cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/11734
“This Government must be held responsible for the long-lasting damage they are doing to a generation of LGBTQ+ people.”
The United Kingdom’s Girl Guiding—the United Kingdom’s member organization of what Americans know as the Girl Scouts—has banned transgender girls from joining, marking yet another cruel and creative way that anti-trans antagonists have found to dehumanize children.
This comes after months of pressure from right-wing gender extremists to pull the trigger on the ban. An April Supreme Court ruling in the United Kingdom, funded in large part by anti-trans activist J.K. Rowling, overturned equal rights and protections for trans women under the Equality Act (2010). By deciding that trans women were no longer women, the Supreme Court took away any legal protections otherwise afforded to other women and girls.
“Following April’s Supreme Court ruling relating to sex and gender, many organisations across the country have been facing complex decisions about what it means for girls and women and for the wider communities affected,” the announcement reads. It says that they consulted stakeholders and “legal experts” for “detailed considerations.”
“Trans girls and young women, and others not recorded female at birth, will no longer be able to join Girlguiding as new young members.”
Girl Guiding added that they would assemble a task force in the coming months to explore further legal options for “inclusion.” Transgender boys will still be allowed to join.
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I’ll never understand the seething hate towards trams women. Even when I was a right-wing asshole the worst opinion I had was that they were weird. Never believed in banning them or having murder fantasies like the UK seems to.
The right thrives on using negative appearances as a means of generating hate. Trans women during transition are a highly visible and easy target for this as a large majority of trans women have a learning curve to go through before passing during the transition period.
The entire base of memes in right wing spaces relies on making their enemies look ugly and themselves look ultra manly or conventionally attractive.
This is also how they generally attack feminists too.
I’m reminded forever of how the Nazis persecuted the Jews along with the propaganda, forcing them into squalid living conditions, preventing them from using new clothes so their coats frayed to rags on their backs, their homes became warrens in the ghettos, resembling the “rats” the Nazis said they were.
It’s such an ugly playbook, the anti-trans libs who act like they don’t know they’re openly being fascist? Yeah they know better. Fuck em.
You’ll never guess who the Nazis persecuted at the start.
Schoolyard bullies who never grew out of it.
Transmisogyny is ultimately just regular misogyny; Julia Serano does a pretty thorough takedown of it in the book Whipping Girl (2007, so expect some terminology to be a little dated):
This isn’t really related to the conversation at hand, but I finished Whipping Girl recently, and while I liked it quite a bit, and regularly found myself reading parts of the book and saying out loud, “oh, that’s happened to me”, some aspects of it felt decidedly…reactionary?
Maybe it’s because it’s an almost 20 year old book, and Serrano is a biologist by training, not a philosopher. But the way she leans on a “Pink brain/blue brain” ontology to make a his chunk of her arguments, and the fact that she frames what she’s doing, in the introduction, as being in opposition to so-called “Gender Revolution books” by people like Leslie Feinberg and Kate Bornstein. There’s this undercurrent of a borderline reactionary liberalism that pervades the text, that I don’t know quite how to grapple with.
Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Am I hitting at something or totally off the mark?
borderline reactionary liberalism that pervades the tex
It pervades academia
Libs sided with fascists, to fill their own pockets and let them broadcast anti-trans rhetoric across conservative/center media, now there’s people who have been taught to hate us, it’s manufactured hate. Heck even the libs started drinking the kool-aid they let slide into the public conscience.
If I had the power and influence they say I do, they would be in a nice school learning to treat trans people with the same respect as everyone else.
seething hate towards trams women
But who could hate her!?!?
Someone was bullied into buying a dozen boxes of cookies by their local troop lmao
any adult that outs a child must be immediately _________Fuck this country so much.
oi
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show me ur girl license, luv
In April Supreme Court ruling in the United Kingdom, funded in large part by anti-trans activist J.K. Rowling, overturned equal rights and protections for trans women under the Equality Act (2010)
And this is why I read Tiffany Aching to my daughter, not Harry Potter.
