          Thing is, I dont want to vote green.

          I agree with most of their environmental and immigration policies, but a lot of their policies on policing, defence, devolution and increasing benefits payments to the unemployed (except where through disability) I disagree with.

          Their commentary on how the police responded to the Golders green knife attack for instance really pissed me off. In some ways they are enlightened, but when it comes to stuff like this they are hopelessly naive.