Is anyone aware of a place in the book where Stock actually states this position, where she endorses the retention of the GRA? I am not.
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What I remember, and what I’m finding now, is some comments around it that don’t take an explicit position, but come across as at best ambivalent about it.
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The part of the book where she talks most about the GRA is the chapter where she says it should be understood as creating a “legal fiction” that the person has changed sex, and proceeds to discuss the “profound dangers” of institutionalizing “immersion in the fiction.”
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One of the big dangers: what if PRONOUNS…… are ROOFIES?
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By the time she starts on the Dangers of Immersion she’s wandered away from talking about the GRA specifically, and as far as I can find she just leaves it hanging. But you are not left with the impression that she thinks the GRA is particularly good
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Her discussion of it in the intro is pretty ambivalent also, emphasizing things it was supposedly based on that she says have now changed.
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Search does not work super well in my version of the book so I don’t feel like I can say for certain, but this supposed basis for her taking to national media to accuse a student of lying… I am not seeing it.
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IT’S NOT ACCEPTABLE ON THE PART OF **ANY** ORGANIZATION TO REQUIRE PEOPLE NOT CONSTANTLY MISGENDER OTHERS AT WORK
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literally no one that thinks Stock is a bigot would read this book and think oh no actually she’s not, she is so full of shit
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yeah while the book doesn’t obviously take a specific position on the GRA, it very definitely makes claims opposing trans people’s current protections under the Equality Act
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This is a very straightforward violation of EQ10, the Forstater ruling and the language of its appeal: your right to believe whatever you want is absolutely real. But deliberately misgendering people on the basis of that belief ‘has no place in a civilised society.’ You’re fired
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ok I’ve gotten a less ugly and more searchable version of the book and this supposed endorsement of keeping the GRA really does not appear to be in there
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this is just useful to have: solutions.weblite.ca/pdfocrx/
there also some free web app convertors for epub/pdf → pdf ocr, or iOS Tesseract ports, from a mobile device
some even read to you, and if you set it on another language for an English text, will read in an accent
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It'd be helpful of her to put the matter to rest by sharing publicly the passage she's referring to, but putting the matter to rest doesn't seem her goal.
Or maybe we're meant to have read the whole book and only if done correctly can we synthesise a sense of her support of GRA
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I couldn't find anything explicit about this either; I think we're supposed to infer that she supports it as-is from the fact that she doesn't recommend any specific changes in the book
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