Manderleyagain Sorry in advance that this is so long.
I'm unfortunately not on twitter and I don't know how well our situation here was reported elsewhere, I and my local GC friends were flabbergasted tbh with how quickly and quietly it was rammed through, in an environment of complete ignorance as to its implications. The media coverage dealt entirely with trans boys, with ZERO discussion in the mainstream media about the implications for women. In fact just about the only serious point for discussion seemed to be whether age 15 was a good cut-off for this.
The only vocal opponent besides the Communist Party was the Orthodox Church which took the line that we have to show trans people compassion but God doesn't make mistakes etc. In other words, the whole thing was EXACTLY what TRAs love to see: it's dealt with as an issue of progressivism and tolerance; any argument against is seen as bigoted and right-wing; and no coverage was given to the communists, who are (as always) overlooked as irrelevant hyperacademic fuddy duddies who only deal in theoreticals anyway.
However -- national Communist parties do tend to consult each other and promote a cohesive ideology. It would not surprise me if other countries' national communist parties had the same take on this issue. (Fringe anticapitalist parties here in Greece supported the TRA side, btw.)
Unfortunately for PR, our Communist Party is also opposed to same-sex marriage, making it an easy target for anyone to accuse of bigotry. The party's objection to same-sex marriage is an objection to state-sanctioned marriage as a requirement for social protections in general. For example they say that women remain in marriages with violent husbands in order to maintain access to instruments like medical insurance -- the stance of the Communists is that rather than letting same-sex couples use each other for medical insurance, everyone should have medical insurance regardless of marital status.
It's this refusal to engage in the liberal system altogether, and rejection of hypocrisy, that gets us (I support this party) attacked as "homophobic" when in fact what we are is anti- "marriage as a prerequisite for social support like widows' pensions and medical insurance". But you can see clearly I think the potential for us to be written off as bigoted toward the entire LGBT. (And there is more to it than just this, which I could go into, but anyway, the basic idea is that our objection to passing individual pieces of 'progressive' legislation is that these do nothing to undermine or overturn a very coercive and unequal social structure, and that is the actual aim of the party so...)
I do want to say, without wanting to betray my GC credentials, that Greek society may have some built-in protections against this going completely haywire, at least in the short term and on a large scale. Transsexuals are housed with other transsexuals in a dedicated prison ward, not with women, and I haven't seen any evidence that this is due to change. UK style toilets where multiple people are using stalls separated by flimsy dividers are rare here. We never had Girl Guides and girls' schools and the like to begin with, as Greece went to unisex everything in the 70s from what I know. There is no changing clothes or showering for physical education class, and gyms are hard-up enough for cash that they would never want to alienate half their members to satisfy one member, wrt access to women's changing rooms. (I have belonged to 6 gyms in Greece and I am relatively confident that none of them would have risked losing their female members over this issue. We don't have franchise gyms here, they rely on personal relationships in their own communities.) We don't have an NHS. There has been no attempt to change language outside of hyperwoke LGBT circles. Absolutely no one thinks that TWAW (afaik), (although they do usually assume they're gay, which masks the dangers).
In other words, I'm not going about in fear due to this changed law, because Greek society for all its flaws does seem to operate with a degree of common sense currently absent from the UK, CA, and USA.
Purely anecdotal but in the 10 years I've lived here, I've never come across a trans person before (and I've lived in 5 different cities in that time, including the two largest cities in the country). DH worked in a high school for years and there was never even one trans student in all that time.
Perhaps one reason the LGB has supported this is that it would provide a path for same-sex couples to legally marry.
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