Why the fuck is a cisgender children’s fiction author consulting with the government on what rights trans people should have?? Absolutely deranged country.

I love that my rights as a person are dependent on making a deranged cis woman happy, fucking hate this place

Mhm. And why wouldn’t they want to talk with her, the unbiased paragon of tolerance that she is. I’m surprised they aren’t offering for her to head up a new political office who’s sole purpose is to determine if trans people should have rights or not.

I’m really glad that the likely government supermajority for the next 5 or so years is willing to listen to people and take their opinions on board.

So I’m keenly awaiting my invite to speak with the Labour top brass on this issue, as it’s one that I also have opinions on. I checked my missed calls but they must just be making the appointment for early next week or something, right?

Or is it some other reason, like the status of billionaire, which I am conspicuously about a billion pounds short of?

Maybe they’d like to arrange to speak with Graham Linehan about it to get a more balanced view instead? (/s)

Getting a GRC more easily is the only positive thing we’ve heard relating to trans rights from this group; we’ve heard the biological essentialism from several of the shadow cabinet and yesterday the story about not wanting to teach about trans identities in schools (which amounts to upholding the section 28-like policy from the blue tories).

And even this one positive sounds like it’s a lie. The current GRC process requires two years of ‘proof’ of ‘living as your acquired gender’ but this isn’t actually hard to get - any official documents like bank statements or payslips showing your new name is sufficient (any periodically-produced document is fine and most people will have something). The hard part is the “gender dysphoria” diagnosis, because currently two are required IIRC, and one must be from the list of “approved” doctors. Since the NHS waiting lists are currently alleged to be over a decade in most of the country, this means that you need to get one of these specifically through private means, putting it out of reach of many.

We can already self-id for our driving license and passport. Why does changing our gender so we can get married as a “husband” or “wife”, or be recognised as our gender after our life’s end, matter so much that it requires this much oversight? Wouldn’t it be more cost-effective, produce better outcomes, and simplify processes if we could just take our deed poll to the registry office and say “please update my gender marker, name and title”?

I’m still holding out a faint hope that we elect a strongly left-oriented opposition (at least) or that Kier is playing some kind of 15-dimensional chess to use the right wing to gain a supermajority and then reveal that they were a left-wing party all along. But I’m not naive enough to believe that to be possible.

And if you’re reading this Kier, call me gestures with hand mimicing telephone. I’m free next week for a chat if you want opinions from people who this policy would actually affect, instead of terminally-online billionaires who tweet about one subject constantly.

Sometimes I almost forget how fucked up JKR actually is

you can’t just give shiny new names like “reflection period” or “medical assessment by doctors” to old tricks like “real life experience” and “panel of judges and one doctor” and hope that people won’t notice. it doesn’t actually work.

So obviously jk Rowling is a massive cunt but isn’t this more about Labour reaching out to a former donor in the run up to an election and less about shaping policy?

Wtf

I miss Corbyn lmao

They always do this. Every fucking time they want to make policies about us, they contact transphobic activists instead of actual experts on the question. What fucking expertise does she have?! And even more, haven’t you done enough against trans people already? Like, you need to justify doing more against them, seriously?

The internet has often talked about how some of the states in the US are run by people who are absolutely deranged about trans people, but the UK is just something else.

new Labour is dead labour anyway. Nothing but neoliberal bs

can someone please fucking milkshake starmer already? i hate him so much

Can someone please stop this evil witch on spouting her opinion in public? Stop giving her hate a public platform.

Isn’t she a Tory?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Speaking in Scotland, Reeves said protection for women-only spaces would “absolutely stay”, adding: “We’re not going to be changing anything around biological sex … We’re really happy to talk to JK Rowling to give her assurances about that.”

The shadow chancellor made the offer to meet the author and former Labour donor on Monday, after Rowling said she would “struggle to support” the party in next week’s general election.

The plan is largely the same as that outlined last year by Labour’s national policy forum, but was reported by the Times after an article for the paper on Saturday by Rowling expressed her unease with the party’s position.

She added: “Asking on behalf of female survivors of domestic violence and gay people who don’t subscribe to gender identity ideology, I’d also like to know whether Angela Rayner still considers the last two organisations hate groups.”

Under current rules, people are asked to show evidence “from a variety of different sources” over the two-year period, such as official documents, payslips and letters, which give their new name or title, or their gender.

We will remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance, while retaining the need for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria from a specialist doctor, enabling access to the healthcare pathway.”

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