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Someone clever (@upandoutcomic) asked people "When did you realize you didn’t have to identify as the gender you were assigned at birth? What made that ol' mental lightbulb turn on?" This short thread was my reply: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014031…

@TransAndMerican And of course Iran's top Ayatollah ruled that thee is nothing against Islam in changing sex.

If there were some Bible verse where St Paul said "don't be a trаnny under any circumstances even medical reasons" then crap. The issue is that there's nothing explicit and many working principles in the faith that could be read for and against it (but IMO mostly for), combined..

@joss_prior @LowGradeEvil I trust you chalked a 🚺 sign at the entrance?

@LowGradeEvil I did actually get caught short and had to use a cave. Lol

Had a break from using single sex spaces today.

@a_hiding_person @life_minutiae web.archive.org/web/2025100114…

@_oatc_ @life_minutiae It's why I can't see the decisions as anything but blatant judicial activism. It's clearly contrary to the EHCR ruling (which is non-binding but evidential) and the intention behind the GRA.

This is the most crazy thing about the judicial interpretation of the act to me. Even if the court thought the act was ambiguous, it's pretty hard to believe that the purposive intent was to make GRCs meaningless and ban organisations that include only cis and trans women.

@life_minutiae @a_hiding_person 👍

@_oatc_ @a_hiding_person indeed, and that too is inconsistent with the supreme court ruling, which ruled without really much explication that sex doesn’t change (while ECHR ruled that sex changes and the UK must meaningfully recognize such)

@life_minutiae @a_hiding_person It's violated in many respects. That convention bans discrimination on grounds of birth yet this requires discrimination on grounds of sex at birth. It denies privacy of medical history, it humiliates/discriminates most against those the ECHR ruled must be protected

@a_hiding_person if GRCs are meaningless, that’s a pretty clear violation of the ECHR ruling that led to GRCs in the first place

@AriDrennen Have you considered Vaniqa cream (Eflornithine) & plucking stragglers?

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer,” I mumble to myself in the mirror as I raise the whirring epilator towards my upper lip

@fraudfreezers @BBCBreakfast A suitable one

@_oatc_ @BBCBreakfast Awwww. A label 🤣

Single-sex spaces - such as changing rooms and toilets - must be used on the basis of biological sex, new guidance from the equalities watchdog has confirmed. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@Punished_Jess Importantly along with progesterone

"estrogen doesn't make you grow real tits" yes it does thats how it works

The bronze statue in Kyiv of Volodymyr the Great, the 10th century Grand Prince of Kyiv, looks over the Dnipro as explosions echo across the city, and flashes light up the left (eastern) bank of the Ukrainian capital.

@theresaverity These proposed guidelines do invalidate them. Say there is no way to know.

They have flipped the EA2010 into the exact opposite of what every single discussion leading up to it made it clear it was supposed to be. They're currently lining up on 'no way to prove AGAB' arguments for papers/cards to invalidate passports and driving licenses.

Remember when this was about Dignity and Respect. Just Asking Questions. Time To Think. Reasonable Concerns. Dress How You Want. Of Course There Won't Be A Toilet Ban. Of Course There Won't Be Treatment Bans. Well, we're now at Of Course There Won't Be Badges And Camps.

Luk’yanivka metro station in Kyiv - one of the shallower ones in the city - suffered damage to doors and escalators. The shopping mall above appears to have been completely gutted by an intense fire from a missile or drone attack. At least one person injured here.

@MalcolmNellis @BBCBreakfast People who don't closely fit sex stereotypes get harassed when they just need to pee, even urgently, especially women

@BBCBreakfast Why are you so against ' Single Sex Spaces ' based on biological gender ?

@DWNZ07 @BBCBreakfast @nhsfife She was never an A&E nurse. Had been on the same unsupervised night shift on an upstairs ward for decades where she ruled the roost.

@BBCBreakfast Maybe if the government's had grown a pair and made this clearer before rathervthan worrying who they would offend #sandiepeggy wouldn't have been suspended and @nhsfife wouldn't have had a dedicated nurse off duty affecting a busy A&E department!

@AwightLove @BBCBreakfast

@BBCBreakfast We gonna have cock inspectors now outside the toilets?

@fraudfreezers @BBCBreakfast Proudly fascist post that.

@BBCBreakfast Maybe if everywhere had male and female toilets and facial recognition was used to auto-taser the trans mob using whichever sex they feel like today, that will solve the problem.

@Xisfunnny @BBCBreakfast 🇬🇧 people have used whichever toilets suited them for centuries, until now.

@BBCBreakfast The law has always been very clear , it’s extraordinary and bloody scandalous that people chose to ignore it.

@SeuJos5 @BBCBreakfast No, they have to use the bushes outside, along with the women who have had vaginoplasty. Yet both of those groups are explicitly protected from discrimination in international law, which 🇬🇧 is ignoring despite having written it.

@BBCBreakfast Does that mean that trans men (born females) who had sex change surgery will be allowed to swing their c*cks freely in the ladies room?

@SecretOxProf @BBCBreakfast No it doesn't. Only the service provider 's toilet police can do that, and risk harassment charges.

@BBCBreakfast How this law is applied is the key question Ultimately lots of trans women will use women’s bathrooms This law just gives women the right to ask them to leave - on their terms - should they feel it necessary

@LizWebsterSBF @TorbenSchust @OpiniumResearch @ObserverUK how is the pound "only digital"?

@TorbenSchust @OpiniumResearch @ObserverUK We don’t have to give up the pound. But actually why would you want to keep it? It means paying more for pound which is now only digital.

🚨 Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll 🚨 A third now prefer rejoining the EU (36%). But the least divisive option for public opinion is staying outside the EU while negotiating a closer relationship (only 24% find that unacceptable)