Women’s Institute to ban transgender women after U.K. Supreme Court ruling

https://www.advocate.com/world/womens-institute-united-kingdom-transgender

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  1. All the progress we have done as a humanity in terms of humanism and peace seems to be getting undone entirely in the past couple of years. Hate, bigotry, nazism, radical nationalism, tribalism, exclusionism, homophobia, exceptionalism, xenophobia, pseudo-religious fundamentalism – all of these are on the rise again.

    As a humanity, we never truly learn anything and keep repeating the same mistakes again and again.

    **UPD**: Thanks to all those actively bombarding this comment with downvotes. You help to illustrate my point perfectly.

    **UPD 2**: I love all the people deflecting or telling me how I lack “nuance”.

    Yes, you are entirely correct: my view is absolutely not “nuanced”. There is no “nuance” required in the position of “how about we all treat each other with respect, empathy and understanding”. It’s not some complex philosophical concept. The only people who need “nuance” here are the hateful sophists who think that arguing about the meaning of words or definitions is more important than minimizing actual harm done to living human beings.

    No, I will not be “nuanced” with this topic. “Being a transphobe is bad” isn’t a “nuanced” position to hold. Saying “xenophobia/nazism/hate/etc is harmful” does not warrant some deep philosophical discussion. I can and will proudly say any time and anywhere that humanism and wellbeing are more important than your pathetic sophistry designed to divide people.

    Trans people being killed and driven to suicide for simply existing and being who they were born, isn’t “nuanced” – it’s sad, tragic, terrible. And any transphobes trying to deflect and derail the discussion into “bUt wHaT iS a WoMaN” need to take good hard look at their priorities (if they are intellectually capable of doing so, of course).

  2. “Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling helped fund the anti-trans legal challenge.”

    what an utter trash bag.

  3. So are they going to insist on all members supplying a Karyotype for verification or something?

    Employ an official genital inspector perhaps?

    Seems like a tacit endorsement of the law by making a statement that they recognize transgender women as women, while doing the exact opposite in policy.

  5. >The Equality and Human Rights Commission — the United Kingdom’s leading human rights agency — issued guidance in August banning trans people from single-sex facilities, even those that match their sex assigned at birth in some cases.

    Wait, so trans people can’t use women’s or men’s bathrooms in the UK? If that is indeed the case, I think that would pretty well illustrate the ridiculousness of the law.

    Also, what are the laws pertaining to intersex people in the UK? Is their gender identity respected or do they also exist in a legal no man’s land?

  7. My best friend is smart, hard working and a high earner with a great job. Pays lots of tax. She’s trans and has left the country because of people and decisions like this. The point of inclusion is that everyone benefits. As a country we are letting hate win. The voice an rage bait opinions of the few get amplified by the rich. Fuck em all with a sharp stick.

  8. I’m shocked truly.
    “Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling helped fund the anti-trans legal challenge.”

    THIS is the gold example of when separating art from the artist doesn’t work, it can work in other scenarios which are debatable but in this one it does not at all. Because she is a billionaire because of Harry Potter, continues to become wealthier because of Harry Potter, and uses that wealth to directly, often singlehandedly, fund groups and political will against a group she hates and then brags about it on social media.

    The only people I excuse are those who both grew up with it and are top level harry potter fans. (we all need to find some joy in this world) No one else is excused once made aware of what she is doing.

  11. If I am reading this correctly, the Supreme court ruled that transgender women are not women.

    Another organization banned trans people from single-sex facilities.

    From the article:

    “The Equality and Human Rights Commission — the United Kingdom’s leading human rights agency — issued guidance in August banning trans people from single-sex facilities, even those that match their sex assigned at birth in some cases.”

  12. Remind me again why girl guides and boy scouts are seperate? Is there a valid reason to segregate little girls and boys?

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