I wasn’t. I was suggesting that Arthur seems to be particularly incensed by a woman asserting her rights. I mean he’s spent hours tweeting and retweeting himself in this. It seems a little ‘over the top’.
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Replying to @MFnP @SkullPirateMike and
i think we've all been rather clear that what we're incensed about is a billionaire leveraging her vast wealth to promote the torture of children
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Replying to @perdricof @SkullPirateMike and
JKR isn’t ‘promoting the torture of children’. I’m really not sure what you think that type of hyperbole achieves.
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Replying to @MFnP @SkullPirateMike and
jkr has pretty clearly dedicated herself to a program of increased gatekeeping for trans youth, i.e. the prolonged physical and mental torture of already-disadvantaged children
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Replying to @perdricof @MFnP and
this is part of a larger project of *segregation* of trans people from the rest of society. i know "separate but equal" rings different on your backwards island, but over here we have a pretty good idea of what that entails in practice.
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Replying to @perdricof @SkullPirateMike and
Have you read the Equality Act yet?
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Replying to @MFnP @perdricof and
Are you trying to suggest that because there are laws in place to protect minorities, discrimination doesn't exist? Because that is literally an argument white nationalists use.
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Replying to @SkullPirateMike @perdricof and
No. I’m suggesting that to understand much of the debate in the uk you need a working knowledge of the Equality Act. Specifically the concept of protected characteristics.
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Replying to @MFnP @perdricof and
In what way? Isn't the GC position pretty much just that trans people should be removed from it?
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Replying to @SkullPirateMike @MFnP and
Not immediately, it's to chip away at it in various directions Like first and foremost by giving cis medical gatekeepers the power to decide who's "really" trans in the first place
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We were just talking about legal realism right If you can't legally be considered a "real" trans person without a tribunal of cis people deciding you are, then every other law protecting trans rights is a dead letter They can just decide it doesn't apply to you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SkullPirateMike and
I mean it shakes out in practice exactly as you'd predict GRCs are extremely rare, they're basically only given out as often as necessary to maintain the pretense that they are in fact given out Almost no British trans people have one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SkullPirateMike and
In practice, trans rights in the UK are an ad hoc affair based on individual institutions' sense of fairness If you don't believe that the law actually changes until the courts say it's changed, then it's all on very shaky ground, and ripe for reversal
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