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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 00:19:56 JST goatsarah

   A few years ago, Cambridge City Council became the first of many local authorities in the UK to start dismantling its trans equality policy. Here, today, they are flying the progress pride flag from their offices.

   Hypocritical bullshitters. We see you.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 00:23:40 JST goatsarah

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     This is basically ground zero for the assault on trans people’s equality, fronted by then councillor Ann Sinnott of Cambridge Labour, founder of the transphobic hate group, “LGB Alliance”
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 00:48:30 JST goatsarah

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     • Alisdair Calder McGregor
     @A_C_McGregor That’s her
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     Alisdair Calder McGregor (a_c_mcgregor@topspicy.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 00:48:31 JST Alisdair Calder McGregor

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     @goatsarah is that the one with the teenage breastfeeding kink?

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 00:50:06 JST goatsarah

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     • Alisdair Calder McGregor

     @A_C_McGregor Totally normal Adult Human Female with normal attitudes towards adolescents getting bitty.

     You’ll know her if you meet her; she has the permanent air of “just sucked a lemon coated in bitrex” about her.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:13:29 JST goatsarah

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     • Paul100

     @Paul100 Well, we like living our lives and minding our own business, but quite a lot of people have a problem with that.

     In this case, they amended their equalities policy to allow them to discriminate against us in service provision (housing, employment, etc)

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     paul100@mk.phreedom.club's status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:13:31 JST Paul100

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     @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
     Anteeksi. En tiedä paljon tästä aiheesta.
     Mitkä ovat transsukupuolisten ihmisten haasteet?

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:43:45 JST goatsarah

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     • Paul100
     @Paul100 If your job is to provide a service to the public, then you don’t get to decide some people don’t get to receive it, ESPECIALLY when you’re funded by their taxes.
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     paul100@mk.phreedom.club's status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:43:47 JST Paul100

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     @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
     I don't have a clear opinion.
     On the one hand, I am against any discrimination.
     On the other hand, I consider freedom of contract a basic human right.
     You cannot force a free man to do something against his will.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:48:39 JST goatsarah

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     • Paul100

     @Paul100 Thing is, discriminating against someone based on who they are: not acceptable.

     Discriminating against someone for behaving like an arsehole: completely acceptable.

     I am a business owner as it happens, and if someone is transphobic to me, they will be told to take their custom elsewhere.

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     paul100@mk.phreedom.club's status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 01:48:42 JST Paul100

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     @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
     Yes, this is a significant difference.
     If you are a business owner, would you like to cater to the trasphobes?

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 05:02:03 JST goatsarah

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     • Paul100

     @Paul100 One is based on identity, one is based on behaviour.

     They are not the same.

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     paul100@mk.phreedom.club's status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 05:02:05 JST Paul100

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     @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
     You think he's a jerk. He thinks you're a jerk.
     Violence, including state violence, will not solve the problem.
     We need to think about how to resolve the conflict differently, so that everyone can be who he is, without discrimination and violence.