ukpol, transphobia
UK looks like it move towards banning trans people from all single-sex spaces https://archive.ph/taXyE
But wait there's more... trans women will definitely be banned from women's restrooms under this, but what about trans men and women's bathrooms?
The proposed law says that they might also be banned from women's restrooms, or maybe men's, it depends on whether they make people uncomfortable or something completely unclear
What the fuck is this nonsense
re: ukpol, transphobia
@cwebber@social.coop That sounds like gender-neutral toilets are going to be required, since gender reassignment is still a protected characteristic and the European Convention on Human Rights still applies.
(Also, could you please post the original unarchived link? I'm getting blocked by cloudflare so I can't actually read that article.)
re: ukpol, transphobia
@noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl @cwebber@social.coop “since gender reassignment is still a protected characteristic” The Supreme Court judgement addressed this. They claim that if everybody is treated as their legal birth sex, that’s not discrimination. I wonder if the ECtHR will agree.
re: ukpol, transphobia
@mallory@hachyderm.io @cwebber@social.coop The Supreme Court judgement changed the definition of the protected characteristic of sex, but didn't modify the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, which still exists. It means that if you ban trans people from single-sex spaces, you still have to provide a space for them otherwise you'll be discriminating against people with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, which effectively means that gender neutral toilets are required.
re: ukpol, transphobia
@noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl Ah. That one is addressed by the article: “It will say that in the case of areas that are necessary for everyone, such as lavatories, it would not be proportionate to leave a trans person with no facilities.” So I’d assume only buildings with a non-gendered toilet would be banning trans people entirely from the gendered toilets. At least officially. In practice, many bigots will not know or care about the law and just yell at trans people in every bathroom.
re: ukpol, transphobia
@mallory@hachyderm.io Is it up to the owners of buildings or would it be legally required to ban trans people from single-sex spaces? If the latter (which I think it is), then it seems that buildings without gender-neutral toilets would be required to install them.
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Noisytoot
