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Europe must not erase sex - We must resist the imposition of activist fantasies

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IwantToRetire · 30/10/2025 01:56

When, in mid-October, MPs from the broad left-wing bloc Nouveau Front Populaire tabled a proposal in the French Parliament to remove sex from national identity cards, they prefaced it with an explanation: having one’s sex recorded on identity documents, they claimed, is bad for equality, bad for women, and especially bad for those who identify as transgender. “It is common for an individual’s appearance not to correspond to the stereotypes associated with the sex recorded on their official papers,” they argued, followed by a non sequitur of the highest order: that sex itself is an outdated stereotype.

Feminist discussion groups exploded. One woman asked, “What happened to the French? Have they gone mad?” Truth be told, the same question could be asked of many nations today: have the Irish, Portuguese, Belgians, Germans and others gone mad? And if they have not, what explains why legislators across so many states are suddenly deciding that biological sex — not only a basic fact of human reproduction but a cornerstone of equality and non-discrimination law — is a relic of the past to be discarded like phrenology or geocentrism?

The almost 70 left-wing MPs who backed the proposal in the French National Assembly also claimed that, unlike a person’s height — also recorded on ID cards — recording a person’s sex is not in line with international human rights standards set by the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union. Considering recent developments in these institutions, it seems, at least on the surface, difficult to argue against that claim.

Article continues at https://thecritic.co.uk/europe-must-not-erase-sex/

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HousePlantEmergency · 02/11/2025 11:01

Namelessnelly · 02/11/2025 06:24

I don’t think it’s their thighs they’re rubbing….

Yeah I know, I was just trying to be polite 😬

Europe must not erase sex - We must resist the imposition of activist fantasies
PriOn1 · 02/11/2025 10:51

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 06:41

Dear Taztoy,

I am very sorry to hear of your rape & suffering. Of course I condemn rape & fully support the laws that prevent & punish rapists.

But I don't agree that trans women should be held responsible for the violence of cis men any more than all lesbians should be held responsible for the violence of some lesbians. Nor do I believe banning trans women or lesbians from public utilities would change the opportunistic nature of criminals so in that sense I consider banning trans women or lesbians an illogicality.

While I fully appreciate the presence of men can trigger post traumatic stress in sexual assault victims I don't think that justifies creating a situation where trans women are more at risk of sexual assault or not able to use necessary public utilities for the same fears of being assaulted or that cis women who are gender non conforming may be harassed as being suspected of being male. Hopefully, we can eventually reach a conclusion where competing needs can be met in re configuring public bathrooms where all will be safe.

I also worry that all this all consuming focus on bathrooms distracts us applying political pressure in finding real solutions to violence & sexual violence.

Thought I might translate some of this into plain English, so we can see the arguments more clearly:

I don't agree that men who demand entrance to women’s spaces should be held responsible for the violence of men who don’t demand access to women’s spaces any more than all lesbians should be held responsible for the violence of some lesbians.

Noteworthy here is that the group “some lesbians” is a subset of the group “all lesbians”, whereas the two groups of men described are separate.

Nor do I believe banning men who demand access to women’s spaces or lesbians from women’s spaces…

Nobody is demanding lesbians should be banned from using women’s spaces. Whatever follows, bear in mind that this particular argument is a straw man from this point on. Note also, in the original version, the straw man argument is doubled up, because instead of truthfully owning the fact that the discussion is about women’s facilities, the lie that the discussion is about all “public utilities” is inserted.

You know, I’m already thinking that, anyone who has to insert so many lies into their arguments, is probably so used to lying that they no longer know when they are doing it.

Anyway, having established that inserting lesbians into this argument is simply a red herring, I shall remove them so we can see what is really being argued is clearer.

Nor do I believe banning men who demand access to women’s spaces from women’s spaces would change the opportunistic nature of criminals

Well no, it wouldn’t change the opportunistic nature of criminals, that much is correct. What it would do however, is ensure that opportunistic male criminals are offered more opportunities to have access to women in spaces from which they previously could have more easily been excluded or expelled.

so in that sense I consider banning men who demand access to women’s spaces from women’s spaces an illogicality.

If, as a man, you want access to women’s spaces and don’t care that your access means that opportunistic male criminals will also gain access, then you probably would pretend you think women’s arguments are illogical. As we can see, someone here is being highly illogical, but it isn’t the women who want single sex spaces.

As a male person, I can’t really appreciate how the presence of men can trigger post traumatic stress in female sexual assault victims

No man can really understand that, even though some pay lip service to doing so, especially when they want to appear empathetic so as to push their own agenda.

I don't think that justifies creating a situation where men who demand access to women’s spaces are more at risk of sexual assault or not able to use men’s spaces for the same fears of being assaulted

This comes down to men being more likely to assault other men than women being likely to assault other women. Men being more violent to one another and committing more sexual assault than women does not justify some men being given access to women’s spaces to keep them safe. Women’s spaces are not there to keep vulnerable men safe. Of course, in most circumstances, for example in most workplaces, men dressed as women are highly unlikely to be sexually assaulted in the correct facilities with the other men. That’s why the even more nonsensical argument that people will be forced to “out themselves” at work is now being employed. We can see why all these lies require multiple levels of inconsistency. What a tangled web we weave, springs to mind.

or that masculine women may be harassed as being suspected of being male.

Women don’t generally harass masculine women and no man making this argument really cares. This is another argument that purports to show empathy to women, but really is simply used to shore up the argument for allowing men into women’s spaces.

“Hopefully, we can eventually reach a conclusion where competing needs can be met in re configuring public bathrooms where all will be safe.”

I think we all hope for this. It can’t be achieved however, by forcing men into women’s spaces. How it will eventually look will perhaps depend upon those men finally stopping their unreasonable demand to have access to women’s spaces and start to push towards a solution where everyone’s needs are genuinely considered.

Namelessnelly · 02/11/2025 06:24

HousePlantEmergency · 31/10/2025 09:20

I've absolutely been guilty of engaging with certain posters on this forum, that in hindsight, I shouldn't have done. It's a pointless exercise because certain posters are not here to respectfully discuss issues. They're here because they get great pleasure in upsetting women.

So, I'm no longer going to engage with them at all. I'd never suggest to anyone else what they should post and who they should reply to, but for me, I think simply ignoring them now is the best thing.
Just glide on by and engage with those that have a brain and live in the real world.
Certain posters will eventually fade away once their opportunity to rub their thighs with glee when they've pissed off women disappears.

I don’t think it’s their thighs they’re rubbing….

Namelessnelly · 02/11/2025 06:23

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 06:41

Dear Taztoy,

I am very sorry to hear of your rape & suffering. Of course I condemn rape & fully support the laws that prevent & punish rapists.

But I don't agree that trans women should be held responsible for the violence of cis men any more than all lesbians should be held responsible for the violence of some lesbians. Nor do I believe banning trans women or lesbians from public utilities would change the opportunistic nature of criminals so in that sense I consider banning trans women or lesbians an illogicality.

While I fully appreciate the presence of men can trigger post traumatic stress in sexual assault victims I don't think that justifies creating a situation where trans women are more at risk of sexual assault or not able to use necessary public utilities for the same fears of being assaulted or that cis women who are gender non conforming may be harassed as being suspected of being male. Hopefully, we can eventually reach a conclusion where competing needs can be met in re configuring public bathrooms where all will be safe.

I also worry that all this all consuming focus on bathrooms distracts us applying political pressure in finding real solutions to violence & sexual violence.

How about instead of coming on here scolding women for refusing to allow men into female spaces, you go and do work with your fellow men to stop them raping, bearing and killing women? If you’re so concerned about violence towards women and girls, stop haranguing the victims and go and deal with the perpetrators. If you’d spent half the time doing that that you spend being horrible to women on here, maybe you might have achieved something.

HildegardP · 01/11/2025 21:29

This is the dead hand of Michael O'Flaherty at work. It's a surprise to absolutely nobody that a failed Irish Catholic priest of his vintage is imbued with sexism & misogyny to his very marrow.

TheKeatingFive · 31/10/2025 09:28

I don't engage with the incels. They're just awful, irredeemable people.

HousePlantEmergency · 31/10/2025 09:20

I've absolutely been guilty of engaging with certain posters on this forum, that in hindsight, I shouldn't have done. It's a pointless exercise because certain posters are not here to respectfully discuss issues. They're here because they get great pleasure in upsetting women.

So, I'm no longer going to engage with them at all. I'd never suggest to anyone else what they should post and who they should reply to, but for me, I think simply ignoring them now is the best thing.
Just glide on by and engage with those that have a brain and live in the real world.
Certain posters will eventually fade away once their opportunity to rub their thighs with glee when they've pissed off women disappears.

Taztoy · 31/10/2025 09:11

sanluca · 31/10/2025 08:19

Maybe if women didn't have to spend all their time defending their rights to transactivists, we could spend our time on actually stopping the increasing violence against women and girls.
Maybe transactivists could help women and girls in making women and girls safer, but no, they spend all their time undoing any safeguarding by punching great big holes in social conventions that women and girls rely on to be able to keep all men out of womens facilities.

Despicable behaviour, maybe you should reflect on the issues you are causing before telling women off for their traumas

This.

EdithStourton · 31/10/2025 08:34

sanluca · 31/10/2025 08:19

Maybe if women didn't have to spend all their time defending their rights to transactivists, we could spend our time on actually stopping the increasing violence against women and girls.
Maybe transactivists could help women and girls in making women and girls safer, but no, they spend all their time undoing any safeguarding by punching great big holes in social conventions that women and girls rely on to be able to keep all men out of womens facilities.

Despicable behaviour, maybe you should reflect on the issues you are causing before telling women off for their traumas

100%.

I can't wait for half term/ reading week to be over.... (though this one sounds familiar - I don't know where he finds the time).

The millisecond I read the word 'cis' I conclude that the poster has no respect for women.

I now bitterly resent the people who have caused women to waste so much time, energy and money defending the position we fought so hard for.

Their selfishness and self-absoprtion blows my mind.

sanluca · 31/10/2025 08:19

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 06:41

Dear Taztoy,

I am very sorry to hear of your rape & suffering. Of course I condemn rape & fully support the laws that prevent & punish rapists.

But I don't agree that trans women should be held responsible for the violence of cis men any more than all lesbians should be held responsible for the violence of some lesbians. Nor do I believe banning trans women or lesbians from public utilities would change the opportunistic nature of criminals so in that sense I consider banning trans women or lesbians an illogicality.

While I fully appreciate the presence of men can trigger post traumatic stress in sexual assault victims I don't think that justifies creating a situation where trans women are more at risk of sexual assault or not able to use necessary public utilities for the same fears of being assaulted or that cis women who are gender non conforming may be harassed as being suspected of being male. Hopefully, we can eventually reach a conclusion where competing needs can be met in re configuring public bathrooms where all will be safe.

I also worry that all this all consuming focus on bathrooms distracts us applying political pressure in finding real solutions to violence & sexual violence.

Maybe if women didn't have to spend all their time defending their rights to transactivists, we could spend our time on actually stopping the increasing violence against women and girls.
Maybe transactivists could help women and girls in making women and girls safer, but no, they spend all their time undoing any safeguarding by punching great big holes in social conventions that women and girls rely on to be able to keep all men out of womens facilities.

Despicable behaviour, maybe you should reflect on the issues you are causing before telling women off for their traumas

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 31/10/2025 07:29

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 06:41

Dear Taztoy,

I am very sorry to hear of your rape & suffering. Of course I condemn rape & fully support the laws that prevent & punish rapists.

But I don't agree that trans women should be held responsible for the violence of cis men any more than all lesbians should be held responsible for the violence of some lesbians. Nor do I believe banning trans women or lesbians from public utilities would change the opportunistic nature of criminals so in that sense I consider banning trans women or lesbians an illogicality.

While I fully appreciate the presence of men can trigger post traumatic stress in sexual assault victims I don't think that justifies creating a situation where trans women are more at risk of sexual assault or not able to use necessary public utilities for the same fears of being assaulted or that cis women who are gender non conforming may be harassed as being suspected of being male. Hopefully, we can eventually reach a conclusion where competing needs can be met in re configuring public bathrooms where all will be safe.

I also worry that all this all consuming focus on bathrooms distracts us applying political pressure in finding real solutions to violence & sexual violence.

'Trans' IDing men are men, let men deal with their own issues and stop expecting women to clear up all the mess they make.

If you want to focus on finding real solutions for violence and sexual violence, first you have to acknowledge that the most violence is perpetrated by men and that such a thing as sex exists and that sex is immutable and cannot be changed.

Most of the violence 'trans' IDing people face is from they're own community, not the community at large, find away to make that community less toxic and you might solve the problems 'trans' IDing people face.

Single sex spaces are wanted and necessary, end of. We don't need to have a reason for it, because we want them is enough. No men in women's spaces, it don't come simpler than that.

Queensland is changing things in Australia, with any luck. they'll drag the rest of the country bad to sanity.

Taztoy · 31/10/2025 06:51

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 06:41

Dear Taztoy,

I am very sorry to hear of your rape & suffering. Of course I condemn rape & fully support the laws that prevent & punish rapists.

But I don't agree that trans women should be held responsible for the violence of cis men any more than all lesbians should be held responsible for the violence of some lesbians. Nor do I believe banning trans women or lesbians from public utilities would change the opportunistic nature of criminals so in that sense I consider banning trans women or lesbians an illogicality.

While I fully appreciate the presence of men can trigger post traumatic stress in sexual assault victims I don't think that justifies creating a situation where trans women are more at risk of sexual assault or not able to use necessary public utilities for the same fears of being assaulted or that cis women who are gender non conforming may be harassed as being suspected of being male. Hopefully, we can eventually reach a conclusion where competing needs can be met in re configuring public bathrooms where all will be safe.

I also worry that all this all consuming focus on bathrooms distracts us applying political pressure in finding real solutions to violence & sexual violence.

I have never harassed any woman for being gender non conforming. You are no doubt aware that women are much better than men at identifying sex correctly?

Your “dear” comes across as patronising given that it’s not your normal way to open a post. You might want to bear that in mind.

Trans women as a group sexually assault at the same offending pattern as men. Because they are men.

but my point wasn’t about the trans women it was about me, a woman, who has a legal right in the U.K. to single sex protection.

if trans women in the men’s bathrooms are more at risk of sexual assault (than what?) then that is a man problem. It isn’t women’s issue to solve.

again, as you do every time, you completely ignore the fact that I have a legal right to single sex spaces in the U.K. and you completely dismiss my trauma and that of millions of women like me.

The word is no. Men need to learn to accept it. Pushing back - as you are doing - is a slippery slope to rape in my opinion. It is a consent violation. I do not consent to a man in my lawful single sex space.

why should I be forced to stay at home because men won’t obey the law? By admitting men to women’s spaces you are excluding millions of women. And forcing them to stay at home to please a small percentage of men. And the law says no.

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 06:47

helluvatime · 31/10/2025 05:53

There are no competing rights between women and trans women because tw do not have any right to be categorised as female. The fact that in Australia sex is deemed to be changeable in law is ridiculous but it is not down to electorate approval so much as the electorate's ignorance that such an absurd idea could ever have become mainstream. That and a dollop of good old sexism.

The fact that it isn't an electoral issue in Australia means the electorate isn't interested in change despite every effort by propagandists to make it so. And that you assume ignorance is a very revealing tell the demand for women's spaces was never a grass roots issue but a top down one.

Thanks for the heads up.

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 06:41

Taztoy · 31/10/2025 05:58

@Howseitgoin I deeply object to you calling my right to sex based protections due to trauma as a result of my violent rape and sexual assault “manufactured moral panic”.

I can’t be behind a door where there is a man on the other side.

unless a trans woman gets extensive surgery they always code as male to me. Their voices are male. They look male. They are men.

I am legally entitled to the protection of single sex spaces and the fact that you categorise my trauma as “moral panic” is abhorrent.

where is your condemnation of the man who violently raped me? Where is your condemnation of the police for the further trauma they heaped upon me?

how about we start with the boundary pushing men who can’t be told no, instead of victim blaming women like me?

Dear Taztoy,

I am very sorry to hear of your rape & suffering. Of course I condemn rape & fully support the laws that prevent & punish rapists.

But I don't agree that trans women should be held responsible for the violence of cis men any more than all lesbians should be held responsible for the violence of some lesbians. Nor do I believe banning trans women or lesbians from public utilities would change the opportunistic nature of criminals so in that sense I consider banning trans women or lesbians an illogicality.

While I fully appreciate the presence of men can trigger post traumatic stress in sexual assault victims I don't think that justifies creating a situation where trans women are more at risk of sexual assault or not able to use necessary public utilities for the same fears of being assaulted or that cis women who are gender non conforming may be harassed as being suspected of being male. Hopefully, we can eventually reach a conclusion where competing needs can be met in re configuring public bathrooms where all will be safe.

I also worry that all this all consuming focus on bathrooms distracts us applying political pressure in finding real solutions to violence & sexual violence.

Taztoy · 31/10/2025 05:58

@Howseitgoin I deeply object to you calling my right to sex based protections due to trauma as a result of my violent rape and sexual assault “manufactured moral panic”.

I can’t be behind a door where there is a man on the other side.

unless a trans woman gets extensive surgery they always code as male to me. Their voices are male. They look male. They are men.

I am legally entitled to the protection of single sex spaces and the fact that you categorise my trauma as “moral panic” is abhorrent.

where is your condemnation of the man who violently raped me? Where is your condemnation of the police for the further trauma they heaped upon me?

how about we start with the boundary pushing men who can’t be told no, instead of victim blaming women like me?

helluvatime · 31/10/2025 05:53

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 01:40

"This is an interesting post. It seems to approve of the exclusion of transwomen from women only space/sports etc., and the reaffirmation of 'sex' as meaning 'biological sex' by the UK Supreme Court."

Nope, not absolutely as I take a more nuanced position. It's just making the point that competing rights can & have been managed where jurisdictions allow. That the details haven't been ironed out in the UK yet is a function of process rather than an impossibility. Practical policy assessment & implementation takes time given the obvious widespread ramifications. Will everyone be happy? Welcome political reality where everyone rarely is. The social contract requires us all to make compromises that mature adults understand.

"does not apply in jurisdictions where the category of biological sex has been eliminated from legislation."

I live in Australia where sex is deemed as changeable under law & there isn't any meaningful electoral pressure to change that so that's irrelevant & will likely to continue to be so since our population hasn't been subjected to a full blown media driven manufactured moral panic.

There are no competing rights between women and trans women because tw do not have any right to be categorised as female. The fact that in Australia sex is deemed to be changeable in law is ridiculous but it is not down to electorate approval so much as the electorate's ignorance that such an absurd idea could ever have become mainstream. That and a dollop of good old sexism.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 31/10/2025 05:44

Taztoy · 31/10/2025 05:33

The details have been ironed out in the U.K. by the SC. Sex means sex here and thank god for it.

Agreed. The return to reality is so important. A society that makes laws promoting lies, delusions and fantasies is heading nowhere. Everyone knows that only women give birth / have the potential to give birth. Sadly social media has "empowered " the flat earthers in their basements to try to overturn laws, the social contract and relaity - to the detriment of women and girls.

Taztoy · 31/10/2025 05:33

The details have been ironed out in the U.K. by the SC. Sex means sex here and thank god for it.

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 01:40

MarieDeGournay · 30/10/2025 09:50

'...manage competing rights which we clearly can by laws that allow for discrimination if compelling reasons exist.'

This is an interesting post. It seems to approve of the exclusion of transwomen from women only space/sports etc., and the reaffirmation of 'sex' as meaning 'biological sex' by the UK Supreme Court.

Am I reading the post right as a massive leap towards biological realism? A crack in the TWAW monolith? A pragmatic response to seeing that, as court decision after court decision rules against gender ideology, the game is up?

This is the situation on Terf Island, where the rule of law is tending to side with verifiable scientific reality.

However, the thread is about Europe, and the sensible workaround and exclusions and "proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim" can only exist where biological sex is officially recognised and explicitly mentioned in legislation.

Where the category 'sex' has been replaced by the word 'gender', women have no status as such in law, and cannot claim discrimination on the grounds of sex.

Biological males who say they are women must be treated as women under the law. There are no women-only space protected as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim, because 'woman' also means 'men'.

When the protected characteristic under equality legislation is 'gender' not 'sex',
a women's prison, a women's society, a women's refuge must admit a man who defines his gender identity as 'woman'. His right to be considered as a woman is protected by equality legislation which is based on gender not sex.

Howse's comforting 'laws that allow for discrimination if compelling reasons exist.' can only operate if there is something to discriminate about, i.e. women and men having status as separate social groups under equality legislation.

So Howse's suggestion that there is no conflict between trans rights and women's rights, because look how we're muddling through working things out in the UK, does not apply in jurisdictions where the category of biological sex has been eliminated from legislation.

"This is an interesting post. It seems to approve of the exclusion of transwomen from women only space/sports etc., and the reaffirmation of 'sex' as meaning 'biological sex' by the UK Supreme Court."

Nope, not absolutely as I take a more nuanced position. It's just making the point that competing rights can & have been managed where jurisdictions allow. That the details haven't been ironed out in the UK yet is a function of process rather than an impossibility. Practical policy assessment & implementation takes time given the obvious widespread ramifications. Will everyone be happy? Welcome political reality where everyone rarely is. The social contract requires us all to make compromises that mature adults understand.

"does not apply in jurisdictions where the category of biological sex has been eliminated from legislation."

I live in Australia where sex is deemed as changeable under law & there isn't any meaningful electoral pressure to change that so that's irrelevant & will likely to continue to be so since our population hasn't been subjected to a full blown media driven manufactured moral panic.

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 01:21

Justwrong68 · 30/10/2025 10:54

You’ve reached peak bollocks here. Lived experience as a female shows you that men will try desperately to procreate with you regardless of sexual attractiveness or femininity. Just having a vagina will do, the rest is social construct. Chat not is not your friend.

You are conflating two different concepts. I'm not suggesting people making themselves more attractive to the opposite sex is the only requirement for them to be attractive rather there's an inclination to do so which bears out in consumerist choices. Sales data don't lie.

Howseitgoin · 31/10/2025 01:14

selffellatingouroborosofhate · 30/10/2025 09:12

If gendered presentation and behaviours are caused by sex and the expression of biological inclinations, why aren't they the same for women the world over and throughout history?

We are not "naive" when we argue that patriarchy imposes gender on us. The imposition of sartorial norms by sex the world over is so that men, with their impaired ability to judge sex based on face and gait and skeletal structure, don't mistake women for men. Without them, a man might make a sexual overture to another man, grant a woman access to a men's space, or fail to prevent a woman from doing a "man's" activity.. What those sartorial norms look isn't based on biology, but on culture, which is why they vary the world over. And they harm women because they exist as a tool of male supremacy. Women don't need them because we can detect men reliably without them.

"If gendered presentation and behaviours are caused by sex and the expression of biological inclinations, why aren't they the same for women the world over and throughout history?"

Cultural pressures have a habit of repressing natural urges. See: Closeted homosexuals & veiled women. Therefore any reliable assessment needs to be undertaken in more egalitarian countries of which sex differences in behaviour have been shown to be even greater.

https://2024.sci-hub.ru/7108/9ac6bb052a6e0092264ca5f4c6f7a414/macgiolla2018.pdf

Sex Differences in Personality are larger in Gender Equal Countries: Replicating and Extending a Surprising Finding: SEX DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY

https://2024.sci-hub.ru/7108/9ac6bb052a6e0092264ca5f4c6f7a414/macgiolla2018.pdf

EmmyFr · 30/10/2025 20:04

Nope, they may totally wipe out the center-left but not win in the foreseeable future, if anything the far right (kind of Reform like, although they are much more in favour of public spending than say Labour) could be the next party in power. Not that it pleases me.
But it's a shitshow, honestly. I'm ashamed for them all and of us for voting them in.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 30/10/2025 19:37

EmmyFr · 30/10/2025 19:21

Just to be clear, not "they". A group of far-left MPs, the equivalent of Corbynites (including with respect to ambiguous positions re antisemitism) who do not hold the majority of Parliament (not that the rest aren't clowns...) France is currently much less enthralled by GI than many countries, eg we have legal sex change but at least the birth certificate is never changed (the mention of legal sex change is added on the side but never replaces "birth sex")

And it's a fact that there are lots of official data using parental place of birth, previous citizenship, date of arrival in France and the likes, whatever your former landlady claimed. Only race and ethnicity are illegal personal info to collect. That's what made me react strongly.

But with Frances politics being in such turmoil, are the far-left group likely to gain more power?
Good on France for not changing birth sex, if only our plonkers had been that sensible.

EmmyFr · 30/10/2025 19:21

JellySaurus · 30/10/2025 17:57

And it looks like they want to do the same thing, again. Only this time with sex.

Just to be clear, not "they". A group of far-left MPs, the equivalent of Corbynites (including with respect to ambiguous positions re antisemitism) who do not hold the majority of Parliament (not that the rest aren't clowns...) France is currently much less enthralled by GI than many countries, eg we have legal sex change but at least the birth certificate is never changed (the mention of legal sex change is added on the side but never replaces "birth sex")

And it's a fact that there are lots of official data using parental place of birth, previous citizenship, date of arrival in France and the likes, whatever your former landlady claimed. Only race and ethnicity are illegal personal info to collect. That's what made me react strongly.

IwantToRetire · 30/10/2025 17:58

Have only just come back to this thread that I started late last night.

What a waste of time posting the article.

Why is anyone spending time getting caught up in a known hijacker of threads.

I am sure there are relevant responses to the article amongst the 5 pages of response, but suspect the majority are those getting bogged down in whatabouterry.

So wont be reading.

Dont feed the trolls.

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