UN experts felt a similar way to disabled peoples rights a few years back, but unfortunately UN concern doesn’t translate to anything being changed for us (disabled or trans or anyone else).
The last few years with the whole trans issue has really shown me how much public opinion is controlled by a few.
Britain made it illegal to discriminate against someone in the workplace based on their gender identity in 2004. “Sex-change operations” have been a thing for decades before that. The Tavistock clinic was built on government orders and ran for some time without any complaints.
Then it was “decided” by the powers that be that this was going to be a political issue.
I’m sure that some of the anti-trans groups would still exist in some form either way. But there’s no reason they’d be more prominent than other anti-lgbt groups or anti-abortion groups. None of this had to be a big deal. The media and the Tory party decided it would be a big deal.
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As times get tougher, I can see things getting worse for the trans community. If the Tories remain in power then they will need scapegoats and bogeymen to deflect criticism from their inability/lack of desire to run the UK in a way that works for the average person. Immigrants have born the brunt of that for decades, to the point where it is difficult to make them even more of a scapegoat, so the government will look elsewhere and they seem to have found a goldmine in the trans community. They are misunderstood enough by the public that the government and media can channel hate/fear towards them, using moral panic of them ‘indoctrinating’ children and wanting access to safe spaces for their desired gender as dog whistles to their followers. It’s a slam dunk for the government but a tragedy for the trans community.
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[Here’s the link to the statment from the UN visit.](https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/sexualorientation/statements/eom-statement-UK-IE-SOGI-2023-05-10.pdf) Pretty damming.
UN experts felt a similar way to disabled peoples rights a few years back, but unfortunately UN concern doesn’t translate to anything being changed for us (disabled or trans or anyone else).
The last few years with the whole trans issue has really shown me how much public opinion is controlled by a few.
Britain made it illegal to discriminate against someone in the workplace based on their gender identity in 2004. “Sex-change operations” have been a thing for decades before that. The Tavistock clinic was built on government orders and ran for some time without any complaints.
Then it was “decided” by the powers that be that this was going to be a political issue.
I’m sure that some of the anti-trans groups would still exist in some form either way. But there’s no reason they’d be more prominent than other anti-lgbt groups or anti-abortion groups. None of this had to be a big deal. The media and the Tory party decided it would be a big deal.
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As times get tougher, I can see things getting worse for the trans community. If the Tories remain in power then they will need scapegoats and bogeymen to deflect criticism from their inability/lack of desire to run the UK in a way that works for the average person. Immigrants have born the brunt of that for decades, to the point where it is difficult to make them even more of a scapegoat, so the government will look elsewhere and they seem to have found a goldmine in the trans community. They are misunderstood enough by the public that the government and media can channel hate/fear towards them, using moral panic of them ‘indoctrinating’ children and wanting access to safe spaces for their desired gender as dog whistles to their followers. It’s a slam dunk for the government but a tragedy for the trans community.