…that you are a man, and always will be!
Things have been getting worse, but until recently, my life as a transgender woman had not been consumed with worrying about how I’m supposed to live it. That is, until last year’s UK supreme court ruling.
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In fact, when I’ve worried about needing a bathroom or felt hesitant about taking up space when invited to join a women’s network, it’s been other women who have made me feel welcome and pushed me to stop worrying. This was the reality for many trans people in the UK until 2025, when the court decided that “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act must refer to “biological sex”, upending decades of shared understanding of the law.
The handmaidens who are pleased to sell their sisters’ rights out for woke brownie points have overstepped one too many times. Your movement has proved to be a liability.
In a human sense, the government is leading us into a dark reality with its eyes wide open. It can stop this at any time. The government’s own equality impact assessment admits that the impact on all trans people will likely be wide-ranging and negative, and notes trans women could face “disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault” if we are left only with access to men’s services.
Yes, men are a threat to women’s safety, that’s exactly why we don’t want you in our spaces!
Trans people will be left with a choice between researching toilet provision every time we go out or living our lives as we always have – only now without the protection of the law. In reality, our worlds will get smaller, and so many trans people who enrich our communities will self-exclude, leaving everyone worse off.
How exactly do they do that?
Far from Andy Burnham’s preferred “live and let live”, not fixing this will define Labour’s legacy on LGBTQ+ rights for a generation.
We tried 'live and let live', but you weren't satified with that, it wasn't enough that you were tolerated in your kink, you always pushed for more, more, more - insisting on changing birth certificates and invading female spaces, and women finally had enough and the Supreme Court agreed.
Trans people’s legal protections, hard-won and vital, clearly no longer work. We elect our politicians to be legislators, and they must fix the law itself. Not doing so is a political choice, and they cannot hide behind the courts in making it.
That's exactly how laws are made in this country, you loon!
There was no problem when men transitioned to the female form quietly. All they wanted to do was live their lives as closely as a woman as possible and needed the surgery to fulfil that. We had 2-3 decades of the quiet transitions. Without a problem.
ReplyDeleteThe problems started when we got men instantly declaring themselves women, keeping the genitalia and flaunting it in the faces of women and their daughters in female changing rooms, demanding access to female spaces, demanding "female rights" without ever wanting to appear female.
In fact they were the most masculine of men, doing what insecure men have done for millenia: abusing women.
The pushback is righteous and just.
In the olden days; that is over 25 years ago; I used to meet friends in a pub that was frequented by trannies. They kept to themselves and we did likewise. But what I recall was that all of them were quite well built men. I can't recall which toilets they used but my thoughts in hindsight are that the trannies looked tough enough to be able to defend themselves. Perhaps there are some thin and weedy trannies but I don't recall ever seeing any. So I don't think they need to be anxious about using the men's toilets.
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ReplyDeleteI know several gay men who live as couples Without exception they carry on their lives without fuss or trying to parade their differences. Everyone who knows them treats them as normal and without prejudice because they have shown that they are reasonable people.
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