@AuntyFungal
I get Labour want self ID. I just can’t find it on their website.
I want to see if there’s been any analysis of proposed changes and their effects.
I want to see/hear from Labour (or the other parties) what this would mean in law. Consequences of the changes to the GRA/GRC and how this would affect the Eq Act - either intended or unintended. Because it will.
& not just Eq Act. It will bleed into other areas. SEND, Children’s Act, Education Act, Health, Employment etc…. Change one thing and you will need to change other dependent sections of legislation.
This is why I want to see the politicians pinned down on what they want to change & then the journo follow the thread. This has always gone beyond women’s and children’s rights. It’s just we’re the ones are the sharp end.
I want to hear more than the pithy sound bites and tired tropes.
This.
I'm interested to see whether there would be a reversal process allowed. The GRC process effectively kills the prior identity and creates a new one, which causes havoc with medical, NI and tax records. In the new identity, you have no right to access the records of the former identity. In many ways, it is a similar situation to someone who is legally declared dead by mistake.
If self-id echoes this process, then there will need to be checks and balances to avoid self-id-ers from losing the connection to their former records held under their deadname/deadgender -- this is very awkward under GDPR.
There will also need to be a mechanism by which informed consent is given and verified to prevent the system being misused, abused or people being coerced. Would it, for example, be an easier way to side-step the consequences of criminal convictions, bankruptcies?
The only conceptual approach I can see that would work in terms of legislation is to approach each individual as "an unsubscribed unit" that then acquires "subscriptions" as they journey through life, and that these subscriptions can change as and when: name, gender/sex, disability, maternity, age, race, religion, marital status etc. So no-one is ever perceived to be a constant member of a specific class, iyswim; everything is in flux.
But something will need to be static for identity purposes. What will that be, aside from birth date?
It's really odd that Labour, with their background in class consciousness and their obsession with identity politics, do not see this.
It's also, obviously, supportive of performance as "reality". This, I find, even more alarming.