I really hope this petition makes it to the parliamentary debate stage.
It would be delicious to finally see it spelled out to these people that gender identity is a philosophical belief and not a fact.
It’s so tedious seeing journalists and politicians constantly skirting around the obvious implication arising from Forstater that if it’s perfectly possible and reasonable not to believe in gender identity (i.e. to have gender critical beliefs), then gender identity must necessarily be a mere belief (as opposed to an indisputable fact) too.
This petition is brilliant, for four main reasons:
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it alerts the many members of the public who still don’t realise gender critical beliefs are protected (often because their employers have threatened disciplinary action for believing them) that they are;
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it emphasises the fact that gender identity ideology is in fact an ideology akin to any other philosophical belief or religion, and should be treated as such;
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it highlights perfectly that transactivists actually do want to take rights away from people with other protected characteristics, despite their claiming otherwise;
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a debate will have to acknowledge that ‘woman’ is a protected characteristic in law, since gender critical beliefs merely state this fact. How could it possibly be the case that the right to acknowledge what the law says is removed from us? That makes zero sense.