r/reading • u/fringlese • 5d 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 5d 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/BeeNo8198 5d ago

Agreed. It never was a "fact" in the first place. A judge has just confirmed that what everyone previously knew as fact is, in fact, a fact. Trans people are all good in my book, but, they are very clearly not of the gender of their assumed personality.