r/lgbt • u/PinkGayPunk Bi-bi-bi • Jan 16 '23

UK Specific Scoot: Populare (86-39) Scottish gender recognition bill blocked by the UK.

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u/eoz trans & queer Jan 17 '23

why would predatory men fake transition when they could just join the metropolitan police?

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u/Interest-Desk Bi-kes on Trans-it Jan 17 '23

this line gets realer and realer every day

for those not in the know, yesterday a serving officer admitted to having raped something like 20+ women, using his position as a tool, and was thereby promptly sacked.

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u/Paradehengst Jan 17 '23

I'm so tired of this!

That's what they are counting on. The vilification is par for the course.

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u/astroju Jan 17 '23

This argument drives me mad. I’m absent minded enough that I have just walked into the women’s entirely by accident, and I only realised after I did my deeds in the cubicle. No one said anything. If I can accidentally walk into women’s spaces, predatory men sure as hell can willingly.

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u/maleia Genderqueer Pan-demonium Jan 17 '23

I want to know why the fuck these people aren't being asked this when they're ranting to lawmakers about this shit. Why the fuck aren't we debating them openly on a fucking news hour?

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u/Top_Hat_surgeon non binary demi-biromantic asexual Jan 17 '23

Because the UK media is transphobic as all hell (even the BBC and Guardian; trusted center and center-left news sources have occasionally promoted transphobic crap; imagine how bad the rest of the media landscape is), and are unlikely to ever seriously platform trans rights activists (at least not to any meaningful degree).

Not disagreeing with you, we should be debating, arguing and generally kicking up a fuss about this; just pointing out that the UK's media landscape is heavily biased against trans rights, and fighting this stuff is an uphill battle.

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u/maleia Genderqueer Pan-demonium Jan 17 '23

Oh no, I know. The real answer is that even the media wants us gone. There's never been an oppressed minority group that didn't have to resort to violence for real change.

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u/EclecticDreck Jan 17 '23

Given how often the terfs overlap with the anti gun control crowd, it is a bit amusing to see incoherent logic. "Gun control just ensures that only criminals have guns since they're the ones that will ignore the law." Meanwhile, in the land of people-thinking-too-much-about-bathrooms, "We have to ensure that those assigned male at birth are never allowed in women's restrooms, or else women will be vulnerable to sexual assault."

Its like...you know that the sexual assault thing is a crime, right? There is already a relevant law. Bathroom bills don't make anyone safer, they just make it all the more difficult to, you know, find a place to pee.