To be terrified about what will happen if the Gender Identity Bill is passed?

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I'm a nervous wreck right now

Will it replace sex as a protected characteristic? Does that mean that women will have no legal protection at all?

I'm scared .

Yes Onion that's right.

YANBU, and I will go to prison rather than go along with this bullshit. If I want a female/woman doctor or rape crisis counselor I will ask for one, and I will specify 'not a trans woman'.

Fucking hell

I think you need to calm down.....

No I will not calm down.

Nor will I STFU about this.

Onion, yes. But because women are less strong than men and far, far less likely to be violent, statistically, it's likely to be more of a problem for women than for men.
Also, unbelievably, they're keeping an exception for hereditary peerages and estates, so if you're an older daughter of a peer and you transition to male, it won't matter, your brother will still inherit the money and titles.
It's pretty disgustingly sexist really.

I still cant get passed a man saying he 'identifies' as a woman because he 'always felt like a woman'... But you have never been a woman, you don't know how it 'feels'

It scares me as the mother of a daughter how backwards our society is becoming on women's rights. We should all be kicking up a fuss about this. I don't want people with male genitals in women's changing rooms with me or my daughter.

Is that right Countess?

That adds a fresh new level of what the fuckness...

Let's just say this law is passed and it replaces sex.

It means that your frail elderly mother or father wouldn't be able to ask to be bathed by someone of the same sex. They could only request someone who identifies as a man or a woman but might not necessarily be a man/woman.

Are you really okay with that? Really now?

I am fairly supportive of trans issues but this is taking it a step too far, if it can even be called a trans issue.

YANBU. It's bloody terrifying.

Anyone concerned (and you all should be) please please please write to your MPs.

Those not bothered about it - are you happy for a male to share a shower space at your gym or swimming pool? If you object and speak out about it you'd potentially be committing a hate crime

'It scares me as the mother of a daughter how backwards our society is becoming on women's rights.'

Yes, precisely.
I have a daughter and two sons and I weep for my daughter and the freedoms I have that she won't.

Or happy with a male carrying out your smear test when you request female? Because he self identifies as a woman?

These are very real possibilitiea

NO WAY! TheCountess I suppose you're in a position to know, I did not know that about hereditary peerages. Tells you all you really need to know about this agenda.

Has anybody actually seen the wording of the bill or know its contents? It doesn't seem to have been published yet. services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/genderidentityprotectedcharacteristic.html

Can someone who understands more about this help me?

That is what this new bill means, right? Sex will be replaced with gender ID. That's how I understand it. Someone please tell me I'm wrong

Does anyone know when the bill is being 'heard' or whatever the correct term is?

This is utter fucking madness.

Can I identify as my MP to vote against it?

Cherry second reading is tabled for 24 March.

I'm thinking about all of the embarrassing invasive procedures that I could go through as a bloke and obviously I'd be more comfortable with a male doctor or nurse etc so the fact that it could be a female doctor doing it is worrying.

Obviously this applies to women too.

Fucking hell.

But it's gender identity. That still means that anyone could say "I'm a woman" and that will have to be accepted and you couldn't challenge it. Even if they had a dick and full length beard.

Please tell me I'm wrong

Can I identify as my MP to vote against it?

That actually made me Toast.

Thanks for cheering me up a bit

So when may this bill be passed and is there anything more than writing to our MPs that can be done about it?

Nobody can tell you you are wrong yet as the text has not yet been released. Once it has then this discussion can take place.