... Recognise the identity of trans school-age children and students in school settings, regardless of their legal gender/sex, including by allowing them to use their own names and pronouns, dress as they wish, and participate in sports and other activities according to their gender identity and expression.
... According to the commissioner, ‘national policies governing participation in sports should start from a position where trans people can participate according to their gender identity’. Meanwhile, we are told that everyone should be able to use ‘sanitation facilities’ according to their ‘gender identity’. The lunacy extends, of course, to prisons, where ‘unless they disagree, trans people should, in principle, be detained in accordance with their gender identity’.
... Of course there is a conflict, even over the meaning of the word ‘woman’. But, on that note, the commissioner has bought into the ideology hook line and sinker. She relegated women to a subclass when she wrote, ‘ensuring that trans women benefit from the same protection as all other women extends the reach of these protections and does not diminish them for cisgender women’.
The article goes on to say:
... While the UK has left the European Union we are, however, still members of the Council of Europe. Issue papers, not to mention resolutions of PACE (the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) impact us directly. Back in 2016 when self-identification of legal gender – another Mijatović recommendation – first raised its head in a House of Commons debate, Maria Miller MP cited an earlier Council of Europe resolution to justify the demands that her women and equalities committee was making on the government.
Is this right? ie is the UK still governed by the COE? Is the ECHR part of it. (Googling just brings up confusingly written articles.)
PS I hope the author of the article wont distract from the content as I really want to know how the UK is or might be impacted by this!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wed-be-wise-to-ignore-the-council-of-europes-transgender-nonsense/
This is the document https://www.coe.int/cs/web/commissioner/-/human-rights-of-trans-people-increased-visibility-and-legal-recognition-contrast-with-lived-experience-of-discrimination-violence