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@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 1/ Been on this beat for 42yrs…

She's been drawn into a group that's been doing the same since the 70s, initially inspired by US "warnings" that trans women were taking over feminism, but Germaine Greer included it in her 1970 'Female Eunuch'. The matriarch got a post as…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 2/… Prof of Politics in Australia & it largely died down until she retired back here & made rolling back trans human rights progress her retirement project. They've tied in with all sorts of right-wing, church, etc., allies & now, in UK have the UK 'Guardian', Murdoch's…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 3/…'Times', 'Sun', & 'Sunday Times', the Barclay Bros' 'Telegraph' & 'Spectator', the 'Mail', The BBC & Channel4, the Koch Bros' 'Spiked', the "communist" 'Morning Star', 'Breitbart', & 'The Economist' all singing the same tune. Murdoch's rags do the same in Australia.

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@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 4/…Ostensibly the were against reform of the 2004 Gender Recognition Act - bringing it into line with Irish, Dutch, Spanish. Norwegian, Argentine, Colombian, Canadian & much US law (none of which have experienced the dire effects being forecast here) in just requiring a…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 5/… sworn, permanent declaration of gender, with a criminal penalty if fraudulent, instead of the present requirement for an anonymous tribunal to approve a psychiatrist's assessment, a second doctor's itemising of medical steps (but no surgery required), 2 years in role,…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 6/… being 18+, & entry on a national trans register. This just to have a new, 2nd birth registration to enable marriage & death as true gender, since all ID documents have been easily changeable since the 1940s with just a doctor's letter saying they believe the new role to…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 7/… be permanent. Before 2004 no change of birth certificate ("legal gender") was possible since 1970, when a judge declared sex to be chromosomes & unchangeable. The 2004 law was forced by a case in the European Court of Human Rights which decided that gender identity is…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 8/… was likely inborn, & must be legally recognised for private & due dignity.

However, their campaign is clearly against far more. A quite separate equality law, based upon EU level-playing field social & workplace rules, effectively in place since 1975 but gradually…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 9/… expanded in scope to include services & schools, treats us as our gender, uses sex & gender interchangeably, & also has protection from discrimination specifically for indicating an intention to transition, onwards. It seems they want that revoked too, which would make…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 10/… life very difficult, & might, under this right-wing government see other equalities deleted too. To do that would be against the ECHR judgment & would also require the UK to leave the Council of Europe, which has been threatened, although it is separate from the EU. That…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 11/…would leave, in this country with no written constitution, where a government with a large parliamentary majority has a totally free hand, all human rights in danger. Hence the right-wing enthusiasm.

They've used law cases (funded by anonymous backers) targetting the…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 12/… equal treatment in schools (the schools settle out of court to save money, but the transphobic teachers leave the profession) & at university (failed), equality law (claiming their's was a protected belief - it failed, badly), targetting police powers against hatred (the…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 13/…guidelines are being reviewed), targetting transition health care too (due in October). These tie in with cases ADF have sponsored, & recent state laws & federal moves in the US.

It is endless.

The right-wing government has now said the proposed reform is canceled…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 14/… (after prolonged "consultations" that provided much opportunity for hate-mongering). And the equalities minister (who met with the Heritage Foundation last time she was in the US) recently announced she will introduce "checks & balances" against us, & "protect"…

@JohnDiesattheEn @BookBeckBecca 15/… children from irreversible decisions, which sounds like banning any form of transition under 18. Gender transition care for minors is a strictly enforced state monopoly. JKR's sisters are terming it child abuse & calling for supportive parents to lose their children.

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