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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse (www.liberalcurrents.com)
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[–] 34 points 3 months ago

The sudden, irrational, hate-fueled disenfranchisement of an entire minority group bankrolled by evil capitalists should be a wake up call for literally everyone who isn't evil and rich. It won't stop with trans people ya know.

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Ffs. I grew up watching Dame Edna and Eddie Izzard on the TV. There has been a long tradition of trans actors going back to Roman times. Why the sudden influx of American bred puritan politics? Learn your British history. Trans people are a huge part of it.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    If you read the article you'd be aware that that isn't true and is in fact a key point of the argument.

    To summarise:

    The UK was trans-inclusive from the late 2000s-ish to about 6 years ago. At that point it started slowly backsliding under the Tories. Then suddenly in the past year or two trans rights have been eroded massively (including through the first veto of a Scottish bill since devolution). Legal precedents have been reinterpreted.

    It's a violent lurch towards the direction the US went down. And if it can happen to trans rights it can expand to other areas.

    And to add my own bit at the end:

    Reform are testing the waters with things like "abortion is murder". The government is heavily policing protests. The election system sucks. I think caution is warranted, this is not what a healthy democracy looks like.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    You mean "condescending"? Yeah, I get snarky if people don't even engage with what they criticise.

    Though I guess "condensing" applies, consider the length of the article I tried to summarise in a few sentences.

    Anyway, I'm not going to answer those questions. The article goes into plenty of detail of how trans rights and healthcare shifted. Read it. You'll still disagree afterwards of course. I don't necessarily fully agree with their narrative, though I do think the government's/Labour's shift in their attitude to trans people is atrocious and a symptom of larger issues.

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