Anyone know about this Good Law Project Legal Action?

[WhatsthetruthRuth]

To protect transgender rights to access healthcare and brought on behalf of a transgender teenager?
mobile.twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1327157754830708736

No idea sorry

But trans awareness week what? I thought it was anti-bullying week...surely they haven't got the whole thing to themselves already, it hasn't started yet!

I'll be back later to see other replies me maybe learns thing or two about what Foxy is up to.

The big one is next week:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Day_of_Remembrance

Transgender Awareness Week from today is the build up to that.

'launching legal action to ensure the law to protect the right of trans people to access healthcare is upheld'

I didn't realise that trans people were PREVENTED from accessing healthcare! That is appalling!

Surely everyone in this country has the same right where accessing healthcare is concerned, whether they use it or not?

Yes everyone does have the same access to health care

Is it about puberty blockers I wonder.

Who knows? I expect we will find out soon enough, though.

i am not keen on the implication that members of the population who are trans have less access to healthcare than the wider population. I am afraid that I am cynical and imagine that this is more about wants than needs.

This fox-killing Jolyon dude is a joke. A couple of years ago he came out in support of the GC position with regard to all women’s shortlists. He got a little bit of backlash which he as a self-employed male lawyer (ie the type of person able to withstand this sort of shit and getting nothing like the abuse GC women get) which he couldn’t handle, so he backtracked and is now famous for blocking any woman who disagrees with him. He will regularly tweet some glib crap like ‘trans women are real women’ or ‘all trans teens attempt suicide’ and then talk about the hate he is getting, while wearing out the block button. He’s pathetic.
Weirdly enough, he tweeted his admiration for Joanna Cherry the other day and was jumped on by the woke mob. It’s bizarre and I suspect he knows full well what he thinks on this but is the world’s biggest coward and thinks that inciting pile-ons on women who disagree with his statements is a good way of deflecting attention and looking good.
He’s basically a slightly older Owen Jones.

Why not. It's not like there's a global pandemic and healthcare crisis going on. Impeccable timing.

I think it is excellent news. The more sunlight the better. The fact a number of "well-known" charities are also involved will also be useful.

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Ah yes I remember now, the day we have to bow our heads and remember the one trans victim of murder (Naomi Hersi, the murdered, a man, went to jail. It followed a drugs binge and orgy according to the papers that covered the trial) in the UK and the 350 approx other trans victims from around the world in the last decade (I say approx as in 2018 is was 331 globally and I'm sure the number has gone up as 130 of the 331 were killed in Brazil and a good number of that group were prostitutes and were high risk because of that.)

Every death by violence is horrific but we don't have a day of remembrance for all the women or all the men or for all the children for that matter.

I still find it odd that it's so close to Armistice Day as well.

@OhHolyJesus

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Ah yes I remember now, the day we have to bow our heads and remember the one trans victim of murder (Naomi Hersi, the murdered, a man, went to jail. It followed a drugs binge and orgy according to the papers that covered the trial) in the UK and the 350 approx other trans victims from around the world in the last decade (I say approx as in 2018 is was 331 globally and I'm sure the number has gone up as 130 of the 331 were killed in Brazil and a good number of that group were prostitutes and were high risk because of that.)

Every death by violence is horrific but we don't have a day of remembrance for all the women or all the men or for all the children for that matter.

I still find it odd that it's so close to Armistice Day as well.

No day of remembrance either for gay men who suffered horrifically under the criminal law that banned homosexuality. We get told that transwomen (apparently transmen don’t matter) are murdered in droves, there’s absolutely zero evidence that this is the case, yet it’s repeated constantly as some sort of mantra.

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

I think it is excellent news. The more sunlight the better. The fact a number of "well-known" charities are also involved will also be useful.

My thoughts exactly.

I have a feeling Foxy Kimono and his fishy friends will regret asking the even more members of the judiciary to look through their metaphorical knicker drawers.

Would be good if a judge could rule on the stupidity of changing one’s biological sex marker on the NHS register though - that’s why trans people are being excluded from accessing the same health care as everyone else - eg you won’t get a smear test reminder if you’ve changed your NHS record from F to M.

On the trans U.K. subreddit people are reporting changing their medical records before they’ve even got a gender dysphoria diagnosis, and then getting huffy when their blood test results flag up as abnormal (despite being in the normal range for their sex).

launching legal action to ensure the law to protect the right of trans people to access healthcare is upheld.

‘Healthcare’ isn’t the word I’d use for medically unnecessary and often experimental drugs/surgery, with harmful long-term effects, especially on children and teenagers.

Foxy Kimono

Very much agree that this may well end up filed under “be careful what you wish for”. In the sense that if I was launching an action to support a particular intervention, I’d want to be very, very sure that intervention had a solid, fact based stack of evidence supporting it.

@SophocIestheFox

Foxy Kimono

Very much agree that this may well end up filed under “be careful what you wish for”. In the sense that if I was launching an action to support a particular intervention, I’d want to be very, very sure that intervention had a solid, fact based stack of evidence supporting it.

Yeah, I mean the tide is changing on this. Charities like Mermaids are on their last legs and about to go the way of Kids Company. All you need is a few more lawsuits from detransitioners and you’re in quite dicey territory. Obviously I believe trans youth should have rapid access to MH services and support and therapy but I suspect that this is about surgery and blockers rather than that. Not the sort of thing I’d be promoting but then again this idiot thought that it was a good idea to brag about illegally clubbing a wild animal to death. But if you look at the replies, he’s been told that he’s a good cis ally and can even go on a podcast run by a trans person, although the earliest available slot is September 2021. So that’s gotta be worth it, right?

I saw that post, reality, I did a very unladylike snort-laugh at it