Comment on EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights

• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well, I’m not an expert in this stuff, but here’s a couple of starting points

  • This bill amendment that was submitted, but thankfully didn’t pass
  • The Cass Report, a review of the science of trans studies the government bases many of its decisions on has been widely criticised by the international community. It was also found they tried to deliberately ban any subject experts from weighing in on the report during its construction.
  • The EHRC and other government bodies frequently consult trans hate groups while preventing any trans person from weighing in on decisions about them
  • Last year, the UK government banned the use of puberty blockers for adolescents, saying there is an unacceptable health risk to them, when in fact the risk is minor at best and witholding them is much more damaging to trans people (high suicide rate, for example).

  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.

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  • rah@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This bill amendment that was submitted, but thankfully didn’t pass

    “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.

    • The Cass Report, a review of the science of trans studies the government bases many of its decisions on has been widely criticised by the international community. It was also found they tried to deliberately ban any subject experts from weighing in on the report during its construction.
    • The EHRC and other government bodies frequently consult trans hate groups while preventing any trans person from weighing in on decisions about them
    • Last year, the UK government banned the use of pubertymight blockers for adolescents, saying there is an unacceptable health risk to them, when in fact the risk is minor at best and witholding them is much more damaging to trans people (high suicide rate, for example).

    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?

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