EHRC Guidelines are an attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature

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Sorry if this has been posted, but I've just had a nearly total meltdown. Not just the heat but my brain having to find that men would presume to say challenging trans identity is a form of genocide

... The Lemkin Institute cannot read the new EHRC guidance as anything other than an attempt to make life harder for the trans and intersex communities in the UK and to erase them from public life as much as possible. There are also several instances where the Code of Practice tends towards the forced outing of trans people who dare to exist in public spaces, which is incredibly harmful and puts trans and intersex people at risk of violent assault.

The guidance is based on the bizarre notion that services cease to be single-sex if trans people are allowed to use them. It goes on to state that this would “very likely to amount to unlawful sex discrimination against the people of the opposite sex who are not allowed to use it.” This means that if a business, for example, allows both trans and cis women to use the women’s toilet, but does not allow cis men to use that same toilet, cis men could claim discrimination on the basis of sex, even though a men’s toilet exists. It is unclear what disadvantage or unfavourable treatment cis men in this scenario would be facing, which are required components of discrimination according to the Code of Practice itself. Given that women’s toilets tend to be busier and have longer lines, we believe that being able to use the male toilet could actually be described as an advantage. ...

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-anti-trans-and-anti-intersex-ehrc-code-of-practice-in-the-united-kingdom

Like Naomi Cunningham's excellent analogy: if something has peanuts in it, it's not peanut-free.

I've said before - this rise of genderwoo is going to make rich pickings for future sociologists - and psychologists too, as you suggest, Ereshkigalangcleg.

It's not unprecedented for demonstrably daft ideas promulgated by a small group to sweep through society, and for otherwise fairly sensible people to lose the head altogether over something like tulips or the South Sea Company, or more damagingly, over witches, or women having babies out of wedlock.

I expect that's how genderwoo will look in the rear-view mirror...

True; but it is still nut free, because peanuts are legumes not nuts.
So I suppose peanuts need a third, legume-friendly space 😁

What?? Nah, you're having me on!

Delusions of persecution are a very classic aspect of cult thinking. "We alone know the truth and everyone is after us because of it" reinforces the cohesion of the in-group by setting it against an out-group: "We're all in this together. We need to stick together to survive!" It encourages the dismissal of personal reluctance, or the examination of personal concerns, in the face of a far greater danger from the outside.

Basically: when your group is literally on the verge of extermination, you can't waste time and energy examining the actions of people in your group, or testing the veracity of the arguments you're fed. Either you accept and defend in it all in the name of survical, or you're complicit with the Bad Guys in your own death and that of everyone else in your group.

Yeah thanks for that, StellaAndCrow!😁
'How bizarre, how bizarre' - I had to google it, and that revealed that it's not a case of having forgotten who did it, but that I never knew who it was- it was a New Zealand band called OMC ('Otara Millionaires Club').

Every day a school day, eh?

Yup, peanuts are legumes not nuts.

'OMC sang How Bizarre in 1995'
and
'Peanuts are not nuts'

Everyday a school-day, and that's Music and Botany ticked off😁

Ffs. Genocide, again?!

I really feel like they need to learn some new big words.

Hyperbole might be a good start.