In the UK, the original Gender Recognition Act (GRA) set aside a legal class for people who were diagnosed as transsexual and wanted to generally be seen as the opposite sex. MPs foresaw many potential problems with this ...
... but the answer in every case was that there were so few of these people that problems would be rare if they happened at all. Getting a gender recognition certificate also did not prevent necessary exemptions for single-sex spaces ...
... so the idea was that it wouldn’t be a problem anywhere that mattered. That was fine for so long, that when the Women and Equalities Committee looked to revise the law in 2015, they didn’t bother consulting with any feminists or women’s groups. ...
... In the US, the story was similar, but with a patchwork of laws regarding which states let you change your documents. The assumption continued that there were so few people doing this that no one needed to think about it too much. ...
... The current gender identity movement has upended every premise on which these original, and rather extraordinary, privileges were granted. It’s upended every social condition under which these privileges were not worried about, when anyone thought about them at all. ...
... [The gender identity movement] has even upended support for LGB rights, where no one meant to sign up for a world where it was going to be suggested that people were “disgusting” for having a sexual orientation based on sex. ...
... The latest in gender identity policies make no references to any medical conditions, nor any objective physical criteria, not even to gender dysphoria, and have no treatment requirements. The standard is self-identification, which means there is no standard at all ...
... As soon as the legal status change was uncoupled from any medical diagnosis, which gender identity activists themselves have demanded in courts around the world, this was always going to wind up as an all-or-nothing proposition. ...
... So it does not matter if your carefully considered position is that classic transsexuals, or individuals with gender dysphoria, deserve a special carveout in the law to recognize that they may be unfairly targeted for homophobic violence or discrimination. ...
... Gender identity activists’ self-identification policies and legal advocacy erase transsexualism as a legal category as surely as they erase being female as a legal category. ...
... The result follows from the premises. If you think that the result is ludicrous, you have to re-examine the premises.
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