Rachael Padman 🏳️‍⚧️🌈

I'm pretty sure Labour *would* be prepared to leave the ECHR.

They'd need a trigger, but rights for refugees, or a pro-trans judgment at the ECHR would be enough. Then "more in sorrow than in anger" and all that, but we're off. We've got the Human Rights Act anyway... Byeeee! (stick that Reform)

We should probably work out what went wrong with Mumsnet first. Or maybe I mean, how it went wrong...

But the only alternative is talking therapy? (or ECT I suppose).
They would argue that you can't actually *damage* anyone by talking to/with them....

All bs of course.

Is anyone going to participate?

No, sorry. I wasn't clear.
I meant that AFLW might have stricter requirements than grass roots? Or maybe not....
Or indeed might not have even considered the matter I guess.

So hard in summer. Maxi dresses and mini skirts mostly for me, and I'm a lot older.

*That* skirt is *not* obscene. Looks great.

Anyway, my point is that we need to understand what "fair" representation might look like. And given that it's so probabilistic, "zero" might well stlll be quite probable.

But of course I will rejoice when the first trans player starts a match. Even more so if the press don't crucify her.

I see there are 18 teams, so that is what, 500 players? Or maybe there are also reserve squads.

And I'm not au fait at this distance with whether some degree of medical transition is requrired for AFLW, which might not be at grass roots level?

It's a problem for trans representation that there aren't that many of us (0.5% at most I think: 1 in 200). Add in being up for a fight *off* the field, and actually having had some sort of medical transition, and the numbers are down again.

You're in Oz; I'm not. How many AFLW players are there?

It's the underlying assumption that really annoys me.
Begging the question: have you stopped beating your wife yet? (answer yes or no!)

every single woman I've brought it up with at some point has been sexually assaulted before, myself included, and not a single one of these men has ever cared about the reality of that, but now it's maybe looking like some black and brown men are moving to Britain and oh, suddenly women are people?

I'm glad you posted this. But I've tried to listen, and maybe because I am too old, I can't. Every millisecond gap in the speech is filled a beat or two of electronic music...

Will wait until the contents filter back to written media.

Side issue, but I did that test in 2016.

It really annoyed me that the "correct" answers to about 5% of the questions were in fact wrong.* And you could guess the right answer to another 50% (murder is ok/not ok).

*It is compulsory to have a television licence? (Yes/No)
Not if you don't have TV!

I saw women's rights as first in line, which is why I invoked the old SDA. But I had the REA second?

My point was that the GCs are at risk of removing the laws that protect them in all their hatefulness. And some like Reindorf are vulnerable on multiple fronts.

Not wise!

I DO remember the Cuban Missile Crisis (a Madeleine: it brings back an instant memory of our living room and dining room when Dad brought home the paper -- pre TV in our house). Parents were very scared, but we didn't understand quite why.

But other things took over before I turned 16.

Oh, wasn't in jest!

Yes, and the RtP is a real sticking point for government surveillance of the citizenry...

If they wanted to tear up the EqA, surely even they could see the need to be a little careful about the replacement...

After all, it was born primarily from the Sex Discrimination Act and Racial Equality Act (iirc).

Likely Reindorf was tasked with writing it, and slipped it to one of her mates at the Times hoping to stir things up.
And then Kirkpatrick realised if he didn't take action, they'd be back in court tomorrow....
Some of these KCs don't seem so clever to me.

I do know one Australian woman, a bit younger than me, who just said oh f** it, and turned up at uni on her first day, at 17, as herself. No-one blinked an eye, and she never looked back.

I often wonder how things would have turned out if I'd had that level of self-knowledge.

26 then I think. I eased my way into it... 😊

You keep thinking that ordinary cis women are going to wake up one day and say, you know, I thought we were so over that performative feminity, and I like it that my partner does his nails and wtaf is all this gc stuff like *about*?

71, and 23-26 (depending where you count from).
Yes, by far my biggest regret also.
Not that I had the slightest clue how to. Telling my parents would probably have been a good start, though (with the benefit of hindsight).

Oh they have, and I am!

Once upon a time, I could have imagined a Labour politician speaking like that 😞

Damage control!
Can't admit to formulating advice without considering the consutation responses.

Quite. But I suppose the SC/PC might consider the interpretation of their judgment by the EHRC, and change their mind. Or declare that intrepratation to be wrong (since inconsistent anyway with their gloss).

I suppose the JR court could do it then, but I am sure the GLP statement of grounds says the Minister should (if the JR refuses the other grounds).

I thought the Privy Council was functionally now the Supreme Court? or vice versa.

Oh, I agree, but the GLP JR asks for a DoI (from the Minister) as an alternative to finding the EHRC's interpretation of FWS wrong.

Clearly GLP think this might shame the Minister into a new interpretation. My prediction is that a) GLP will win, but b) the Minister will refuse. Next top Strasbourg

I'm starting to understand why my parents (born 1926/27) weren't as starry-eyed about the world as I was when I was 16.

At that age, they were at a point in WWII when it wasn't clear who was going to win. And then straight into fear of nuclear armageddon.

All we had to worry about was Vietnam.

(from ignorance on my part) - how do they do that?

I surmised that a Declaration of incompatibilty was the get-out-of-gaol-free card for the gov't.

Are courts not bound to interpret the law as agreed by Parliament? And doesn't a DofI invalidate relevant inherited bits of the HRA?