And that 909 will be an underestimate. I know I’m not the only trans person who didn’t answer those questions as I didn’t trust the government with the information.

It’s self evidently not true - my brain and the way I think is very different now to when I was in my mid 20s. If you have any degree of insight into yourself or ability to reflect, you will continue to change and evolve through their lifetimes.

Horrible that this advice is needed. I would just observe that the section on parental responsibility appears to presume children have a mum and dad

Yes, Labour pushed through the fudged Civil Partnership law but the Tories who legalised full marriage equality.

Arguably Labour did its best at the time and civil partnership was a lot better than nothing. I’m not sure full marriage equality would have got through in that still very homophobic era

See my post above. Which allows Reform to appoint a friendly replacement

But they are appointed by the elected side of the council.

The leader of the Council said on being elected “we have absolute ultimate control” and her first act was to remove the Ukraine flag. One of the council’s key upcoming decisions is the appointment of a new Chief Exec in the next few months…

Russia. A country which hates losing and loves to stir up trans issues in the West for political benefit.

Was that related to all the Soviet weightlifters back then where there was suspicion of testosterone use?

What It Feels Like for a Girl review – deeply disturbing and totally fearless TV This extraordinary adaptation of Paris Lees’ memoir follows wild, witty teen Byron as they go from cottaging for cash aged 15 to finding solace in a raucous gang of trans and queer pals. You’ll never ...

The Guardian has managed it as well www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Those things can all be valid. We can tax wealth and resolve the situation where Sunak pays a far lower effective tax rate than much of the population, or where Buckingham Palace pays less council tax than the average semi in a deprived area.

There will be a policy next week to make us all join the army. That’ll straighten us out.

Well, there is kind of this big war going on not so very far away from the UK by a country who has attacked people in this country using chemical and radioactive weapons

I just don’t understand the premise of their argument. Why would someone claim to be trans rather than being a gay man? That would be a very strange thing to decide to do. Especially irrational given the number of lesbian trans women.

Possibly a winner of “best legal case name ever”?

So they want to abolish the (Labour) Equality Act which imposes statutory duties not to discriminate? Do they really think that would be popular?

(Well, other than for trans people, where removing rights is government policy).

I wonder how she’ll feel when she is misgendered in a female only space?

Tell me why everything I've gone through means nothing. Tell me why my identity means less than yours. Tell me why people are killing themselves because you spread hate. Tell me why you think we're less than you. You want to say we don't exist? Own the repercussions. Say it clearly without hiding 8/

That’s good. This is going back over 25 years (scarily) and to the days of Harry Benjamin. Twin set and pearls was the order of the day (which I refused to comply with)

The FA don’t care about diversity. There are six out male pro footballers in the world - one in the UK (PinkNews). The folded to pressure about rainbow armbands in the last World Cup. It’s all lip service covering homophobia.

I hope it’s not still a thing, but you used to have to pass the “real life test” and convince a couple of (elderly, male) shrinks that you conformed enough to their stereotype of femininity.

Who’s at more risk, the 9YO boy alone in the male toilets or the cis woman in a locked cubicle next door to a trans woman, also in a locked cubicle?

My only foray into the men’s toilets in several decades was fairly recently in Tesco where I was confused by the signage. Embarrassment ensued all round. Despite what the baroness thinks, I won’t be repeating the experience.

Actually, that might be helpful given how confusing the signage is for some toilets, relying either on slightly different signs (Tesco, I’m looking at you) or knowledge of random animals.

It also makes the GC group look silly, I suspect the average cis person on the Clapham Omnibus would look at this and think “that’s crazy”

Arguments about segregation to “protect women” and for “hygiene” directly echo those used to justify Jim Crow toilet segregation in the USA www.bustle.com/articles/160...

What Jim Crow Laws Teach Us About North Carolina's Bathroom Legislation This March, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed House Bill 2 (HB2), a law requiring people to use the public bathrooms which correspond with the gender they were assigned at birth, rather than thei...

It’s echoing language used to justify Jim Crow segregation. There were claims that white women sharing toilets with Black women would cause a syphilis epidemic amongst white women. www.bustle.com/articles/160...

Prisoner voting compromise ends dispute with European court About 100 inmates released on

Apparently settled in 2017? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4227...

I really really hope you’re right. It’s pretty much our only hope. I fear the EU would not endanger trade and a ECtHR judgement would both be ignored by a future Reform gov and create more pressure for us to leave. Brexit shows us that government will do economically insane things if it wins votes.

Well, they claim to be female, but use an androgynous name for some of their books and a male one for others. And that chin looks quite masculine. We need to see Rowling’s birth certificate I think.