My waffling.

1. I just donated towards the Good Law Project's trans rights fund. I urge you to do likewise.

(tags:law CrowdFunding uk transgender rights )

2. Bigots who hate one group increasingly hate all of them. (bigotry now correlated 70% with conservatism)

(tags:bigotry society USA psychology )

3. Gow long does it take to create a new habit?

(tags:habits psychology )

4. The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia

(tags:cats prehistory archeology )

5. Edinburgh's second home council tax charge raises £2.7m

(tags:housing tax edinburgh )

6. The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet

(tags:ux socialmedia )

In the future all zoo trips will look like this.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

1. The Scandal of Financial Nihilism

(tags:life money philosophy )

2. As unions decline, inequality rises

(tags:unions inequality )

3. Happy Easter! 'Chris is Risen'!

(tags:spelling fail easter UK religion Christianity )

4. 'Biological reality': What genetics has taught us about race

(tags:race racism genetics history politics USA )

The Gender Recognition Act was brought in in 2004 because the UK lost a court case at the ECHR in 2002.*

The court said:
"In the twenty first century the right of transsexuals to personal development and to physical and moral security in the full sense enjoyed by others in society cannot be regarded as a matter of controversy requiring the lapse of time to cast clearer light on the issues involved. In short, the unsatisfactory situation in which post-operative transsexuals live in an intermediate zone as not quite one gender or the other is no longer sustainable."

This is under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to a private life.

Placing "trans women" in a generally** different category than "women" is definitely putting them in an intermediate zone. And expecting them to make their assigned gender public is definitely taking the "private" out of "private life".

The UK is still a signatory to the convention. Cases can still be taken to its court. Leaving it would mean a *major* falling out with the EU. I suspect that if the UK tries to nudge things far at all that they will find the court takes a dim view.


*Fought, and lost, by Labour. Because they have never been onside in this area.
**It is possible to carve out exceptions in the current system. But they have to be justified on a case by case basis. A general finding that trans people are not of their legal gender is almost certainly not that.

1. Glad to see the LibDems taking the Supreme Court ruling on trans rights seriously

(tags:lgbt transgender bigotry libdem uk law )

2. Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

(tags:genocide USA politics satire )

3. No obligation to exclude trans women under 'misunderstood' Supreme Court ruling, former top judge says

(tags:transgender UK law )

4. Scientists create the world's largest lab-grown chicken nugget, complete with artificial veins

(tags:food technology )

5. Turns out you can have cheap green hydrogen buses - if you live next to a chemical works that has hydrogen waste

(tags:hydrogen transport buses doom )

6. But good sir, what is electricity?

(tags:electricity )

1. How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?

(tags:politics uk viaFrancescaElston)

2. Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

(tags:weight fat epigenetics )

3. Reminder that the head of the UK equalities watchdog is a transphobe who bullied 40% of her LGBT staff out.

(tags:lgbt bullying equality uk OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry )

4. Employment lawyer answers questions about Supreme Court ruling on trans women and single-sex spaces

(tags:gender UK law transgender LGBT )