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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
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NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:05

Because they'd be the ones diagnosing gender dysphoria, and they aren't qualified to do so, as it's not their specialism (takes many years to qualify into psychiatry).

OvaHere · 03/06/2024 22:06

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 21:31

I think so. Until last year this was also the Conservative government position.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243
Update the Equality Act to make clear the characteristic “sex” is biological sex
Under the Equality Act 2010, providers are already able to restrict the use of spaces/services on the basis of sex and/or gender reassignment where justified. Further clarification is not necessary.

I can't find any quotes being explicitly clear on what I posted above. It's not really a lot to ask of Starmer that he qualifies whether he intends to include male GRC holders as female for the purpose of single sex exemptions.

Women have been asking this for some time including women in his own party and today would have been a great day to clear that up once and for all.

LastTrainEast · 03/06/2024 22:07

In my day men tended not to follow women and girls into changing rooms because of husbands and fathers so this all looks quite insane to me

BIossomtoes · 03/06/2024 22:08

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:05

Because they'd be the ones diagnosing gender dysphoria, and they aren't qualified to do so, as it's not their specialism (takes many years to qualify into psychiatry).

You know this how? Can you show me a reliable source that indicates that? Because I haven’t seen one.

Datun · 03/06/2024 22:08

She's terrifying. Especially to feminists

Bloody hell. When the mask drops, it positively plummets.

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 22:12

Datun · 03/06/2024 22:08

She's terrifying. Especially to feminists

Bloody hell. When the mask drops, it positively plummets.

yep.

I significantly doubt that the person making that statement is actually anyone who has been working with the various campaigns to protect female people by now. After post after post where it is clearly not their priority, then this.

EasternStandard · 03/06/2024 22:13

Datun · 03/06/2024 22:08

She's terrifying. Especially to feminists

Bloody hell. When the mask drops, it positively plummets.

Hmm odd one

BackToLurk · 03/06/2024 22:14

ArabellaScott · 03/06/2024 21:33

IMO only biological sex can be the basis for separate provision. I can’t think of a reason why ‘gender’ would ever be relevant.

Upthread, someone suggested a book group as the type of scenario where 'gender' would maybe be relevant.

Personally I agree that if sexes are separated by sex, it's sex that matters.

I suppose the test for the book club is can they legally exclude any male. On what grounds are they doing so? The EA would suggest they need a reason to.

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 22:16

OvaHere · 03/06/2024 22:06

I can't find any quotes being explicitly clear on what I posted above. It's not really a lot to ask of Starmer that he qualifies whether he intends to include male GRC holders as female for the purpose of single sex exemptions.

Women have been asking this for some time including women in his own party and today would have been a great day to clear that up once and for all.

I think we have securely established that Starmer has not been explicit here. That given his slippery wording, he has not been clear enough for some, but has most assuredly convinced others.

There has been absolutely no evidence that Starmer has ever used terms to clarify as the Tories have today.

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:17

BackToLurk · 03/06/2024 22:14

I suppose the test for the book club is can they legally exclude any male. On what grounds are they doing so? The EA would suggest they need a reason to.

If you had a rape / sexual or violent assault survivor in the group who actively avoids men. Would that be a proportionate reason? Or if it's a lesbian book club?

EasternStandard · 03/06/2024 22:19

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:15

Plenty of discussion on Labour's plans across the MSM. A GP is quoted giving their opinion on the proposal.

she added: “For most GPs, detailed management of gender dysphoria is outside of our area of expertise.”

Well that was brought up earlier and got the requisite emoji soup

BackToLurk · 03/06/2024 22:21

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:17

If you had a rape / sexual or violent assault survivor in the group who actively avoids men. Would that be a proportionate reason? Or if it's a lesbian book club?

It’s possible I suppose and then it’s about sex not gender. My point is I think (I’m tired) that there would never be a good reason to separate on gender - besides anything else it’s a deeply contested term. What are we saying. You can’t join the book club unless you wear frocks and like Sally Rooney

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:24

BackToLurk · 03/06/2024 22:21

It’s possible I suppose and then it’s about sex not gender. My point is I think (I’m tired) that there would never be a good reason to separate on gender - besides anything else it’s a deeply contested term. What are we saying. You can’t join the book club unless you wear frocks and like Sally Rooney

Fuck. That rules me out! 🤣

But yes, I know what you mean. The entire thing is a godawful, mangled, mess. How the hell did we get here?

EasternStandard · 03/06/2024 22:26

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:24

Fuck. That rules me out! 🤣

But yes, I know what you mean. The entire thing is a godawful, mangled, mess. How the hell did we get here?

The GRA, mostly. They didn’t think it through

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:28

Plus Stonewall et al.

ArabellaScott · 03/06/2024 22:34

BackToLurk · 03/06/2024 22:14

I suppose the test for the book club is can they legally exclude any male. On what grounds are they doing so? The EA would suggest they need a reason to.

Yeah. My view is that women sometimes want women only groups. Ditto men.

Datun · 03/06/2024 22:44

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 22:12

yep.

I significantly doubt that the person making that statement is actually anyone who has been working with the various campaigns to protect female people by now. After post after post where it is clearly not their priority, then this.

Yes I totally agree. They seem to be finding stuff out on the go, as it were. Certainly not been working at this for years like a lot of women here.

It's just not a priority. It's difficult to know what their priority is. But it's definitely not combatting anti-women policies under trans ideology.

And it can't possibly be to promote the labour party, because they're having the opposite of effect.

Some people just like a bit of aggro, I think.

grafittiartist · 03/06/2024 22:46

On newsnight right now

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:01

Helleofabore · 03/06/2024 21:53

Here I have lifted it from the transcript of the interview that you, yourself, keep posting.

She says:

"if you as an organization say this is the service we provide it is only for biological women, you can't be sued by someone with a gender recognition certificate"

She then goes on to discuss 'legal sex' and how legal sex has not changed Biological Sex. She then says:

”I said we clarifying the law to say that the equality act where it refers to sex is talking about biological sex”

Sure, she is confusing. But once you understand that she also seems to be attempting to escape the flak from activists in repeating that in some instances that male people will be still allowed into spaces designated for 'Biological Sex and those with gender of woman', you cut through some of the confusion.

It also helps to not go into listening to this interview viewing it as something to mock and denigrate, and to actually listen to what she is and isn't saying.

She is quite clear in the part of the interview that you keep posting and pointing to as if it is saying something that it isnt. She keeps repeating that biological sex and 'legal' sex are different and should be separate if an organisation states that they are saying they are biological sex only . She is very clear that legal sex should refer to gender and that 'within the equality act, 'sex' means Biological Sex'.

That she mentions preventing organisations being sued, well, she says that she is hoping to prevent people with GRC from suing organisations that exclude them. It is right there in the longer interview. So, even when she is discussing organisations being sued, she used 'by those with a GRC' when they are excluded.

If it helps, I will post the timings where she says these things so you can see it. What makes it confusing is that Ed Balls is trying to mischaracterise what she is saying and she is not giving in to that mischaracterisation.

He is saying 'I read the newspapers and I assumed you were saying the opposite I thought you were going to to legislate to say that people cannot change their sex at Birth where you're actually telling us you're going to clarify the law to say that somebody can change their legal sex which is very different.'

She then is clear and says:
“I’m sorry Ed, that's not that's not what I said we clarifying the law to say that the equality act where it refers to sex is talking about biological sex . You can change your gender, uh of course, you can that is why we have uh transgender people. But we want transgender to mean transgender. Sex is immutable. Biological sex is immutable, it doesn't matter what a piece of paper says. You cannot change your sex”

The full interview is here, and there is a transcript which I have copied and pasted so that I hope that you can see that you have indeed misunderstood.

Can you please post the sections that you believe she is saying that a male person with a GRC will still be able to access a space designated as being for biological women only - in other words, where a male person with a GRC will be able to access a single sex female space designated as such using an exception under the EA2010?

Maybe post the time stamp so we can all see what you have been laughing at all day.

I'm laughing because I've spent the last 6 months being told that it's ridiculous to talk about "legal sex", that everyone knows "humans can't change sex" and that Labour are a threat to women because they allow "legal sex".
Today KB has essentially said the same thing, after all the months of build up that she was going to be the saviour of women's spaces. It's fucking hilarious. Ed Balls stitched her up like a kipper because she's not used to talking to grown up politicians and she looked like a clown.

I wouldn't find it half as funny if I hadn't had the complete anti-Labour toxicity this board has demonstrated recently. Because my position is this is too important to play politics. KB has played politics with it and today she reaped what she sowed.

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:03

BIossomtoes · 03/06/2024 22:03

So why the consternation about a GP being the decision maker? The requirements wouldn’t change.

It's a good question

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:05

LastTrainEast · 03/06/2024 22:05

My first problem with this is that the act always did mean biological women. It doesn't need changing. Instead those claiming they turned into women by magic need slapping down. If a burglar claimed a new interpretation of "ownership" that wouldn't fly would it.

But even if it passed it only allows employers, councils, companies etc to keep men out of women's spaces if they want to and they don't want to. Remember we don't even have a self ID law so it should only be GRC holders now, but they are all so eager to abuse women they acted as though it was a law and held the door open for all the men and punished women who spoke up.

Exactly

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:11

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 22:05

Because they'd be the ones diagnosing gender dysphoria, and they aren't qualified to do so, as it's not their specialism (takes many years to qualify into psychiatry).

Psychiatrists don't diagnose gender dysphoria. It is diagnosed at a specialist clinic with multiple staff.
Labour are not proposing that changes. They are proposing the "decision maker" changes from a panel to a single individual.

I'm not sure why you are struggling with what blossom is saying. The panel at the moment doesn't need a medical professional. The proposed reform to the GRA process doesn't involve a change to how dysphoria is diagnosed.

NoWordForFluffy · 03/06/2024 23:12

CassieMaddox · 03/06/2024 23:11

Psychiatrists don't diagnose gender dysphoria. It is diagnosed at a specialist clinic with multiple staff.
Labour are not proposing that changes. They are proposing the "decision maker" changes from a panel to a single individual.

I'm not sure why you are struggling with what blossom is saying. The panel at the moment doesn't need a medical professional. The proposed reform to the GRA process doesn't involve a change to how dysphoria is diagnosed.

I get what she's saying. You and she are wrong, that's all!

Underthinker · 03/06/2024 23:14

@CassieMaddox
The facts that humans can't change sex, but humans have created the legal fiction of legal sex changes are pretty well known here. Hardly any kind of gotcha.

I frankly doubt your account of "what you've been told here for the last 6 months" - especially as that implies a repeated and consistent message.

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