How we got here
Godalmighty. If only people would learn how to think. Just a little would do.
“There are a number of people who genuinely believe that they are trapped in the wrong body and they want to be recognized as the gender that their mind and soul has always told them that they are.”
One, she doesn’t know how many people “genuinely” believe that. Two, so what? People can “genuinely believe” all kinds of stupid shit; it doesn’t follow that we have to act as if their beliefs were true. Who even has the time? There are so many wack beliefs out there, we can’t possibly keep up. But more to the point, we shouldn’t keep up. We shouldn’t humor people, much less encourage them, in absurd beliefs. In the long run it’s not good for them, and in all runs it’s not good for us. How about they humor us for a change instead? “That is bullshit: you are your body, it’s not some separate thing you sit in, like a car.”
And we especially shouldn’t humor stupid beliefs when they are harmful, and that goes times a billion when they cancel the rights of the despised half of humanity.
And people in Gillard’s line of work have no business telling us to lie for the sake of people with silly beliefs about themselves. It’s not fair to us. We don’t have any duty to pretend it’s not childish nonsense to insist you’re in the wrong body. Everybody out of the pool, it’s time to grow up now.
And, of course, no modern, secular society should give a flying fuck what someone’s soul is telling them. They just can’t keep the religious language out of it for long, can they? Really gives the whole game away.
Gillard was publicly atheist long before this time. How did she agree to this wording? And I’ve always wondered who was advising her on these issues over 10 years ago. Back then, almost nobody would’ve understood what she was talking about?
At the same time these changes were made, Gillard was opposing same sex marriage (to placate the religious right)….
I’m definitely trapped in the wrong body, judging by what a ridiculously good life my cat has. I demand my right to a cat life! Look, he just got more crunchy treats! It’s unfair.
(Seriously, my assertion is about as valid as a man claiming that he is actually a woman. FFS. Grow _up_, indeed!)
I am not any kind of lawyer but as far as I understand the hand of European governments was forced by arrests of the EVRM. There was the Goodwin/United Kingdom arrest in 2002. Which stated that transsexuals too, have the right of full recognition of the right of personal development and the right of full physical and moral security. The council also indicated that states had to recognize gender changes.
This statement is unoffensive.
This statement is offensive.
It indicates that what the gender changers are wanting is not the same rights, but additional rights. They could argue, of course, that we will all have that right, but it is the reality of what that entails that is the problem. Recognition of a fantasy is bad enough; laws to enforce recognition of that fantasy on others are beyond problematic. Such laws are a tyrannical abuse of power.