Voices: Trans women like me are now effectively outlawed from public life – what are you so scared of?
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Opinion by Diana Thomas (16 April 2025)
The Gender Recognition Act of 2004 specifically says that someone with a gender recognition certificate shall be considered in law to belong to their acquired sex. This is being reversed thanks to today's Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of "woman" is based on biological sex.
Had the court allowed any trans people to give evidence or any doctors or scientists who work in the field of gender identity, they would have discovered two things. First, the supported "threat" to women's rights posed by the existence of trans women does not exist. And second, the definition of "biological sex" is infinitely more complicated and harder to pin down than a simple matter of X or Y chromosomes.
Instead, they accepted a narrative of bigotry and prejudice that bears a sickening resemblance to that used as the justification for the segregation and persecution of Black people and Jews: this group is inferior, but it is also dangerous, and its very presence is a threat to a healthy society.
But what threat do trans women actually pose? Name me the trans female who has won an Olympic medal or a tennis grand slam. There is no such name because it has never happened (and no, those two boxers at Paris 2024 were not transgender).
As for trans women in ladies' loos, here's an exclusive report on what we do there. We stand in line. We dash for the first available cubicle. We do our business. Then we wash our hands, check our face, brush our hair and leave.
If they were to make it fair to everyone, the law could simply read:
"Thou shalt not discriminate. Period."
We are all humans. So what if our genes are different, our skin is a different color, or we hold different beliefs? Deep down, we all bleed red.
Let us all simply treat each other fair and well.
Quote from: Lori Dee on April 16, 2025, 09:19:07 PMIf they were to make it fair to everyone, the law could simply read:
"Thou shalt not discriminate. Period."
We are all humans. So what if our genes are different, our skin is a different color, or we hold different beliefs? Deep down, we all bleed red.
Absolute truth here.
While it is good to be discriminating (ability to make fine judgments, as in art) it is not good to discriminate (as prejudging).
Which means you do not treat people badly because of some characteristic they posses, such as shortness, weight, religion, sex, being transgender, and so on.