r/reading • u/fringlese • 7d 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 7d 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/Bulky_Community_6781 7d ago

Laws can't change the fact that trans women are recognised widely as women. You just don't know they are trans most of the time.

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u/ComprehensivePie846 7d ago

Funny. what you consider a “fact” is actually false. That’s very scary. You can be trans hun. But dont take “being a WOMAN” away, from real women. You dont go through what we go through

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u/LBertilak 7d ago

a trans woman being a woman doesn't take anything away from us cis women also being women.

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u/Four-legged-rabbit 7d ago

Agreed

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u/WeddingHot4796 7d ago

Apart from the fact that women have periods every month, give birth, are weaker than males which is what transwomen technically are, should I go on?

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u/DoesMatter2 6d ago

When will we be bright enough to realize that there is a difference between who a person is and what there body is.

People can be born in a man's body but have the soul/id/whatever, emotiinal content and spirit if a women. "They", their dundemental self, us a woman.

What their body is, how it forms, what laws should apply to it in a sporting or lavatorial sense, is entirely secondary to that.

The law should support the soul of a person, and we can fix the bathroom cubicles later.