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   CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 11:27:24 JST CJ Bellwether

   So this coming morning (in 3 or so hours) The Times is reporting that they have leaked details of Labour's plans to update the process of acquiring a GRC (Gender Recognition Certificate) if they are elected to government.

   This is the process in the UK of changing your legal sex.

   Labour is getting rid of the 2+ years of heavy paperwork requirement as well as chucking the secret, hidden (often hostile) panel that judges your application and can refuse without reason. Instead just requiring you to have had a gender incongruence assessment and a (The Times is vague on this part) 2 years cooling off period. They are also getting rid of part of the that says if you are married you need to get permission of your spouse.

   This is big.

   Mainly because the extreme paperwork required and hostile panel is the biggest hurdle (outside of lack of non-binary legal recognition) for any trans person applying for a GRC and the main thing that puts most off from ever trying, or keeps many in a "half way state".

   As community with large amounts of extreme anxiety / trauma /neurodivergency turns out is not well suited to maintaining meticulous and sustained paperwork in a hostile system over several years.

   So its good news.

   But on a slightly wider scale, the direct implication is that for Labour to know this and act on it means theyre talking and listening to Trans Orgs in shaping their policy.

   And thats something that runs directly counter to a lot of the trans popular belief about Labours intentions.

   So its going to be a bumpy few days as people contend with that news.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 11:40:59 JST CJ Bellwether

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     This would be the first time UK trans legal rights has moved forwards in a meaningful and good faith way that focuses on the needs of actual trans people since 2010.

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 12:03:18 JST CJ Bellwether

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     Also, this is The Times doing a clever "political weekday issue" follow up to their saturday lifestyle issue where they frontpaged JKR saying she cant support Labour due to their trans rights stance.

     This is the Tories officially making trans rights the political football for papers to focus on while they try to get out from under their election betting scandal.

     We're going to get kicked a lot.

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     Sleepy time tea bear (sleepytimeteabear@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 01:42:30 JST Sleepy time tea bear

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     @siege 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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     CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 19:42:46 JST CJ Bellwether

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     @NotWrittenHere yeah, we're not going to hear any actual stuff til after the election - we're a vote loser so they're oging to be twisting every direction when asked until its over.

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     Exempt Human Specimen (notwrittenhere@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 19:42:48 JST Exempt Human Specimen

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     @siege I also heard something today about them scrapping the Tories' anti-social-transition guidance for schools. Maybe they are actually slightly listening to us?

     Edit: Sorry for Torygraph, but it looks like this is what that person was talking about. Labour have said they'll review the Tories' guidance on teaching 'gender ideology' in schools. Article is paywalled, but 12ft.io will get around it https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/23/bridget-phillipson-labour-may-scrap-gender-ideology-ban/