UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/29/uks-first-trans-judge-victoria-mccloud-appeals-to-european-court-over-supreme-court-ruling
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manxu@piefed.social · 63 pts · 1y
This is the stupidest culture war, fought with the stupidest people on one side and a marginalized group that really just would like to live a life without fear on the other. Not even "without fear," because apparently that's asking too much. Just no state-sanctioned fear.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -68 pts · 1y
I just see stupid and crazy people on both sides at this point tbh
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 1y
Oh yes the both sides argument...
I can see how all of those trans people are offending you with their... Checks notes... Desire to exist.
Truly we live in a mad world.
MrPoletki@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 1y
There are THREE sides in the trans debate (besides not interested in it).
You are either pro trans rights, anti trans rights, or a russian bot sent here to pretend to be one of those previous two and drag the debate into the sewer as much as possible.
Diva@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
hey some of us are Russian bots who just happen to be trans, rather than for nefarious reasons
casmael@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
будь осторожен, Сергей, ты раскроешь наше прикрытие
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -13 pts · 1y
The pro trans rights crowd calls me "anti trans rights" or a "bigot" and the anti trans rights crowd calls me "pro trans rights" or a "groomer"
stray@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1y
I think the issue is that you're out here having opinions on trans people/issues when you don't really know that much about the topic at all. I mean, you've got "the surgery" and "transgenderism" in your post history, and you're arguing in favor of keeping trans women out of women's restrooms. A lot of what you say is just kind of casually transphobic in like an ignorant way, but I feel like you probably don't mean to contribute to bigotry, right? I wish I had some reading material I could recommend. Check if your local library has a rainbow shelf?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
I like to learn but also give my current perspective and where I'm at. People are free to change my mind if they like to challenge it.
briever@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
briever@lemm.ee · -3 pts · 1y
Your post is a perfect example of why some think this is a binary issue - generally it's an age thing, you don't develop an understanding of nuance until you're older.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -24 pts · 1y
Nah, I've seen some be completely mental and threaten to burn down their GP or be absolutely unhinged. I've also seen people be unhinged and want them to kill themselves. It's madness.
AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
You have not seen people trying to burn down their GP. Quit making shit up.
As for being suicidal... That sounds like a pretty good reason to give people access to the medical care they actually need.
Imagine for a minute that you are a man and were in a car accident. During this accident your dick was cut off.
Surgical techniques exist to reattach your dick but the law says you must now live as a woman. You find a doctor who is willing to reattach your penis, something that you don't have an infinite amount of time to do because it's rapidly becoming a non-viable penis.
Suddenly, some asshole goes on television and says that people who want to have their penises reattached are pedophiles and any doctor who helps them is a monster. They put your picture on the news, they tell everybody that you're trying to pretend you're not a woman now.
How much of that do you think you need to put up with before you get pretty fucking pissed off?
Who's insane here? Who's acting irrationally? Who is the aggressor?
I'm a bog standard model of human male but I think if I were put in that situation I'd be weighing the value of the life of a person who would deny me my own body.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -11 pts · 1y
How about you quit gaslighting me?
I don't necessarily have anything against sex reassignment surgery. It's a person's body, and if it's what medical experts think is best for their immediate mental wellbeing, then I think it's fair, although should be a last resort as it's permanent.
I am aware some people do get the sex reassignment surgery and it doesn't help them, turns out it was a different problem and they just persuaded themselves that it would be what would fix their problem (which occasionally is other traumas or underlying self hatred). I've also known people who've pulled out of transitioning due to them realising it wasn't the solution to their problem.
I've also seen people who've tried everything, tried to live a normal life, but the dysphoria also got them down.
I do think there should be research done into seeing if there is a cure or therapies for gender dysphoria, and use sex changes as a last resort. but right now, sex changes appear to be one of the most effective options if someone is truly experiencing dysphoria. But again, they should have everything else ruled out first (instead of the headcase that I referenced in the video above, sounds like she first self diagnosed online, started self treating, THEN went to her GP demanding further treatment for an illness they hadn't even been diagnosed with. That's like the time I had symptoms of anaemia and people were suggesting I skip the GP and get iron tablets, when it turned out to be a folate deficiency, because I went to a GP)
I'm aware of the arguments for and against the trans debate. I've been often changing my opinions on it, back and forth. But I hate the climate around it where you have to conform to a specific viewpoint or get labelled as a "bigot".
To both sides, what I'd say: If you believe me to be a monster for not 100% agreeing with you, then just conclude that I'm a monster already. I'm sick of playing these games, trying to change my opinion to appease others. I'd rather we would focus on supporting people and preserving life and what's best for them.
Diva@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
The most effective (and reversible) treatment should be a last resort, because you think that people aren't truly experiencing dysphoria, and even if they are everything else needs to be ruled out first.
the video you cite is someone who is impoverished and unwell dealing with a system that is intentionally disfunctional and has clearly been overreacting making threats that aren't even really actionable considering how poor they are. Having a mental health condition exacerbated by poverty and a disfunctional healthcare system doesn't mean your other conditions aren't real.
Broadly speaking being gender nonconforming is more likely to cause you to end up in poverty simply because your bigoted family might just cut all support from you and leave you to fend for yourself with a hostile system. having to live in poverty and not even able to get medical care then exacerbates pretty much every underlying mental health issue regardless of gender.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
Sex change operations carry permanent effects. They aren't reversible like puberty blockers. A simple google search will teach you that. This is where emotion and agenda contradicts medical fact. If somebody isn't actually experiencing dysphoria, then they shouldn't get a sex change. It needs to be confirmed that they actually are experiencing dysphoria and not self conscious like some people I know have been, including myself, and thus thinking a different gender identity is the solution when it isn't. At one point in my life I wanted my nose removed.
A family kicking someone out for having gender identity issues is disgusting and not okay.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website · 17 pts · 1y
You've actually seen trans people, in person, threaten to burn down a surgery building? I doubt this.
As for people being suicidal, that's a known problem which happens as a result of being trans in a country that wants to deny them support, which is exactly why trans people are trying to get recognition in the first place. Denying that isn't exactly going to make their mental health any better, and they can't be blamed for that.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -8 pts · 1y
I didn't see it in person. But I did see it online.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1y
So you claim to have seen evidence.
That trans people come as sane or insane as everyone else.
Not sure you are making any point at all.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -4 pts · 1y
I've also seen insane trans-critical people as well, with a severe lack of compassion.
I could repost my comment in a conservative group and get the same backlash but for calling people who are critical of transgenderism insane.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 1y
As I say. Every group of humanity comes in all levels of mental health.
Non of it makes any difference to this debate. Other then to normalise trans behaviour.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -4 pts · 1y
I thought the whole thing with gender dysphoria is that it wasn't normal?
HawlSera@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
You give up the game when you call transgender an "ism"
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
I'm not good with terminology around these subjects
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Its hard to take the trans community serious when they are just as bigoted as those they shit on. Extremely aggressive online moderation too in those communities. Theres gotta be a phrase for someone who acts like those they despise.
LwL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
You can find unhinged crazies on both sides of just about any argument. It shouldn't really affect what you think of the subject matter at hand anyway tbh.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -3 pts · 1y
Makes it hard to figure out who to listen to tbh.
pupbiru@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y
the only argument that matters: let people live their lives however they like as long as it doesn’t impact anyone else
trans rights fit this absolutely perfectly
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · -1 pts · 1y
That's fair, but the debate is now about impacting everyone else
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Listen to the real arguments and ignore the crazies?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
Who have the real arguments and who are the crazies
mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 33 pts · 1y
It's simply bizarre that Labour have chosen this hill to die on. After the SC ruling, Labour should have come out and said: that given the ambiguity in the law has been resolved but in a way that doesn't account for trans people, we will be bringing forward updated legislation to close the gap. Sort of like the whole Civil Partnership vs Marriage idiocy.
The basic principle should be: don't be a cunt. And then work from there.
MrPoletki@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y
110%
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It is not bizarre, it is literally their job to move the overturn window right and only punch left.
SpaceShort@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 1y
Let's go! I hope it is successful.
MrPoletki@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 1y
careful, this could be just what reform need to revive their leave the ECHR bullshit.
steeznson@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
They could resolve this with more legislation. The 2010/11 equalities act is ambiguous the way it is written so Labour need to pass more legislation to resolve it. "Use the disabled toilets" is not a satisfactory answer.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website · 4 pts · 1y
(aside: I keep messing up with parsing the acronyms ECHR and EHRC.)
I doubt this will lead to anything positive, possibly even starmer aping conservative's desire to leave human rights bodies altogether, but I wish them luck all the same.