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The biggest lie that was ever told about the GRA is that it is "just about updating the gender marker on a birth certificate"
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Stonewall
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-statement-delay-gender-recognition-act-reform
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-statement-delay-gender-recognition-act-reform
The extraordinary bit in the GRA is section 22 which makes it a *criminal offence* for someone who, in the course of their job, has acquired information about someone having changed their legal sex to share that information.
There are very few exceptions - such if that person has agreed to the disclosure of the information, a court has ordered it, it is for the purpose of investigating crime or for the purpose of social security or pensions.
How this works in everyday situations where #sexmatters - such as in your relationship with healthcare professionals, in safeguarding, and in single sex services was never considered.
In practice confidentiality about sex breaks information and decision making systems
In practice confidentiality about sex breaks information and decision making systems
Making information about someone's sex - which is often clearly knowable *confidential* and a criminal offence to reveal is an extreme intervention by the state.
It was perhaps thought justifiable when related to very few people - akin to going into witness protection.
It was perhaps thought justifiable when related to very few people - akin to going into witness protection.
The idea that this level of state enforced secrecy about a person's sex should be given to anyone who declares themself transgender (or non-binary) on the basis of a simple self-declaration is...... lunacy.
Doing this without first having worked out what it means for teachers & children, doctors & their patients, medical information systems, carers & vulnerable people, social workers & foster care, police officers & suspects, security guards prisoners would be utterly irresponsible
And we know that none of this has been worked out https://a-question-of-consent.net/2020/09/16/doctors/
And in fact if you so much as try to talk about it you will be called transphobic and people will try to get you fired (sometimes sucessfully) https://www.libdemvoice.org/liberal-democrats-adopt-definition-of-transphobia-65868.html
The climate of fear around talking about this is such that no established organisation has dared to publish any serious analysis about how secrecy-about-sex interacts with systems of safeguarding, consent and care for vulnerable people.
The silence of women's organisations, human rights experts and regulators has been the scariest thing.
Like everyone who has worked so hard, and at such great personal cost to have a serious public debate about this, I have everything crossed that @trussliz will not announce a move to self ID.
But even if self-ID is not brought in in law, it has already been brought in in practice, with institutions treating people's sex as unspeakable and unrecordable information. https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1306564826102149120
#sexmatters for safety, healthcare, consent and safeguarding.
Putting false information into the systems that we rely on to keep us safe, and safeguard fairness was never a good idea.
Whatever is announced, we will have to talk about this. https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/5/16/protected-lets-talk-about-trans-rights
Putting false information into the systems that we rely on to keep us safe, and safeguard fairness was never a good idea.
Whatever is announced, we will have to talk about this. https://filia.org.uk/news/2020/5/16/protected-lets-talk-about-trans-rights
