TL;DR: Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".
In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.
Posted by Maleficent-Carob2912
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!ping LGBT
Labour delenda est
I remember, back when that one US state tried doing a similar thing, it was seen and covered here as a massive overreach by the far right of the Republican party. Brands pulled out and everything.
Now shit like this is actively encouraged right here at home by every wing of British politics except ~most of the Greens and ~half of the Lib Dems. How the fuck did we get here?
Not to get back into this – but this is the problem with the blairite quangocracy – defacto legislation done without parliament. The Equality Act is vague on this, so the EHRC fills the gap with its “guidance” – which is fine when people who are right-minded are in power, because they’ll interpret the law in the way you want them to. But if that changes, then the law basically changes without any vote in parliament.
Maybe I’m not Britain brained enough to understand this, but does *anyone* actually care about this issue as much as Labour does?
Like I understand thinking you need to pivot hard on social issues, but are they even under any meaningful electoral pressure with this? Does anyone care as much as Labour politicians seem to think they do?
Independent of electoralism, these policies are incredibly stupid, but it kinda stretches my mind to think there’s even much electoral benefit. Who is the voter who decides to not vote Reform because Labour is sufficiently cruel to trans people?
are all those pundits who were saying we should take the UK’s recommendations on trans healthcare seriously bc they aren’t a transphobic country still pushing this line?
lol the uk is going to crash out of the good friday and the eu withdrawal agreements for the dumbest possible reason