Lattice Boy

The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination. It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.

It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service users. "A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex:

“A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.”
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Every decision I have to make around bureaucracy that isn't immediately obvious or that requires a Task eats up so much of my executive function.

I just checked and Minnesota can put an X on the state ID but that isn't allowed in the dropdown, which makes me even more confused.

I'll default to legal gender here I guess since they can check against legal records, but that might not be the actual information they want/mean what they think it means.

I hate having to jump through hoops and provide proof, but I also hate the moments when I'm not even sure what it is asking for because it assumes my life will be more neatly legible than it is.

I had started this whole process because it would make some other gender bureaucracy a little less hazy (gender question said it would matter/affect later questions without saying how and they check some information against state records)

I hate bureaucracy.

I can probably get one from durham but it already took a disproportionate amount of executive function to get back there with the copy of my name change doc that I thought would work, and I just feel so fucking done and tired

Minnesota apparently makes it easy to change one's gender marker, but they aren't making it easy for me to get a state id, because I had a driver's lisence with them three moves ago but two moves ago I got my name changed and now despite having copies of the court order I can't find an original.

on the current trajectory the only employable skill will be beating loyalty into peasants

I also think that it's important to keep pointing out that many of the corporate boards, University Trustees etc... SUPPORT FASCISM.

“My name is Braedon Peluso from the United States. If you’re seeing this video, we have been intercepted at sea and I’ve been kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces of a country complicit in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.”

Israeli Military Attacks Handala in International Waters, Abducts 21 Unarmed Civilians The Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirms that its civilian vessel Handala, en route to break Israel's illegal, genocidal blockade on Palestinians in Gaza, has been violently intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters about forty nautical miles from Gaza. At 11:43 Palestine time the Occupation cut the cameras on board Handala and we have lost all communication with our ship. The unarmed boat was carrying life-saving supplies when it was boarded by Israeli forces, its passengers abducted, and its cargo seized. The interception occurred in international waters outside Palestinian territorial waters off Gaza, in violation of international maritime law. Handala carried a shipment of critical humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza, including baby formula, diapers, food, and medicine. All cargo was non-military, civilian, and intended for direct distribution to a population facing deliberate starvation and medical collapse under Israel's illegal blockade.

Human Rights Defenders Aboard Handala, by country: United States: Christian Smalls - Amazon Labor Union founder; Huwaida Arraf - Human rights attorney (Palestine/US); Jacob Berger - Jewish-American activist; Bob Suberi - Jewish U.S. war veteran; Braedon Peluso - Sailor and direct action activist; Dr. Frank Romano - International lawyer and actor (France/US). France: Emma Fourreau - MEP and activist (France/Sweden); Gabrielle Cathala - Parliamentarian and former humanitarian worker; Justine Kempf - Nurse, Médecins du Monde; Ange Sahuquet - Engineer and human rights activist. Italy: Antonio Mazzeo - Teacher, peace researcher, journalist; Antonio "Tony" La Picirella - Climate and social justice organizer. Spain: Santiago González Vallejo - Economist and activist; Sergio Toribio - Engineer and environmentalist.

Australia: Robert Martin - Human rights activist; Tania "Tan" Safi - Journalist and organizer of Lebanese descent. Norway: Vigdis Bjorvand - 70-year-old lifelong justice activist. United Kingdom / France: Chloé Fiona Ludden - Former UN staff and scientist. Tunisia: Hatem Aouini - Trade unionist and internationalist activist. Journalists Aboard Handala Morocco: Mohamed El Bakkali - Senior journalist with Al Jazeera (based in Paris). Iraq / United States: Waad Al Musa - Cameraman and field reporter with Al Jazeera. The attack on Handala is the third violent act by Israeli forces against Freedom Flotilla missions this year alone. It follows the drone bombing of the civilian aid ship Conscience in European waters in May, which injured four people and disabled the vessel, and the illegal seizure of the Madleen in June, where Israeli forces abducted twelve civilians, including a Member

of the European Parliament. Shortly before their abduction, the Handala's crew affirmed that they would be hunger-striking if detained by Israeli forces and not accepting any food from the Israeli Occupation Forces. Israeli officials have ignored the International Court of Justice's binding orders that require the facilitation of humanitarian access to Gaza. The continued attacks on peaceful civilian missions represent a grave violation of international law. "Israel has no legal authority to detain international civilians aboard the Handala", said Ann Wright a member of the Freedom Flotilla's steering committee. "This is not a matter of internal Israeli jurisdiction. These are foreign nationals operating under international law in international waters. Their detention is arbitrary, unlawful, and must end."

BREAKING: Israeli military attacks humanitarian aid vessel Handala in international waters 30 miles from Gaza — in violation of maritime law — and has abducted 21 people on board, including U.S. citizens.

The ship was carrying life-saving aid, which Israel has seized.

A healthy work ethic includes not working when you're sick not only because working through illness only prolongs the illness and reduces employee productivity but also because getting other people sick fucks up their productivity. Or kills them. We've learned nothing from covid

There’s a window in the next week, O ye scholars, to pitch on the new EO and Ugly Laws and make the comparison. In general I think Americans do not want to repeat the horrors of the past, but are, and are in denial, so it’s worth trying to push at that.

Let me know if I can help.

A hugely underdiscussed effect of the creeping fascism of ICE is that debt collectors and landlords are filing more cases against immigrants, even when they're inflated or outright falsified, because they know immigrants are too fearful of deportation to show up to court to fight them.

Today I went kn a fun bike trip. While I didn't find it too physically hard, I do worry that it somehow stole my braincells

OK, who can host a craft fair fundraiser in a wheelchair accessible, public transit accessible space in NYC for free? Please feel free to share this post far and wide. Thank you. We need it either September 6 or 7. Ideally the space has some tables and chairs for vendors. We have no money for this.

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Like there probably are people who just wang to huff and be right and haven't seriously thought about things. But anything you do will look that way to someone who conceives of power differently than you do.

Yet again I am thinking about how people will portray disagreements over the nature of power into disagreements about whether power is useful in a way to make their opponents seem less serious

Great Blue Heron standing at the river's edge surrounded by greenery & there is a log on the left side

My attempts at photographing a Great Blue Heron on the river today 🤭

Normalize taking over your workplace and not giving it back

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Another thing I have been doing lately is making art. Still focusing on lower effort stuff, structured by photographs, but this is more art than I have done in a while

ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic.

They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6.

Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.

I see them around occasionally. Think a family lives nearby

Slowly getting my brain cells together to start the retooling for a new career (big issue right now is I'll need a new doctor for adhd meds to focus on the retooling. I still have some but not enough to last). Also been playing video games

UK arrests 83-year-old priest for backing Palestine Action and opposing Gaza genocide Outrage after retired priest arrested for supporting Palestine Action amid UK crackdown on pro-Palestine activism

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A brown wild rabbit sitting in some shady grass by some larger leafed plants. It has dark Boba eyes

Bunny by the garden

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
👉confirm the accuracy of the reports👈
👉before sending people into a panic 👈
👉 about ICE being somewhere 👈
👉 they’re not. 👈
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I am trying to remind myself that burnout takes a long time to recover from