#gender recognition act

[turnaboutstevie]

hey, UK trans allies, do you have a minute?

There's a new petition asking the government to add an amendment to the GRA, allowing the families of trans people to get a posthumous GRC for their deceased trans family members, and allowing terminally ill trans people to get a GRC, so they can be buried with the dignity they deserve.

I don't have my hopes up (we all know the governments track record) but I also think that anything is worth a shot. Trans people deserve dignity in death, too.

(If you're not from the UK, please share it! Don't listen to people who tell you to use a fake postcode to sign- even one fake signature could void the whole petition. Please don't take that risk <3)

#trans rights #trans rights are human rights #transgender #trans #trans women #trans men #gender reform #gender recognition act #gender recognition certificate #trans uk #uk trans #ukpol

[fayrobertsuk]

X Marks the Spot

Okay, UK Citizens, we're giving this another go. Sign and/ or share, please (if you're not UK-based, PLEASE share). It went pretty much as you'd expect last time: decent public support, got to debate stage, some lovely speeches from supportive MPs, then… random shit about women's prisons and sports from people unwilling to do anything to address the actual issues in prisons and gendered sports. 🙄

So behold, we're going to try again to join the increasing numbers of countries out there who allow an X or similar on the passports and driving licences of nonbinary folk.

(And we'll keep bloody trying until the UK rejoins the 21st Century.)

#nonbinary #petition #important #gender recognition act #gender recognition reform #gender recognition certificate #gender stuff #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt rights #lgbtqia #lgbtqplus #queer community #lgbtqia+ #queer #human rights #uk government #UK politics #trans rights #Transphobia #Enbyphobia #Sign and share #Please

[faithdlee]

Soooooo back when the first Indy Ref was going on, I was a English person, living in England. My spouse and I were in Scotland for the Fringe, visiting a friend, and we saw a *lot* of shows, talks, plays, and political panels about the ref (the Fringe isn’t just comedy, but the comedy that year was gold!) It seemed like a done deal. I was delighted for Scotland to be getting away from England.

When the vote came in and a Scotland had decided to stay in the union I was FLABBERGASTED. It made no sense to me, tho I’ve since learned a lot of Scottish people were told they’d lose access to EU is the left the UK (ha bloody ha). Even back then, it was obvious what England was turning into, and the long term effects of Tory austerity was going to be. People were already dying as a result of the disgusting DWP and wider government policies.

Brexit wasn’t even on the horizon.

Now, in 2023, I live in Scotland. I watched Westminster say that Scotland couldn’t have a 2nd referendum, and the High Court back that decision. Now I’m watching Westminster highjack a Scottish law, passed by a Scottish cross-party majority, and try to dismantle it.

And OFC it’s a law that might actually make the lives of trans and non-binary people just that little bit better, that little bit easier. Because hey, let’s kick the vulnerable when they’re vulnerable - the unspoken motto of right wing bigots of the world. There’s a reason the Tories are called the Tories, after all.

God I hope they’ve overreached themselves this time. That for once they’ve fucked up so badly they might actually lose - not just in the polls (though that too, please); but in the very centre of them: Their gross ideologically driven culture war, their always successful divide and conquer strategy, their precious ‘empire’ and ‘union’, their fucking entitlement to just ride roughshod over people - always the people who have the least chance of fighting back - to get what they want.

Scottish independence cannot come fast enough. Bring. It. On. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏳️‍⚧️

#scottish independence #aye for Scotland #Yes Scots #trans rights #uk politics #TRANS PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE #what the hell is wrong with the world that this even needs to be said? #gender recognition act #I have no idea why my paragraph spacing is so huge

[rhube]

Ryan has legal recognition as non-binary under California law. Under UK law their legally recognised gender identity in California should be respected. A court has denied that on the basis that the language in the Gender Recognition Act can be interpreted as intended to be about binary male or female genders only (bollocks), and because it would be an administrative hassle to recognise their gender identity when the UK doesn't recognise its own native-born non-binary citizens. But they have won the right to appeal this.

They're funding this fight themselves, but it's costly, and it would be a huge win for all non-binary UK citizens. Please donate if you can and boost if you can't.

#non-binary #gender recognition act #go fund me #gofundme #fundraiser #legal fees

[ironfoot-mothafocka]

I know trans people across the UK (not just in Scotland) are upset and angry about the blocking of the bid by Scottish Parliament to make getting a Gender Recognition Certificate easier. We are being used once again as a political and media football, and it sucks. It’s dangerous. It’s harmful.

I got a Gender Recognition Certificate in 2019 after transitioning about 11 years prior. Here’s what I’ve needed a Gender Recognition Certificate for:

Nothing.

My life did not change. At all. I haven’t even looked at my new birth certificate for 4 years and I don’t think I will need to.

Trans people in the UK: you do not need a GRC to update your name, passport, driver’s license, sex marker on NHS records.

You don’t need one to use the loo of your choice, the changing rooms of your choice, the gym locker room of your choice.

It is illegal for businesses or services which provide single sex spaces to discriminate against trans people or exclude us unless it is proportionate and achieves a legitimate aim.

It is illegal for a service or employer to ask you to show them a GRC. It is a piece of private documentation that is strictly protected by law.

A birth certificate is no longer required as evidence to get married. A passport will do.

The world is hurting trans people, but from a man with a Gender Recognition Certificate: it will be OK. Life will go on, and we will ensure things get easier for us.

#gender recognition #gender #trans #uk politics #lgbtq #transgender #gender recognition act #trans rights #uk trans #Scottish gender recognition bill

[elicatkin]

Brianna Ghey: Give killed trans girl posthumous gender recognition

#Dignity For Brianna #trans rights #uk politics #gender recognition act

[thedreadvampy]

I am full on losing my shit at this FRONT PAGE ARTICLE in the Times which has found. drum roll please. that the Scottish Government provides some funding to women's charities who lobbied in favour of reforming the Gender Recognition Bill. thereby PROVING beyond a SHADOW OF A DOUBT that the SNP are paying off a shadowy cabal of The Transes.

you can read the article archived here but basically they scrubbed through the accounts of organisations in favour of GRA reform and flagged up any Scottish Government funding. this included project funding for a student mental health project from NUS, core funding for Rape Crisis Scotland, and a whole shitton of vague 'received project funding'.

(I have worked in the Scottish charity sector for 5 years and have yet to encounter a single substantial charity which has activities outside policy lobbying and doesn't have at least a project or two receiving some amount of ScotGov funding, if only in the hundreds. they offer a lot of project grants and restricted funding)

there is also. and this is my favourite because it suggests a very specific journalistic method. a £100k grant to the Trade Union Congress to "support transition capacity" which. I may be totally off base. but I would bet money was actually project funding for just transition, as in the process of transitioning to a green economy. I can't prove this without further research but that's a) the only use of "transition capacity" I can find from STUC, b) a major goal of the Scottish Government, c) nothing to do with gender and d) something that definitely WOULD pop up if you ctrl+fed "trans" in their accounts.

9/14 of the organisations listed are organisations focused on gendered violence or women's equality (the others are trade unions, human rights, and refugee advocacy). Someone with a normal brain might say "hey, it's good that the government is funding rape crisis centres and women's rights orgs" but the big brain geniuses at the Times know better. they know that REALLY demonstrates that governments are Evil Misogynist TRAs Paying Off Stooges.

#red said #gender recognition act

[jenniferdiazisatransgirl]

A Counter To JK Rowling’s Article in The Times

I try and ignore what JK Rowling is posting but it is kinda hard to ignore and when she is given the platform of a newspaper to post misinformation, I feel the need to counter. (By the way, I copied and pasted this from my FB)

So JK Rowling was given an entire opinion piece in The Times yesterday to write about her opposition to the Gender Recognition Act in Scotland.

Let's make this clear. Who or who doesn't have access to single-sex spaces has nothing to do with the Gender Recognition Act of 2004. It never has done. It is covered by the Equality Act of 2010 where there are actually exemptions where a trans person can be refused access to a single-sex service upon a case by case basis where the goal is to meet a legitimate aim. It however, is not allowed to be a blanket ban.

The one exception to this is prisons, where the accepted practice is that you initially go by what is recorded on a person's birth certificate and a panel should meet on where a trans prisoner is to be held.

The Gender Recognition Act of 2004 covers birth certificates and a persons tax record. When issued with a Gender Recognition Certificate a trans person is issued a new birth certificate in their acquired gender and their legal sex is altered for tax purposes.

This enables a trans person to marry in their acquired gender and for their death certificate to also read the same when they die. It also places a few additional protections. Like for example, a person with GRCs previous gender is not allowed to be disclosed without their consent unless necessary.

Scotland's proposed change removes the medicalisation of being trans which JK Rowling somehow argues will increase medicalisation of children. Not sure how demedicalisation leads to further medicalisation. Plus I have an interesting note about the medical process here.

So to get a doctor to sign off on the fact you intend to live in your acquired gender for the rest of your life you are actually required as part of the medical process to use single-sex facilities of your acquired gender to get that sign off. As I said, single-sex facilities are not under the remit of the Gender Recognition Act, but to get the necessary sign offs to meet the present requirements of the Gender Recognition Act you HAVE to use those facilities. To get sign off for surgery you HAVE to use those facilities.

How do I know all this? Cos unlike JK Rowling who has no experience of being a trans person in the UK and who has no expertise on the subject besides having a seeming obsession with trans people, I am a trans woman who has gone through the entire process from start to finish.

I realised I should be a girl when I was 10 (2003).

I came out when I was 15 and got referred to the local gender identity clinic that same year (2008).

I had my name changed in 2012.

I started HRT in 2013.

I had gender reassignment surgery in 2016.

I got my gender recognition certificate in 2017, after initially being rejected in 2016 because for some reason the Gender Recognition Panel decided the letter from my Gender Identity Clinic didn't meet their criteria. The Gender Identity Clinic who provide these letters fairly routinely.

And before I go I just want to highlight this. The proposed reform to the Gender Recognition Act of 2004 in Scotland are to remove the medical aspects, lower the age to 16 from 18 and make it so you have to only live 3 months in your acquired gender as opposed to 2 years.

JK Rowling argues there is no measure really for someone living in their acquired gender and it is one point I'm tempted to agree with her on. However, the medical process that JK Rowling as a cisgender* woman has never experienced does seem to have a measure for this.

Most of you on here know me fairly well. You will know in day-to-day life my go to outfit is jeans, t-shirt, plaid shirt and depending on the weather maybe a hoodie. At work black trousers and a plaid shirt. It is genuinely how I feel comfortable.

At my appointments at the GIC though, I'd sit down and one of the first things the doctor would do is examine how I was dressed.

Doctor: Hmmmm, I see your wearing jeans today. That's rather masculine attire isn't it?

Me: They're from the women's section.

Doctor: (dismissively) Hmmmm. (writes notes)

And I heard it a lot, that how I choose to dress is not in keeping with the gender roles the GIC expect I conform to as a woman. That I'd never get hormones and surgery if I didn't put on make-up and a skirt for my appointments. And I do not exaggerate. I don't know if they still do it but Porterbrook GIC had an image consultant who REPEATEDLY asserted these things to me during my appointments with her.

Honestly, my appointments to Porterbrook GIC felt like a trip to the fucking 1950s where women were expected to be prim and proper housewives.

I'd like to imagine the gender identity clinics have improved but frankly I still don't hear good things to this day. And God, JK Rowling and her friends like to talk about how trans people are re-inforcing regressive gender stereotypes. Well, the medical process you want us to continue to go through to get a GRC, oh boy is it full of regressive gender stereotypes.

To recap though:

- Who has access to single-sex spaces is not covered by the Gender Recognition Act of 2004, but by the Equality Act of 2010 which does have a single-sex exemption clause where trans people can be excluded from a single-sex service on a case by case basis, where the goal is to meet a legitimate aim.

- The Gender Recognition Act of 2004 covers what my birth certificate says, whether I am husband or a wife when I marry, what gender is recorded on my death certificate and in a day and age when it was less equal, my tax and pension rights.

*cisgender means someone whose gender (sense of self) matches up with their sex. For lack of a better word it is the opposite of being transgender. Like straight is the counterpart to gay, cisgender is the counterpart to transgender.

#trans rights #transgender #gender recognition act #equality act #Scotland #United Kingdom #miscellaneous

[thingstrumperssay]

TERFs: “Men (trans women) don’t belong in women’s spaces! They’re sexual predators!”

Also TERFs:

(Some people who were there are saying that children were present, by the way)

#terfs #scotland #scotland says trans rights #gender recognition act #transphobes #terf #transphobia #transphobe

[neurodivergent-aroace-64]

Are any of you guys listening to radia 4 right now? Because Nicola Sturgoen just fully destroyed every Terf in the country,, they all just exploded

#nicola sturgeon #gender recognition act #scottish politics #uk politics #english politics

[mydignityisinflames]

Can't believe the Tories are actually going to block this. This is ridiculously disproportionate response. Never in the 24 years of the Scottish Parliament have the UK government blocked a bill this way but making admin slightly easier for trans people is when they feel necessary to throw their weight around. The bill had cross party support from SNP, Scottish Labour, Greens and Lib Dems and passed with a whopping 69% majority (nice) but the Tories hate trans people so much they are literally going to undermine democracy to stop it.

#they keep changing their reason for saying there blocking it too #first it was 'oh it will impact equality act'‚ then 'oh we're worried how it will effect uk wide documentation' #now they're back to saying its about equality act. dont fucking pretend you care about women's rights. just say you hate trans people #uk politics #scottish politics #gender recognition act

[cooking-with-hailstones]

For anyone not in the UK like me (or if you are in the UK and you like concise, well researched videos about major news events), TLDR News did a great segment on WHAT THE HECK is happening in Scotland right now and why it's a big freaking deal.

#UK politics #ukpoli #scotland #politics #trans stuff #gender recognition certificates #gender recognition act #scottish politics #emily talks #Youtube

[rockets-and-raccoons]

I love this idea that now that the GRA Reform has passed that suddenly sexual predators will enter women's public toilets, as if there was some magical barrier stopping them from entering before this reform was published.

Do y'all know just how many times I've seen cis-men in women only public toilets. I lost count before I was even in high school.

Nothing stops anyone from entering whatever toilet they want. This legislation does not affect the rights of women in the slightest.

If you're worried about sexual predators entering public toilets, then I hate to tell you this, but literally nothing has ever stopped them from doing so before. A door with a gendered sign on it is still just a fucking door. It's not some magical forcefield.

Sexual predators have always been capable of entering women only spaces. Claiming that this legislation is the reason they are able to do so is ridiculous. Maybe reevaluate why you think like this.

The people benefitting from this, are transmen and transwomen.

Take your terf rhetoric and ram it up yer arse

#gra reform #gra scotland #gender recognition act #gender recognition reform #scotland

[gwydionmisha]

#Brianna Ghey #Gender Recognition Act #Trans #Murder #News

[psychuan]

congratulations to Scotland! get fucked and die TERFs! 🥳🥳🥳

#gender recognition act #fuck terfs #scotland #scotpol