The second debate is more contentious and is the point where silencing of certain voices seems unreasonable to me. This is the debate regarding whether some men should be afforded women’s rights, and if yes, then how far should that extend.
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Listening to all perspectives in a balanced and objective way is a key part of the way forward and you are one of the few with the guts to do that openly so thank you. Hopefully more politicians will follow your lead. There are lots of voices that need a proper hearing.
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I’m not saying any of the concerns you list (& others you haven’t) aren’t honestly held. What I doubt is that making the GRC process easier will have any effect on the things people are concerned about. If it’s an issue now, it still will be. If it’s not now, it won’t be after.
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Brian, it absolutely WILL make a huge difference to actual women’s lives. Here’s why: 4500 people have GRCs now. If sex self-ID goes ahead, there could be 500,000 (GIRES figure), a 11,000% increase in the numbers of people with a birth certificate that doesn’t match their sex.
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Frontline staff at women-only services (eg domestic violence shelters) will face a drastic rise in males with female birth certificates seeking entry. Although they can legally exclude all males from female-only services, staff cannot access the register of people with GRCs.
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With no register to rely on in deciding whether to exclude a transgender male, a worker at a rape crisis centre will be forced - on pain of being sacked or vilified if she gets it wrong - to admit male-bodied people into shelters for women who’ve been traumatised by males.
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If sex self-ID is passed (which would be a nightmare for women & girls, & undermine the rationalist basis of our legal system), transgender privacy laws will have to be reduced to enable women-only & lesbian-only service providers to enforce their legal right to single-sex space.
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The onus is on supporters of sex self-ID to come up with practical solutions that empower female-only service providers to enforce girls’ and women’s rights to single-sex space. Without these, women are justified in seeing GRA ‘reform’ as a male rights-grab & an attack on the EA.
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