Labour will make it easier for people to change their gender

the quality act gender reassignment category of 2010.
If you are going to quote The Law, in attempt to sound important and knowledgeable, do try and Google twice.

This is just bollocks.
HTH.

'Do you feel you have the backing of the leadership Rosie?'
...
'No.'

https://twitter.com/RosieDuffield1/status/1711444732696543345?s=20

How the chuff does it need to be made easier to change something WHICH ISN'T REAL?

You can change your gender as easily as you can change the name of your imaginary friend.

Oh.

They don't mean it needs to be made easier to change your gender.

They mean sex, don't they?

Of course, it can't be made easier to change your sex because changing sex is impossible.

So what they actually mean is that it needs to be made easier to force the rest of society to pretend that you are the opposite sex to the one you actually are.

I am just so fed up of the lack of ambition when it comes to women’s rights. I just feel like we are constantly begging for scraps - and scraps is all we get.

A French Equality watchdog recently found that 90% of pornographic content online features verbal, physical and sexual violence towards women, and a significant amount of violence shown is punishable under existing laws in France. In my opinion pornography is one of the major drivers of misogyny and VAWG.

But instead of working towards the banning of pornography, we’re going to put a plaster on it. The rape, the coercion, the brutalisation of women will still occur, but Labour are going to prevent the algorithms from promoting the harmful content online.

Instead of trying to work towards a society that doesn’t have misogyny ingrained in it’s very fabric, we’re going to
make it a hate crime. Those adults that display misogynistic behaviours will get a telling off. It is a lot easier than trying to tackle the root causes granted, but in 10 years time under these type of policies, women will still be begging for the same scraps.

Ha yes

while continuing to support the implementation of the 2010 Equality Act, including its provision for single-sex exemptions

How?

So according to you, a GRC is practically useless.

Do you agree then that it's time to scrap the GRA?

I'm amazed at how the Labour party and SNP have made this such a priority. Instead of trying to change the GRA to make it easier for anyone to get one, they could just scrap it altogether and everyone would be happy.

This would become a woke hell country with Labour. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

Why don't you go and get one then, instead of trolling us here.

I'm even more amazed that posters who aren't even interested in the topic and think it's a big nothing spend so much time on threads like this.

Anyway I think the point is that Labour made a big show of stepping back from legislating for self ID and yet it's looking like all they're actually planning to change is the language.

It is true that we already have de facto self id because no one is allowed to ask to see a GRC or disclose that someone has one.

In practice any man who says he is a woman must be taken at his word as with any woman who says she is a man.

The way forward to sort this mess out is to clarify that the EA refers to sex and not gender identity and to repeal the GRA.

Laws should be based on objective, observable, immutable sex and and not subjective, invisible, changeable feelings.

Labour is extremely unlikely to restore women’s rights.

Still amazed at how people get wound up on this. We already have self ID in effect from the quality act gender reassignment category of 2010.

All this would do is change a birth certificate which no-one practically uses in day to day life. And thus why few trans bother for a GRA certificate.

The EA also has the ability to separate trans people for a legitimate means.

Peeps getting wound up over things that already exist in effect today.

Time for a new hobby area!

So they're dropping self-ID in favour of issuing a GRC through a process of ermm....... self identification? Is that correct?

Bear in mind this has not been voted for. It’s a proposal. Hopefully, it will be voted out!

• Seek to tackle misogyny as one of the root causes of violence against women and girls by preventing algorithms from promoting harmful content online and making tackling misogyny a key part of school accountability

This is just bad, I know they want it to be good, but I cannot see it having a great outcome. Don't we know how this kind of stuff goes in schools, it takes a ton of administrative effort, and just doesn't help. But can end up sometimes having bizarre outcomes in the class and school as they try and apply blanket approaches.

And hate speech laws are not good either IMO, they don't help but do become a means of control.

I need to know where Labour stands on women’s safety, it dictates how I vote.

I've voted Labour - probably out of habit - all my life. I won't vote for them until they return to their old policies either.

I have no idea what they stand for any more.

ETA I'm disabled and was told by the advisor who helps me claim my benefits that they expect Labour to be harsher with disability benefits. But not so up-front about their restrictions! It took me YEARS to get benefits as I simply had no support. My surgery won't write supporting letters (even if I had a single GP who knew my difficulties).

Since finally finding a benefits advisor who would see me (my county doesn't have one!), I've filled in forms properly and been able to get copies of my records for support. I was given a 10-year award as my condition is a degenerating one. I dread going back in 2 years to re-apply. I suspect I'm far from the only person who feels like this.

I have never felt more politically homeless.

Indeed, when I hear people complaining the process to get a GRC is humiliating and invasive, I can only hope they never have to claim Universal Credit.

Labour know that most disabled people would vote for them and wouldn't vote Tory, so they've no need to try to please them to get their votes!