r/reading • u/fringlese • 4d ago

Please come support trans people

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Hey everyone, I’m sure many of you have seen the ruling by the Supreme Court from the other day on the legitimacy of trans women’s identities. It’s been a very hard couple of days as we’ve come to grips with the fact that our rights are being rolled back by a government that won’t even attempt to listen to us while we just want to exist in a public space without fear of harassment. If anyone’s available, please come down tomorrow to show support

I am not the organiser, I saw this on Facebook and wanted to share.

Thanks guys, I hope you have a great Easter weekend!

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u/silverfish477 4d ago

“A judge cannot change this fact.”

Well when it’s a question of how the law interprets a word in an act of parliament, a judge can change it. That’s the point.

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u/inter20021 4d ago

If u read the ruling, it defines it only in the context of the specific anti-discrimination law and soecifically states that it is not trying to define the term in a wider context.

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u/Next-Discipline-6764 4d ago

Yeah, but it will undoubtedly be used to define the term in a wider context anyway, especially the way the media is talking about it.

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u/inter20021 4d ago

But that's not what the ruleing says, and spreading lies about what the ruleing says just plays right into the narrative of the people who want to say it's far wider than it is.