This is the stupidest culture war, fought with the stupidest people on one side and a marginalized group that really just would like to live a life without fear on the other. Not even “without fear,” because apparently that’s asking too much. Just no state-sanctioned fear.
It’s simply bizarre that Labour have chosen this hill to die on. After the SC ruling, Labour should have come out and said: that given the ambiguity in the law has been resolved but in a way that doesn’t account for trans people, we will be bringing forward updated legislation to close the gap. Sort of like the whole Civil Partnership vs Marriage idiocy.
The basic principle should be: don’t be a cunt. And then work from there.
Labour should have come out and said: that given the ambiguity in the law has been resolved but in a way that doesn’t account for trans people, we will be bringing forward updated legislation to close the gap.
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This would make sense if Labour weren’t a copy of the Tories, and Starmer wasn’t elected because he was another hard right figurehead running when people were upset with Tories for letting too many BAME and female people into top spots.
In short, if you want any sort of human rights then blue and red are off the table. Have been since Corbyn was purged.
It is not bizarre, it is literally their job to move the overturn window right and only punch left.
Let’s go! I hope it is successful.
careful, this could be just what reform need to revive their leave the ECHR bullshit.
They could resolve this with more legislation. The 2010/11 equalities act is ambiguous the way it is written so Labour need to pass more legislation to resolve it. “Use the disabled toilets” is not a satisfactory answer.
(aside: I keep messing up with parsing the acronyms ECHR and EHRC.)
I doubt this will lead to anything positive, possibly even starmer aping conservative’s desire to leave human rights bodies altogether, but I wish them luck all the same.
