frothing with rage again about the idea that there are categories of sport where it's too dangerous for the fragile little ladies to play with the boys

most of the time when people say things like "technofeudalism" or "serfdom" to talk about modern conditions, I would urge you to consider instead the "company town."

It's also a lot like (accurately) pointing out the evils of colonialism and the British Empire and therefore expecting nothing good from Britain ever If we've always been bad we have a duty to DO BETTER going forwards! Having been bad before isn't an excuse to become worse!

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

6. The fight on this is: A) legal because the code doesn’t meet Human Rights baselines B) practical because being inclusive is still lawful C) by ignoring the code’s attempts to change culture D) on the ground by lawful protest

This premise is flawed. The metric of inclusion should not be whether a person or organisation 'wishes' to exclude a group. This is a question of rights and privacy, the bar should necessarily be extremely high if you are to set on at all. This framing is a license for harassment and discrimination.

There's no "gender critical belief" that can exist in a world where trans people are not both a phenomenon that exists, and an object for criticism by people who are not themselves trans. "Gender ideology" in gender critical beliefs is the belief that trans people exist and deserve human rights.

I mean all other negative externalities of AI aside, it’s completely legitimate to distrust tech companies for the reason that they may play it fast and loose and fuck up your town, as they’ve done it multiple times and continue to do it

Wow, imagine how much of a precedent it sets to allow exclusion of an entire group with a "protected" characteristic because it might make someone "uncomfortable" Luckily this has never happened before and is fine and not just a license to discriminate. Cunts

We've read the new Code of Practice. Here's what you need to know.

There is an excellent argument to be made that, in forcing trans people to use limited facilities provided for disabled access (like toilets), the EHRC guidance undermines adequate provision for disabled people by increasing demand on facilities that were never designed to meet that demand.

Vital point that EHRC fails - again - to address: 'third' spaces like private hospital side rooms and wheelchair accessible toilets are already limited and oversubscribed. There aren't enough private hospital side rooms to accommodate both trans people AND those with a medical need for them.

Cis allies doing this is a real part of the response to this hate. Make compliance expensive, complicated and not worth it:

Every path leads to liability. Mixed-sex only: possible discrimination against women (13.133). Single-sex but trans-inclusive: unlawful (13.130). Exclude trans people without proportionality: gender reassignment discrimination (13.149). No safe route exists for providers. It's a compliance nightmare

the whole mechanism boils down to "hassle anyone you don't think passes" they have not considered either how this will play out in practice as applied EITHER to cis-passing trans people OR to cis people who don't perform perfectly normatively. and then they have the gall to say it's not harassment

This is unworkable. Make it absolutely impossible to implement, however you can.

okay so new guidance is still unworkable dogshit which doesn't understand sports and goes out of its way to be horrible about toilets and changing rooms, but they've noticed that they can't just basically blithely come out and tell people to go right ahead and discriminate on gender reassignment?

🚨 New EHRC guidance is here and we will have analysis soon assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a0de6... Key points to remember:

The reason this is so especially egregious is... the previous EHRC guidance passed in 2011 right after the law was passed.... was SIGNED OFF BY TREVOR PHILLIPS WHO WAS THE CHAIR OF THE EHRC AT THE TIME!!!!!

Labour is out of touch with women's sports, international human rights norms and with many other areas of life.

This is a fucking brilliant idea - such a cheap, simple and easy way to help trans people. Not an ally pin. A trans pin/flag/badge. Make weirdos wonder “could they be trans”?

Labour’s Bathroom Ban.

If someone is spouting antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews that could be direct quotes from the Protocols or Mein Kampf, adding in the word ‘Zionist’ and pretending that gives them plausible deniability doesn’t actually change anything about the centuries-old conspiracy bullshit.

absolute joke of a country that wants to pretend you can have meaningful protests that never inconvenience anyone, that you can have sanctions and boycotts without impacting your level of consumption, that strikes shouldn't result in service interruptions, that you can have the cake and eat it too

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

vindication!

would I be anti-AI in any meaningful sense if we lived in a world that wasn't a capitalist nightmare? not really. in the abstract, in scientific curiosity, I think they're pretty neat. I really do. but uh about the world we actually do live in, and the consequences of actions,

To be clear, the problem here is very much Palantir being involved. An actual genuinely unified health record is something that a lot of people in the NHS have been quietly advocating for literal decades; the current fragmentation of information is inefficient and causes harm.

I do firmly believe that this is one of the most important parts of democracy in These Isles and we should cherish it. A sitting Minister going down to third standing next to a person dressed as a gannet keeps our politicians from thinking too much of themselves.

okay, whichever designer at microsoft has apparently decided that the way to update the look and feel of an interface is to add a couple extra pixels to the margin or padding values for literally every element, every update what do you have against being able to fit actual content on the screen??

The world still operates like a bunch of feuding empires when it is very clear that not one nation can exist and flourish alone.

i do not think people understand how much it scares the forces of evil that you have allegiance to humanity, not any given nation

the quality of Andreessen's statements about the past sure does support his claim to never fucking think about it ('400 years ago no-one -' hey, Marc, René Descartes would like a word)

The people who are keen to absolutely die on the hill that the market is always right should be a bit more goddamn honest with what the market is actually saying about the profitability of various forms of energy, absent massive government subsidy to the fossil fuel industry.

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I do strongly feel that even though I think the general changes are bad, it's especially heinous changing the rules under people's feet like this. It isn't fair.

If the test to get into BBQ University in China isn't called either the 高烤 or the 烧考, I will lose all of my remaining faith in humanity.

It is, of course, not just children but everyone who will have to pass these checkpoints. Papers, please.

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

I am tired of Big Ideas, actually. I want policymakers who will calmly and decently and fairly implement things that we know work.

Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba

Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal. What did you think would happen?

The obvious benefit of Over The Counter availability is that you know that what you are buying is what you intended to buy, you have regulated manufacture and quality control, a recommended dosage limit printed on the label, you have clear batch labelling and ways of tracking tainted batches, etc.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

"who's lives does this make better" is a great question to ask at all times to be quite honest.

Not transgender for everybody, but transgender for anybody.

I have been spending all my time in Silmarillion fandom for the last two months which might be sufficient explanation for why my first thought on this was "I assume we're fitting Dream of the Fisherman's Wife into that last category?"

it also surprises people how many 'dead' digital archives there are (historical and other), with links that lead to broken pages. it costs money to keep a database online, after all, and often funding runs out.

They absolutely HATE stories of trans people being happy and free. Remember that dossier that talked about the "pro LGBT" bias at the beeb? The main thrust of the argument was that when they featured happy trans people they didn't counter the story with one of their pet detransitioners

RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS