That’s my point about permissiveness, if the rights weren’t there about self identifying, but everyone’s ok with it, then it feels like more rights, which may or may not be supported in law. But then when a lack of support in law is being enforced by bad feeling alone, people who want to cry about who’s using which toilet, then the end result is that it feels like a loss of rights. I think it’s a bad thing, but I also understand that in law, being able to do something without a fuss, and then later not being able to, is nothing to do with rights unless the law actually changed.
Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights
Armand1@lemmy.world 3 days agoThat’s the narrative, but trans rights have been taken away. Ask anyone who is being forced to put themselves by going to their “sex assigned at birth” bathroom, or being forced to use the accessible toilets.
Not to speak of the increased trans-spotting, and the fact women can now be searched by male police officers (trans or cis) for being suspected of being trans.
And every effort is being made to pass more laws to make things worse, such as making registries of trans people, outing them to their employers and potential employers.
waz@feddit.uk 3 days ago
zazazaza@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
human rights are not just based on what the law says…
if a community that had an unwritten custom that everyone could access the village well, and then a new ruler passed a law restricting certain people from the well, would you say no rights were violated since well access was never legally codified?
unless of course you’re a feudalist/capitalist that supports the commons enclosures or the Highland “clearances”…
rah@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’m curious about this, could you possibly provide a source?
Armand1@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well, I’m not an expert in this stuff, but here’s a couple of starting points
Generally, rather than listening to experts, the government cherry picks bad research (similar to weirdos saying vaccines cause autism) and listens to and emboldens hate groups.
rah@feddit.uk 3 days ago
“to summarise, Amendment NC21 to the Data Use and Access Bill would require sex to be defined as “sex at birth” for all identity verification requests.”
From what I can tell, this isn’t about creating a register of trans people, this is about collecting “sex at birth” alongside other data for any “identity verification requests” which might occur. Also, without looking into it, I would expect any provided data would have to be deleted when it was no longer needed, in line with existing data protection legislation.
None of this is about creating a registry of trans people.
I don’t understand how you went from this stuff you’ve linked to, to a registry of trans people. Where did that come from?