'Rights can be lost in a second' Older trans people reveal their fears after supreme court ruling". Coming home at night, Janey still carries her keys in her hand. It's the fragility of rights that scares her. "Just look at what is happening in the US - what worries me in this country is that this is the start of something. Rights can be knocked out in a second." The supreme court judgment has been "a tremendous shock" to mature trans women in particular, says Diana James, a 66 year-old domestic abuse worker. "These are women just living their lives, coming up for retirement, pottering around their gardens and suddenly their safety and security has been removed." In the intervening decades since her own transition in the mid- 1970S, James has witnessed "an incremental increase in rights and understanding" for trans people. "The path forward wasn't rushed, so some people who had concerns could discuss them." But she is one of many who identify 2017 as a pivot point, when then prime minister Theresa May proposed reforming UK gender recognition laws to allow people to self-identify as their chosen gender, alongside the emergence of women's campaign groups focusing on "sex-based rights". "It became wrapped up into an issue of women's safety from trans people, despite the lack of evidence there was a genuine threat. This muddied the water... [NOTE... At around 1000 words it isn't possible to include the whole text as alt but I will share the online edition tomorrow morning]

'Rights can be lost in a second' Older trans people reveal their fears after supreme court ruling". Coming home at night, Janey still carries her keys in her hand. It's the fragility of rights that scares her. "Just look at what is happening in the US - what worries me in this country is that this is the start of something. Rights can be knocked out in a second." The supreme court judgment has been "a tremendous shock" to mature trans women in particular, says Diana James, a 66 year-old domestic abuse worker. "These are women just living their lives, coming up for retirement, pottering around their gardens and suddenly their safety and security has been removed." In the intervening decades since her own transition in the mid- 1970S, James has witnessed "an incremental increase in rights and understanding" for trans people. "The path forward wasn't rushed, so some people who had concerns could discuss them." But she is one of many who identify 2017 as a pivot point, when then prime minister Theresa May proposed reforming UK gender recognition laws to allow people to self-identify as their chosen gender, alongside the emergence of women's campaign groups focusing on "sex-based rights". "It became wrapped up into an issue of women's safety from trans people, despite the lack of evidence there was a genuine threat. This muddied the water... [NOTE... At around 1000 words it isn't possible to include the whole text as alt but I will share the online edition tomorrow morning]
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