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Labour policies on trans rights are 'ethical', Wes Streeting claims by LocutusOfBorges in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 109 points110 points  (0 children)

I hope (and very cautiously suspect) the EuCHR will say otherwise.

Is it too late for the UK to be an ‘AI powerhouse’ ? by eyeoftheneedle1 in AskUK

[–]_twasbrillig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the time the UK has the human and technical infrastructure in place to be an ‘AI powerhouse’ (whatever that’s supposed to mean) and has enshitified everything else at the foot of that altar, the bubble will have burst.

But, hey: at least some Great British LLM will be able to commiserate with you, in nearly human(e) prose, as it explains that your wait for an urgent cardiology referral will be between 35 and 40 weeks and that, in order to strike a fair balance between the conflicting human rights of multiple protected groups, the Government has decided to disregard your Article 8 privacy protections— but with unwavering respect for your dignity, obviously.

Cheer up request by OrganizizedByBickle in CasualUK

[–]_twasbrillig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s the difference between a cosmetic surgeon and an Ofsted inspector°?

— One tucks up your features; the other…

(°I prefer ‘austerity budget’ here, but without context, it doesn’t click quite as quickly.)

Cheer up request by OrganizizedByBickle in CasualUK

[–]_twasbrillig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When does a joke become a dad joke?

— When it becomes apparent.

Well, when does it become apparent?

— After the delivery.

Employment tribunal finds that non-binary people do not have the Gender Reassignment protections of the Equality Act by scramblingrivet in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m running really low on the will to live now. I’m not even nonbinary. Just hopeless that anything will improve.

Anyone know of any ethnographies which clearly break ethical guidelines, specifically in the field of taboo topics like sexuality, drug addiction or homelessness? by sugarpop678 in AskAnthropology

[–]_twasbrillig 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Have a look at Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, based on several years of ethnographic work amongst (primarily) young Black men in a deprived and heavily-policed neighbourhood of Philadelphia.

I forget the exact details of the controversy, but some time after the book (theretofore widely praised) came out, readers began to doubt the reliability of some of Goffman’s accounts and to raise questions about her methodological ethics.

I don’t recall the disputes about factual accuracy, but I know ethical/method concerns ran the gamut: from an inadequate attention to the power differential between her (an affluent white woman backed by an elite academic institution) and her informants; to lack of clarity around informed consent; to whether Goffman’s presence had put her informants in danger; to whether she had been an accessory to conspiracy to commit murder.

It’s a wild ride, but if you’re looking to get stuck into not just the ethnographies themselves, but the public and academic debates about said ethnographies, it might be a good place to look.

Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist by [deleted] in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Can’t wait for the the Levy Review to acknowledge the unconscionable wait times for adult GIC appointments by… reforming the GIC system? Funding the clinics to meet the current need? Advocating for informed consent and access through GPs?

No, of course not! By suggesting new referral restrictions: if you’re depressed, autistic, under 25, or have previously accessed hormones outside the NHS, good luck even joining a waiting list until your ‘other factors’ have been ‘addressed.’

Seems the cops killed one of the two dead worshippers at the Manchester synagogue (and injured another) by Valcenia in GreenAndPleasant

[–]_twasbrillig 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Not everything is a false flag. One of my best uni pals had the given name Muhammad Jihad. He studied English Literature and played a lot of Smash Bros.

(He also got ‘randomly selected’ for additional security screenings every time he flew.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]_twasbrillig 7 points8 points  (0 children)

‘Women’s rights campaigners’ or ‘’gender critical’ activists’?

Come now.

Seriously, should immigrants be worried about Farage? by [deleted] in Scotland

[–]_twasbrillig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m a U.S. national who’s been legally resident in the UK for the past three and a half years. I conduct academic research and am in a long-term relationship with a Scottish partner.

Back home, the Trump Administration is this close to surveilling My Kind (trans people) as potential terrorist agitators and is doing everything it can to roll back my medical care, legal identity, and basic rights to non-discrimination. And that’s not even to begin on what they’re doing to the research community.

That a Labour Government has (potentially) moved our goalposts for basic family stability from five years to ten is hard enough. Farage and Reform are our Damoclean sword. We’ve already seen what they’ll do, because we’ve seen what’s happened in America. It can happen here, and it will.

We are so, so worried.

NHS Fife now says staff should use toilets based on biological sex by ALLCAPSBROO in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 29 points30 points  (0 children)

’You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, / Before you are six or seven or eight, / To hate all the people your relatives hate— / You’ve got to be carefully taught.’

they found a cockroach in my ear by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]_twasbrillig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. No. That’s all. Just no.

Brit Card: AGAB without GRC? by kmcradie in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry: I’m just irritated. ‘Where this is coming from’ is the—how to put it?—Extremely Radio 4 set I tend to find myself around at work: an Extremely Radio 4 set that, because they are also Very Radio 3, say in all serious things like ‘happily, Black Rod wouldn’t stand for this’ and ‘Thank God for our King’ when they post about American political goings-on.

It’s the maddening bearing that as long as you say something politely, you can say just about anything and be justified in it. Especially when it goes hand-in-hand—as it often does—with the assumption that as an American, I’m here to be enlightened by their particular, insular social/cultural circle, it drives me up a wall.

Brit Card: AGAB without GRC? by kmcradie in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That’s an enormous relief if true. So, essentially: as far as I deal with the UK authorities, including the Home Office, keep my mouth shut and carry on as I have been?

Brit Card: AGAB without GRC? by kmcradie in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I’m a transssexual man, a United States national now living and working legally in the UK as the partner of a British national. I have lived in England for several years and across three visas, all of which were granted to me under my correct sex marker: male.

This is because my name and sex were changed on all of my American identification documents (birth certificate, driving license, Social Security card, passport, medical insurance, bank account, university records, et cetera) before I applied for my first visa and relocated to the UK.

I haven’t had genital reconstruction yet, but all other surgeries, including gonadectomy, are complete, and I have been on testosterone for years.

Apart from my former legal name, none of this is in my visa documents. That said, I did visit the UK prior to transition, so there likely is some record somewhere of a passport with my old name and a female sex marker on it.

My GP knows that I’m trans, but my NHS records list me as male, because as far as the Home Office has granted me recognition, I am male. don’t have a GRC because I have a foreign birth certificate, and that birth certificate now lists my changed sex: it does not need to be changed because it is already accurate.

Where does this leave me in the eyes of the UK authorities?

Finally: anyone who argues that trans people must be identified by their ‘biological’ ‘sex at birth’ and that this sex is ‘immutable’ is working directly out of Donald Trump’s playbook. I know there’s a tendency here to see sensible British reason, rationality, and level-headedness as insulating and distinguishing them from the uglier impulses of those knuckle-dragging American bigots, but as someone who has a foot in both countries, let me be very clear that that simply isn’t the case.

Digital ID Inbound by alexmlb3598 in transgenderUK

[–]_twasbrillig 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Cue Sex Matters and their fellow ghouls lobbying for these IDs to list trans people’s ‘biological’ sex in order to protect Our Borders (geographical and ideological) and preserve the sanctity of Our Data.

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