Quote from: Tills on May 28, 2025, 10:06:22 AMI'm not making light of things. I'm suggesting that when the law is an ass it should be treated with the contempt it deserves. And ignored.

Here, in the U.S., our Founding Fathers said it so eloquently in the preamble to our Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

It is amazing that there is concern in the USA or UK for harm to or not allowing us to live simply as who we are, civil transgender people.

So true @ChrissyRyan

Thank you @Lori Dee for reminding us of those words. They really are rather wonderful, aren't they? It's quite the foundational blueprint.

I bought some summer clothes from Primark yesterday. I wanted to try them on so went to the fitting rooms. There was one area labelled 'Women' and the other area was labelled 'All Genders.'

I picked up my garment security thingy from the female attendant and went into the Women's section twice. I wouldn't have considered doing anything else.

No one said a thing. I'm looking femme at the moment though anyway I guess.

I'm not really paying much attention to the so-called 'News' tbf. I'm just getting on with living my female life in the UK and right now I can't say I've encountered anything hostile.

I accept that this may change and 'there may be trouble ahead' (Nat King Cole) on a political and legal level which might filter down into people's attitudes. But I think the majority of the UK population have other things to worry about.

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p.s. I might be in denial, mind 

I feel that the real trouble in the UK could come c. 4 years from now which is the latest date for the next General Election. Reform are leading in all the national opinion polls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

As a result, the Labour Gov't have lurched to the Right on many issues: pandering to that wing of the electorate. So either way, on a national level the outlook isn't particularly encouraging.

For those outside of the UK who aren't aware, Reform are led by Donald Trump's friend Nigel Farage, who helped instigate Britain's exit from the European Union.

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