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Disability Rights: 50% of trans people are disabled

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Pluvia · 27/04/2025 13:53

The full statement is here:
https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disability-rights-uk-opposes-uk-supreme-court-ruling-‘biological-sex’?srsltid=AfmBOooL_DLt2ICsIzkNI8RfYmVptrvAcV4Z6sTZCnqR3o97kzFnwEFH

The opening paragraph is this:
Disability Rights UK is deeply saddened by the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that declares trans women are not 'biological women'. As part of a movement that has always called for ‘nothing about us without us’ – we’re particularly concerned by the court’s exclusion of Trans voices in their decision, and their failure to be led by the lived experience of one of society’s most silenced groups. Decisions about any group’s rights should never be made without the involvement of those most impacted.

Later it says:
Around half of Trans people are also Disabled. Government policies already place disproportionate barriers on accessing vital healthcare, and now this ruling also erodes their protections against discrimination.

Can it really be true that half the T population is disabled? All those strapping young men and women who've turned out to hiss and spit and threaten over the years would suggest otherwise. So would the huge, angry TW who has cut a decimating swathe through every woman-only service in my area, or the men in pink at last week's trans rights march moaning about the loos at Waterloo.

Is this lining up disabled loos for TWs?

Disability Rights UK opposes the UK Supreme Court ruling on ‘biological sex’ | Disability Rights UK

https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disability-rights-uk-opposes-uk-supreme-court-ruling-%E2%80%98biological-sex%E2%80%99?srsltid=AfmBOooL_DLt2ICsIzkNI8RfYmVptrvAcV4Z6sTZCnqR3o97kzFnwEFH

OP posts:
Shortshriftandlethal · 27/04/2025 14:02

Lots of people receiving disability benefits are receiving them not for physical disablities but for mental and emotional health issues..........as the recent attention given to the disability benefits bill revealed.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 27/04/2025 14:00

murasaki · 27/04/2025 13:58

I wonder if this includes autism, in which case possibly.

Almost certainly as an invisible disability so yes it doesn’t surprise me at all

TheCatsTongue · 27/04/2025 13:59

It really shouldn't be much of a stretch to think that someone who identifies are the opposite sex could also identify as being disabled even when they are not.

murasaki · 27/04/2025 13:58

I wonder if this includes autism, in which case possibly.

Arran2024 · 27/04/2025 13:56

There are always plenty of people in mobility scooters, with walking sticks at trans marches. I believe the drugs they take are really damaging. The fit, angry guys often aren't trans themselves, just protesting.