Pylon Enjoyer 🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇪🇺

Well I mean, this is the obvious next step for the anti-trans campaigners. An even more blatant violation of the ECHR but, ah well, nevertheless..

Yeah I mean their aim is to ban trans people, no matter how convoluted they have to get with the law.

Well it'll have to be tested in court but the draft guidance suggested that not providing sex-segregated facilities could be discrimination against women made to feel uncomfortable. We are through the fucking looking glass.

I sincerely hope you are right!

You know what the secret is, kids?

The secret is that we're all fucking terrified. None of us have legitimacy. We are all largely powerless to set the terms of discourse about us, which still largely happens on cissexist terms, and so we scream at each other to feel a sense of control we lack.

It's more a case of wilful ignorance than genuine belief, right?

I think the post is still accurate - it's not like Labour *gain* votes from being performatively cruel to trans people, refugees, pro-Palestine protesters, however fecklessly the public might approach those issues.

There are regulations de facto banning new buildings from having unisex toilets that aren't the expensive "room with sink" kind. Anti-trans groups will also sue that not sex-segregating is discrimination. I hope this crap will remain largely unenforced, but it's not as easy to get around as you say.

The same dynamic plays out across mainstream pro-trans stuff more broadly - it's about being nice, or a good person, rather than about what's actually happening.

It's also striking how eg Ann Widdecombe appears to display a better understanding of what sex/gender transition actually entails than a decent chunk of trans allies on here! And that's saying something, given that Widdecombe is nevertheless spouting Blanchardist nonsense.

Making that conclusion is obviously absurd. I do think, though, that the prisons stuff shows how the "gender criticals" with their "biological sex" ideology have radicalised well past the traditional socially-conservative take on trans people. Which is interesting, but also quite scary.

Yep exactly, I feel like the entire leadership just want to wait for it to blow over, which is a fundamental misunderstanding of the new political reality.

We've been burned twice trying to break out (2010 and 2019), so it makes sense that the leadership is taking a cautious approach. But it's a peacetime strategy in a moment of all-out war. I worry Davey doesn't have the juice.

Watching the "gender criticals" turn to open anti-feminism is mildly funny, but what the movement is metastasising into should terrify even those who don't care about trans folk: they're openly pushing the idea that men and women shouldn't mix, and our media and political elites aren't pushing back.

Yeah like the point is she's a hypocrite (on both race and sex)

But society is uncomfortable acknowledging the physicality of the trans body, because mutability of the flesh is a threat to the hierarchy of meat. To acknowledge our bodies as a subject we can know is to transgress upon the authority of the divine sausage and the brotherhood of its sacred priests.

It's poor management, but it's also very depressing for what it shows about whose votes Davey wants to gain. Is there no party that actually likes its own base??

Before colonisation, African cultures embraced gender diversity. For example, the Igbo and Yoruba people found mostly in present-day Nigeria did not have a binary view of gender and typically did not assign gender to babies at birth, waiting until later in life. The Dagaaba people (in present-day Ghana) assigned gender based not on anatomy but on the energy someone presents. Quote box: "Our stories are full of women who parent without partners, boys who grow up with grandmothers, queer folk who build homes full of joy" In Kenya, the Agikuyu people practised a tradition of women marrying other women. In a 2000 study on “woman-woman marriage” among Gikuyu women, Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi and William E O’Brien examine the dynamics of these relationships, which demonstrate the fluidity of gender relations and queerness in traditional Africa.

Hm, this reads like some of the writing on Hijra that Bhatt has criticised.
@taliabhatt.itch.io do you know if this is the same sort of thing?

Circular reasoning is when you assume what you are trying to show. Axiomatic reasoning is when you assume anything at all. Circular reasoning is inherently meaningless, whereas axiomatic reasoning can be meaningful and even useful.

Yes. All widely accepted mathematical proofs are free of circularity, as is this particular proof. What you cannot avoid is having basic assumptions, or axioms, to ultimately base the proof on.

This bullshit will continue until parliament fixes the Equality Act the courts broke

Should be Con -6.7

I could *maybe* see Corbyn doing that, but no way Sultana goes down that path.

True, that post is at the character limit
And tbf omitting Reform there would be the funniest possible option
But probably it was just a typo, this person had like 10 by election results to upload at once

You forgot Reform

I think my initial reaction was just because I've seen Bance write some pretty awful things before. This post makes the point better:

bsky.app/profile/will...

Well, Bance appears to be equating support for assisted dying with a sort of naive individualism. I think that, if it's her collectivism specifically that's leading her to oppose this sort of thing (as she explains), it's no surprise that her collectivism is in crisis.

I mean in that thread "collectivism" means "forcing terminally ill people to suffer" so perhaps it isn't much surprise? Don't get me wrong - lots of people I agree with on most things oppose assisted dying - but they don't do it by sneering at "individualists" (who are implied to form an elite).

It's probably differential turnout, just like in the English locals.

No don't worry I didn't feel attacked, just talked past (ironically enough), so I clarified.
And yeah it's rough out there for us, stay safe, friend.