Excellent video. About three-quarters of the way through is a link Iâd never seen before:
So thank you for that.
p.s. Our local MP is supposedly âMark Lancasterâ, but the link has him down as âJohn Mark Lancasterâ.
What is it with these fucking Tories that they canât even keep their name straight?
Referencing Anthony Boris deFuckpig Johnson.
The Tories have no chance of winning here, so I want to vote for someone who isnât a TER. Unfortunately Annelise Dodds is a weathercock who hasnât worked out that the middle ground is like the Somme, the Green Party seem to be in civil war over the issue (although it looks like we are winning) and the Lib Dems are awful for everything but trans rights.
I donât know who Iâll vote for now.
Wasnât that David Cameronâs middle name?
I understand itâs quite a common middle name in certain demographics.
Yeah but on the plus side, this is still just âguidanceâ - most teachers will ignore it, and the bigoted teachers will carry on as they always have.
I mean, I know we have the nickname of TERF Island, but honestly, I reckon there are fewer people who actually care about this than there are actually trans people. Itâs just that, unfortunately, all the ones who are pretending to care about it are in the UK cabinet or the media.
A spokesperson for Ron Wyden, the Democratic chair of the Senate finance committee, told Politico: âIt is Senator Wydenâs view that the United States and United Kingdom should not make announcements until a deal that benefits Americans is achievable.â
Thatâs (pretty harsh) diplomatic speak for âquit yapping, Rishiâ
There is no plus side here to these constant attacks on the trans community.
that can change quickly. Donât underestimate how quickly a minority of people can be thrown under the bus for the convenience of the majority.
Please donât think I am somehow in favour of this? The âguidanceâ could have been a lot, lot worse (Liz Truss apparently thinks it should have denied the existence of trans people altogether, for instance) but even as it stands it is absurd.
And yes, I am also aware how things can change quickly, but it also changes in all directions. When even the Roman Catholic Church can concede that same sex marriage might be a real thing, thatâs a very fast change. (Again, I recognise that this is not remotely comparable or even necessarily useful but as a datapoint I find it interesting.)
It is certainly true that a lot of people havenât ever thought about it, and are therefore liable to be influenced by the media commentators that they read, and if those commentators talk about nothing else then there is clearly a real effect. But I do genuinely think that sometimes that obsession merely ends up making the writers look silly rather than actually changing the rest of us for the worse.
I didnât say that. Iâm saying that this targeting of a minority can spin out of control, even in a country that seems ânormalâ⌠thatâs precisely what happened in Germany in the 30s. The rest of antisemitism prior to the rise of the nazis was actually rather low, compared to other European countries. That turned quickly and to apocalyptic proportions, not just against Jewish people either, against all kinds of groups in the country considered âabnormalâ. Any of that kind of language needs push back early and often, because you never know whatâs coming down the pike. The depression gave people the space they needed to really popularize various kinds of bigotry. Given how unstable the global economy tends to be lately, that can happen again, pretty easily.
My point is that you address this issue and push back against bigots NOW before it takes over a mainstream faction. 
No shrugging our shoulders, just because itâs a tiny minority being targeted by another, loud minority in the country (who just happen to be a major constituent part of the ruling party right now - just like at how the PM was recently cozying up to a fascist down in Italy).
This story just keeps on getting odder- Now it appears that sheâs mounting a media campaign to make her look better? It isnât working.
More context, if you need it:
(In passing, I see that several much more informed people than me have noted that much of this âguidanceâ contravenes the Equalities Act 2010, so if a school tried to follow all of it, theyâd be getting themselves into actual real legal trouble. Again, this doesnât diminish the fact that this government thought this guidance was a good idea in the first place, but it does tend to suggest that they were only trying for a good headline in the Mail tomorrow rather than a real attempt to shift things.)
Once again, i feel the need to stress, that this can still have real world consequences. We were told, over and over again, that things like the right campaigning on abortion rights here in the states werenât an actual thing to be concerned with and that theyâd never really end abortion rights, because then theyâd lose a campaign issue⌠Same with the first trans bathroom bans - we were told that they were just attention seeking bills that would never have any real impact on people, and they donât really want to hurt trans kids⌠but now⌠well, just read Erin Reedâs newsletter (Erin in the Morning) about the avalanche of anti-trans laws being passed in Republican controlled states and the real world implications for people here. It never stays in the realm of headline seeking, unless it gets serious pushback from the general public. And so far, it doesnât look like the conservatives are done leaning farther right, because they keep retaining power, despite their obvious incompetence.
This kind of thing can shift real quick. Hell, just look at what happened with Brexit, and how everyone was dismissing that as a real threat.
Add another one to the list:
Leaked emails reveal that the tech giant Palantir has hired Topham Guerin to pay influencers to attack Good Law Project on social media â but the source of the money is to be kept âconfidentialâ.
Terrorists on different sides have committed to peace and faced consequences. The British state has not.
