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   Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 03:23:01 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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   Case in point, this piece by the the BBC, which reads like it was written by an inexperienced intern...

   Trans people will feel anxious over gender ruling - Swinney https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74nx8lk82vo

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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 03:23:02 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

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     Crucially, a decision to exclude must be made on a case by case basis. Failure to explain that seems to be an outrageous failure of journalistic responsibility as it will inevitably lead to people and organisations thinking they have carte blanche and acting accordingly.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 03:23:04 JST Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

     A number of news outlets are reporting the line that the Supreme Court decision may mean that trans women may be excluded from single sex spaces IF PROPORTIONATE but I've not seen a single one explain that (a) that's not the thing that's changed (the change is that it could be applied to people who have GRCs) but, more importantly, they're not explaining that "proportionate" has a specific meaning in law. It means you have to have a legitimate reason and it can't be a blanket exclusion...

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     Jo (beedazzled@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 03:52:19 JST Jo

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     @christineburns but the police have already said searches would be done by the same gender as on the birth certificate.

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     Jo (beedazzled@mastodon.green)'s status on Sunday, 20-Apr-2025 06:41:12 JST Jo

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     @goatsarah @christineburns you are not wrong but thats what they have said. Its going to cause a lot of grief for women who don't confirm to some peoples idea of what is feminine as well as to trans women.