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Gilead? What’s that got to do with anything?
More appropriation, that’s what it’s got to do with. The Handmaid’s Tale is about a theocratic enslavement of women. It’s not about trans people or the state of being trans. There can be books about women. They don’t all have to be about men who say they feel like women.
Also, are trans parents people who don’t have any children but say they feel like parents?
They should appreciate this (if it were really happening). Nothing would validate their claims to be women more than being spoken at, over, through, and around.
The Tavistock didn’t lose its case because “trans young people” (old people? Old not-people?) were denied a voice. It lost because it didn’t present any evidence in its favour, despite having been repeatedly asked and having the nature of the required evidence spelled out to them explicitly. This is because the evidence, had they presented it, would have looked worse than their pretending there isn’t any.
Foxy is as close to lying here as makes no difference.
I’m no legal scholar but I seriously doubt that a barrister can dictate what decisions the Courts can or cannot reach. I can see a certain Q.C. getting his wrist slapped if he continues in this vein. He certainly isn’t endearing himself to the judges, at any rate, and yes, I know that the law is supposed to be impartial but human nature being what it is, antagonising judges might not do him any favours in court.
And a nice analogy with Trump, if I may say so. He has antagonized most of the professional civil service by insulting them and implying (or outright stating) their incompetence. Now a lot of them are not so eager to turn upside down for him.