Female MP requests more and more and more trampling of women’s rights.
From the top:
While it appears that the government has successfully pushed back on some particularly harmful elements in the previous draft, the new Code of Practice will still lead to the exclusion of trans people from services and facilities that they have used without issue for a very long time.
This will do nothing to improve women’s lives and the many struggles we face, but it will put trans people (and anyone perceived as trans) at increased risk of discrimination, harassment and violence. The Code unfortunately still represents the culmination of years of anti-trans campaigning from a small, well-funded minority who have had outsized influence in the media and in politics, and have weaponised the courts for their own ends.
The legal situation for trans people is now deeply incoherent and means that it is untenable for them to be able live their lives with dignity. This is completely out of line with the values of equality that a Labour government is meant to champion. Instead of making this Code statutory, the government should be legislating to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion.
She means without issues, not without issue, which is formalese for no offspring. Anyway, of course men haven’t been using women’s services and facilities without any issues! Men have been using them with lots and lots of issues; that’s how we got here.
Yes, keeping men out of women’s spaces, jobs, prizes, organizations and so on will do a lot to improve the lives of women who have found men in their spaces, jobs, prizes, organizations and so on. That’s the point. Men do harm to women by invading spaces and taking jobs and prizes and so on that are meant for women. Saying it won’t is mindless dogma.
Why is our influence outsized? Furthermore, what about the influence trans activists have exercised? Don’t they punch well above their weight when it comes to chat about rights and dignity and all the rest of it?
The government should not be legislating to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion at the expense of women’s rights, privacy and inclusion. Men who pretend to be women are not, repeat not, more vulnerable or more dismissed or more bullied or more ignored than women. Quite the reverse.
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