How women’s services can include trans women This is a serious legal argument, not just satire. The Equality Act s7 protects “transsexual persons” from discrimination under the protected characteristic of “gender reassignment”. The people protected propose to undergo, are undergoing or have undergone a process “for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex”. That, incidentally, is why the Supreme Court’s judgment in […]
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Affirming Hello Dear Reader, I’m going to warn you now that I’m stuck in procrastination mode, lost in thoughts of what I might write, while my brain plays ‘meh, delete’ on each idea. Ah, it’s going to be one of those episodes is it? Right oh. Well, let’s just keep a hammerin’ on the keys until something sticks eh? History This week saw 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. Of course the Jones folk didn’t do anything for it. We didn’t do any street party or putting the Union Jack up. I’m sure we’ll now be on a list at ‘Deform’ HQ – assuming they know which end of the pen to use Maybe [...]
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Parliament, and recording my sex as male “No one- not a Government, not a public authority, not a politician- has the right to define who another person is; only the individual can do that. This is a fundamental principle of dignity and respect that transcends political views and legal debates.” Alex Sobel, Labour, got to the heart of trans recognition. Unfortunately, some […]
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L3Harris, the Brighton arms factory Brighton has an arms factory. It makes bomb release mechanisms being used in Gaza: they are sold to the US, then sent from there. I joined a protest at the factory, and arguably committed an offence which renders me liable on conviction to imprisonment for 14 years. This blog post is evidence I have arguably […]
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Later Hi, Not much to report this week. Perhaps that’s a good thing, given what’s going on in the world. I think it would drive you potty if you worried about all of it. I did have a chat with our local MP about the recent Supreme Court business. They did listen and the impression I got was that politics is not unlike a large business. We’ll skip over the comedy option of “the cat has left it’s business…” What I mean is in – my limited experience – of large organisations, is there’s the Chain of Command. Some orgs are built to deliberately allow communications to flow quickly and there’s various reasons why they want that. Others, less so [...]
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