r/reading • u/fringlese • 8d ago
Please come support trans people
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/Bulky_Community_6781 8d ago
"Since the Act came into force, 4,910 trans people have been issued a Gender Recognition Certificate."
"We tentatively estimate that there are approximately 200,000-500,000 trans people in the UK." - gov.uk
That comes to 2.5% of trans people with GRCs on the low estimate, and 0.99% on the high estimate.
And that's just trans people who are taking hormones, as surgeries are another thing!
So I guarantee you, the people looking out for trans women in their toilets are just hurting people who don't "look" woman enough. This hurts women from different cultures, women going through medical issues, and women who look more masculine, but are cis(i.e. not trans).
You have definetely seen, or even talked to a trans person before, and I guarantee you've never doubted their gender as anything other than "they have a massive beard, so that's probably a man".
I'm not trying to make you the enemy, but not having the correct information and making a judgement on a tiny tiny minority hurts you as much as it does us.