"UK refusal to issue gender-neutral passports unlawful, high court told"

dowie · 19 Apr 2018 at 22:21

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...er-neutral-passports-unlawful-high-court-told

surprised this didn't get picked up already, can't find the current SJW thread but it seems GD-worthy anyway

Issuing gender-neutral passports would not require any change in UK law and the documents would be recognised internationally, the high court has been told.

The Home Office’s refusal to provide non-gendered X passports breached privacy and human rights and was unlawful, Kate Gallafent QC said.

I don't see why the government wants to kick up such a fuss over it tbh... hardly a big deal if someone wants to pretend they're "non-binary" or define themselves and some other special thing... just stick an X on the passport and they can carry on with their issues.

Anyway, what say you GD?

dowie · 20 Apr 2018 at 15:46

Malevolence said:
What the government asks schoolkids in Brighton.

thing is if they'd presented me or any of my friends a form like that when we were in school they'd almost certainly get half the boxes ticked and plenty of silly additional made up ones in the comments section...

dowie · 22 Apr 2018 at 02:10

RDM said:
My guess is that there was a bit more to it than that.

well he's an evangelical but it seems he was sacked for misgendering a pupil

http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/10/teacher-sues-school-sacked-calling-transgender-boy-girl-7147404/

In a statement released by the Christian Legal Centre on Sunday, the religious lobby group claimed Sutcliffe hadn’t received formal training on how to refer to the pupil – and referred to being transgender as a ‘delusion’. ‘The child had self-declared as “male”, but Mr Sutcliffe, who had been given no formal instruction on how he was to refer to the pupil, said “well done girls” in her (sic.) presence,’ the statement said.

‘When the pupil became irate, Mr Sutcliffe sought to diffuse the situation and apologised. ‘Nonetheless an investigation began, during which time Mr Sutcliffe was prevented from teaching and forced to spend all his time in isolation in the staff room.

‘Following the week-long investigation, the school found Mr Sutcliffe to have “misgendered” the pupil, “demonstrating discriminatory behaviours” and “contravened the school’s equality policy”.’

dowie · 22 Jun 2018 at 13:20

I forgot the campaigner for this also identifies as Lord Voldemort:

dowie · 23 Jun 2018 at 00:36

itchy said:
You cannot have gender neutrality.

You either hetro, rainbow, or greedy aka as in bisexual.

Sick of all this its stupid.

But aren't you referring to sexuality there rather than gender?

dowie · 23 Jun 2018 at 00:47

itchy said:
No its the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered_sexuality

it's all so confusing these days:

dowie · 23 Jun 2018 at 01:28

itchy said:
Pmsl at the comment from Sasha Tourk.

Its a woman's penis WTF! lol

I guess that within the framework of their belief system (whereby simply stating you're now a woman is sufficient) then they're kind of consistent.

the "something about sucking a **** just feels queer to me" is brilliant too