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www.vice.com
Britain’s Equalities Watchdog Met Privately With Anti-Trans Groups
Exclusive: Leaked emails and documents obtained by VICE World News show how senior leaders at the Equality and Human Rights Commission worked to erase trans rights.
![From the piece, on Sex Matters:
They celebrated with a letter to the CEO of NHS England demanding an end to gender affirming care, bragging that
"Children under the care of all gender services both NHS and private, must now be told that they will never be able to access spaces or services for the opposite sex, no matter what legal or medical steps they take now or in the future.
"Passing as the opposite sex ceases to be a desirable goal to present to children when they will never be permitted to use spaces or services for the opposite sex, and may in future be restricted in employment in roles such as police officer or nurse
"Instead it becomes a major, permanent social problem for those young people. We have always argued that it was unethical and a breach of human-rights principles to promise [young people] that they could intrude on other people's privacy, safety and dignity ... by using spaces for the opposite sex."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n4xnkejnt37mkg7td4vkzuxe/bafkreicm2mb5gp2vswrslaqb3agze3n42fzdvxuxtufg42btp6urkdqekm)
Rachael P 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 @rachael-p.bsky.social
(IMO) This has been the genius of the UK Gender Criticals. And equally, I don't believe *we* can't win our side by persuading most of 68m people of our case. However, I admit i have no idea how to counter with the decision makers (for which read judiciary, media and politicians).
www.independent.co.uk
Transgender doctor told NHS of ‘intent’ to use women’s changing rooms – tribunal
Dr Beth Upton said in evidence that she had used women’s changing rooms in previous jobs.
Jay Willis @jaywillis.net
Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![2 WEST VIRGINIA v. B. P. J.
THOMAS, J., concurring
judgment). Because “gender dysphoria” is a mutable men-
tal state that is the object of psychiatric treatment, it does
not resemble the immutable characteristics on the basis of
which our precedents have applied heightened scrutiny—
race, sex, or national origin. Instead, gender dysphoria re-
sembles other characteristics on the basis of which legisla-
tures may classify with a merely rational basis. See, e.g.,
Heller v. Doe, 509 U. S. 312, 321 (1993) (mental illness);
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U. S. 202, 220 (1982) (immigration sta-
tus). Legislatures have many obvious rational bases to
keep men who believe that they are women out of teams
and private spaces reserved for women.
Second, as the Court recognizes, this case concerns “bio-
logical men” and “boys who identify as girls.” Ante, at 10,
27. Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or
girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immuta-
ble “biological” characteristic, see ante, at 10; it is binary;
and “man” and “woman,” “boy” and “girl,” are the terms that
correspond to adults and children of each sex. See A. Byrne,
Are Women Adult Human Females? 177 Philosophical
Studies 3783, 3786–3787 (2020). To use language to ob-
scure reality—to show “indifference regarding the truth”—
is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens
“as equal[s].” J. Pieper, Abuse of Language—Abuse of
Power 17, 21 (1992).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpna2qi2e44fafbhhtqjak3x/bafkreibwsxtosqddkiskx5oxonnai4ha7ygixfcqmnbsxb27z3q43jh4iu)
open.substack.com
Open Letter to Minister for Women Nicola Grigg
Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill
Julie Kliegman @juliekliegman.com
I wrote for @slate.com about the new IOC sex testing policy and the intersex women directly targeted by it
slate.com
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Britain’s Equalities Watchdog Met Privately With Anti-Trans Groups
Exclusive: Leaked emails and documents obtained by VICE World News show how senior leaders at the Equality and Human Rights Commission worked to erase trans rights.
Rachael P 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 @rachael-p.bsky.social
(IMO) This has been the genius of the UK Gender Criticals. And equally, I don't believe *we* can't win our side by persuading most of 68m people of our case. However, I admit i have no idea how to counter with the decision makers (for which read judiciary, media and politicians).
open.substack.com
EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: Female Inmate Alleges Rape by Trans-Identified Male Transfer, Lawsuit Reveals
An inmate at New Jersey’s only women’s prison is appealing the dismissal of a lawsuit she filed against the New Jersey Department of Corrections (NJDOC) alleging that she was sexually abused by a tran...
quillette.com
Erasing the Word “Woman”
The desexing of language in women’s health research and care is a story of the marginalisation of science, cultural imperialism, and abuse of power.
@jessdee.bsky.social
A lot of other folks are gonna call your shit. And rightfully so. But like; I really do wonder if you understand what you're even doing. What you're lending credence to. What you're laundering here. Do you even understand what you're taking part in?
Tim Janicke @timjanicke.bsky.social
In a new #Viewpoint we argue that the binary definition of #BiologicalSex based on gamete size is a scientifically robust framework that is entirely compatible with the diversity of sexual phenotypes and human gender identities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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