Empower dead people
Well now that’s just silly.
Dead people should be able to change their gender, says Labour MP
Dead people can’t change anything, on account of being dead.
A Labour MP has called for the law to be changed so transgender people can have their gender changed posthumously in official records.
Well they can’t do that either, because people of any kind can’t do anything posthumously. They can leave instructions for other people to do things, but they can’t posthumously do them themselves. Aren’t journalists expected to know how to use words?
I guess this is so all the females who are notable throughout history can be changed to males? Especially Queen Elizabeth?
This sounds so…Mormon.
There you go again centering cis dead people with their non-living privilege while denying the
liveddead experience of trans corpses.I’m sure the original idea is that someone who indicates that they want their tombstone, obit and so forth to read about their trans identity rather than their pre-trans name and gender, should ahve the right to do so.
However, after a decade of seeing the trans movement’s activities, I’m pretty sure that yes, the principle will be applied to numerous historical figures who have been ‘decoded’ as being trans. They’ll probably start with the easy cases, like George Elliot (easy in that it’s a superficially appealing argument because of the pseudonym, not because it’s remotely true–Elliot was bypassing bias against her sex by using a male pseudonym, not claiming to be a man), and then on to others. Might take ’em a bit to get to QEI and QEII, but I’m sure they will.
QEI is a cut-and-dried case. She even outed herself in her speech to the troops assembled at Tilbury in expectation of a Spanish invasion* when she declared “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king”. You see? Everybody knew back then that the soul resided in the heart. Who would have thought that 21st. Century TRA’s would revive 16th. Century beliefs?
* An invasion that never came. The Spanish fleet, sent to smash the English navy, had been driven from the Strait of Dover in the Battle of Gravelines eleven days earlier, rounded Scotland and was headed back to Spain. The Spanish troops under the Duke of Parma, assembled at Dunkirk for a land invasion once the British fleet had been smashed, likewise dispersed, so the forces at Tilbury, assembled to meet this threat, were disbanded two days after the queen’s speech to them.