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Warning over transgender guidance to judges - Lae Gazette article.

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stumbledin · 24/02/2020 18:35

Good to see the Law Gazette acknowledging there is an issue.

" ... Guidance for judges on transgender issues has come under fire from solicitors in the wake of controversial court rulings. Feminist lawyers say the guidance, in the Equal Treatment Bench Book, fails to highlight conflicts between transgender and women’s rights.

The Bench Book advises that transgender defendants should be addressed by the pronouns of their choice and that ‘self-definition is the most important criteria’ (sic). At least one victim of violence by a transgender woman has been reprimanded in court for using male pronouns while describing the attack. Finding the defendant guilty, the judge refused the victim compensation, saying that when asked to refer to the defendant as ‘she’, the victim had done so with ‘bad grace’ or continued to use ‘he’.

" ... The Bench Book also endorses the terms ‘cisgender’ or ‘cis’ as ‘often used to describe people whose gender identity corresponds to the sex assigned to them at birth’. The book does not mention that some women find the term ‘cis’ offensive. The Gazette understands that the term was also introduced to judges at a training session last year without any kind of warning as to its use. ... "

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/warning-over-transgender-guidance/5103196.article

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Redshoeblueshoe · 24/02/2020 18:39

Assigned at birth hmm I wonder who did their training ?
fucking Stonewall

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