Isaac's deconstruction of the 'privilege' framework here is desperately vital because it's no longer used as a tool to name and identify vectors of oppression, but rather a competitive bludgeon through which we assert why others don't have it as bad as we do.
It has become anti-solidarity.
They can't even be original with whatever they throw at the wall. I wish I could be shocked by how blatantly they're copying the 'addiction' framing from homophobic conversion practitioners.
'published by the Fabians' — of course it is. Also can't believe that they're still going on about sovereign AI
I often think about this, it's so draining. I imagine a purposive reading or a referral to the CJEU by the UKSC would've led to a very different outcome.
A lot of trans people I know don't seem to appreciate the historical gains via the CJEU either. They seem to focus entirely on the ECtHR
I know a lot of people from outside the UK who follow @pinknews.bsky.social to try to stay on top of UK development - friends, can you help spread the word? Boycott now - stop following them, remove them from your press lists, never click through to their website. Disgusting betrayal.
Labour are slashing the applicability of Disabled Students' Allowance to many types of disability and leaving students dependent on the whims of free services. Such progressive values:
wonkhe.com/blogs/dfe-pr...
It isn't difficult to express extremely bigoted beliefs in a civil, polite way that fits the Grainger criteria, so a hyper-cautious universalising approach means the Lib Dems are now in a position where you have to allow membership of many absolutely heinous groups. Do you think the party will?
I ordinarily disagree wildly with the popular understanding of law among trans people on here (I'm more cautious), but I don't see how a party can be compelled to allow manifestation of any protected belief because that's antithetical to political organising. Thanks for your time and best wishes
I partly agree with that, but I also feel that the context here is different. Among other things, the Ali judgment emphasised that the party couldn't be compelled to keep him as "this would infringe [the party's] article 9(1) rights by obliging them to manifest a belief which they did not hold"
So if okay to ask, was your legal advice effectively that if any belief would meet Grainger criteria and doesn't fall afoul of our courts' application of Art 17 ECHR (i.e. not Nazi-level behaviour), then it has be permitted space within a political party? Because that has absurd consequences
Afaik, the EA2010 is also largely an achievement of the EU, not Labour. I think it goes further than required in a few places but it was largely a domestic implementation of directives, including CJEU precedents that only existed because the UK was especially unaccommodating of trans people
There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.
1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".
If they are published, what are the chances that it'll be the same group as the York reviews and published in the GC-friendly BMJ again? :/
While I was attending an appointment with a friend, her doctor claimed that aromatase would convert higher E to T. He was either dangerously clueless or trying to scare her into accepting incredibly low levels of E (<150 pmol/L). I'm so glad I was there to push back against it.
A gift card that reads "Eve, Happy Valentine's Day! I love you so much ?? x" The sender's name has been edited out with a white square.
Still giggling because an encoding issue means thay my Valentine's flowers came with a gift card that makes it seem as if my partner isn't certain about loving me. The ?? was supposed to be a heart emoji
Beyond how reprehensible and callous this is, lack of legal recognition causing people to be outed at work and subject to mistreatment was central to the Goodwin/I decisions. It's so bizarre.
“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely”
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet
something about the angle and shoulder shape feels very David Byrne's giant suit
FWIW this was a big part of the strategy of Action 4 Trans Health, in doing things like collectivising training for trans people to do electrolysis and have machines for it so that we'd have practitioners within the community and reduce costs generally.
So it turns out there’s loads of us who are online enough to encounter the phrase “Butlerian Jihad” regularly, nerdy enough to know who Judith Butler is, but not the right kind of nerd to know it’s actually from Dune. My mind is blown by this revelation.
Same here. I'm deeply unhappy that he was parachuted into the constituency. He seems to spend most of his time co-opting local campaigns or using social media to desperately appeal to Reform voters by behaving like a caricature of the 'red wall'. It's pathetic, obviously patronising, and insulting.
This is the moment that made me less worried about her successfully hiding her bigotry. The desperate waffling in response to a bunch of other questions made it clear that she knows almost nothing about other protected groups too
again: the UK has never once taken action anything like this with regards to any medication at all whatsoever.
It is completely unprecedented for emergency powers to have been used to ban a medication for a specific group or for that to have been extended indefinitely pending (unethical) trials.
To me, a few of the early edits also actually remedied a problem with the BBC making it seem as if Peggie was suspended for 'complaining' about refusing to share a changing room. The later edits have not only reverted to that incorrect framing but also made it the second paragraph. Typical. :/
I assume it doesn't change anything but, unless I'm being really oblivious, I'm surprised that hasn't been corrected too
There was a purported quote from Lee v Ashers that I didn't recognise, and I can't find it in the judgment itself or press summary. After checking, the closest aspect of the judgment seems to be the quote from Kokkinakis v Greece
Yeah, it's so tragic. Having been put through hell by the NHS as a kid in the mid-00s, I really believed that future generations would be increasingly free of the trauma.
Now they've fully returned to all of the awful things I remember, I'm letting my rage at the memories fuel me. They can't win
I am fucking begging you all to stop trying to frame being annoyed by other trans people's behaviour online in terms of oppressor/oppressed dynamics that do not actually apply here.
Especially pathetic because Nandy wore a custom 'protect the dolls' t-shirt at a local pride, one given to her by a naïve and blinkered local councillor.
Seeing it in the discussions around misogynists being "gay" because they hate women by people who enjoy fantasies where misogynist men can be distanced and demeaned through connection to homosexuality.
Seeing it through discussions around right wing transphobia targeting trans sexual health tech.