Petition-please Help UK Trans People!
petition-please help UK trans people!
hi tumblr-the conservative party is back at it again.
currently, the GRA (gender recognition act) says to transition “legally”, trans people have to:
get two diagnoses of gender dysphoria (including one from an NHS gender clinic, which have a 2-3 year wait time currently),
prove you have lived as your chosen gender for 2 years,
swear to live the remainder of your life as such
and do all of this in front of a “gender recognition panel”, a process which is very humiliating and largely depends on people deciding if you are “trans enough”.
in 2018, the idea was put on the table to progress the rights of transgender people in the UK. Including:
allowing them to self identify as their chosen gender (including 16 & 17 year olds, who have previously been denied the right to)
demedicalising the transition progress, no doctors would need to diagnose gender dysphoria to transition.
removing the cost to have your gender legally recognised
allow non-binary identities to be recognised
it has recently been leaked that the current government has scrapped these ideas [source source]. Our equality minister, Liz Truss, is horribly transphobic and wishes to backpedal on the few rights we have.
trans people have said for years that the GRA is outdated and in need of reform, and have had the tiny ray of hope that it may be changed ripped out from under us behind closed doors.
petitions on the parliament website are legally obligated to be responded to at 10k signatures and have to be debated in parliament at 100k signatures.
only british citizens can sign this, but if you are not from the uk, please boost it so your british followers can see!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/327108
thank you-and fuck the tories ✌🏳🌈
More Posts from The-nyx-mere and Others
One of my biggest reasons for why low-empathy autistic Martin is my favorite is how much it demolishes the whole “empathy = morality” and “low empathy = bad, feels other people don’t matter” thing. I have a lot of feelings so am gonna just dump ‘em all here in a disjointed manifesto.
Just look at it: He has a reputation for caring and for doting on people, but relies on tangible, accessible ways to show it. Bring them tea. Tell them to sleep. Listen to their problems. It’s very learned, or self-taught rather, and makes so much sense in the context of how he grew up caring for his mother. He flounders when those scripts are rejected:
Basira: You can’t just stand next to someone with a cup of tea and hope everything’s gonna be all right.
Martin: That’s not fair. You don’t even know me.
Basira: Prove it.
Martin: Oh–h-hi! Hey, hey Melanie, uh– Can I get youuuu… a… cup… of… tea?
Even when the apocalypse happened, he was using those scripts. Jon is in pain, Jon is despairing, time to make him a cup of tea! Martin’s never been in a “tea will solve everything” denial, but it’s a reliable, tangible way he uses to offer comfort and make someone feel supported. He doesn’t have a script for how to respond to “was just mentally tortured by our boss” or “blaming self for ending the world.”
We see him develop a new way to choose to care and be kind as their journey begins: treating the victims they meet as people, even if the victims can’t hear.
Also building off of the “the masking is lower priority in the apocalypse” ideas!! There’s a matter of who he’s around. For most of season 5, it’s just Jon! Jon who has so much faith in him, Jon who he knows loves and accepts him. There’s less of a need to perform and fit in, and the same goes the other way around. This is supported even more by how quickly Martin shifted back when Basira showed up: this is familiar territory again, defusing arguments and being group glue, and it quickly feels like we’re back to “the old Martin.”
I also love this for how it plays out in him and Jon being in a relationship. It’s very likely this is new territory for Martin! He demonstrates his caring by pushing Jon to share his feelings, but rarely shares his own. When he actually hears what those feelings are, they’re often hard for him to process, or he responds in ways that feel overly pragmatic or insensitive. It doesn’t come naturally to him.
There’s a jab Peter keeps returning to during season 4 as he tries to groom Martin for the Lonely: Be honest with yourself, Martin. You don’t really care, Martin. You never really cared, it’s all just habit. It’s so on-the-nose targeted towards someone where caring for others is a choice, not based on empathetic feelings. It’s so in line with how people talk about the idea of “low empathy.” But Martin threw it right back in his face, and it couldn’t be more satisfying.
being poor is traumatic. even if you’re not homeless or starving. never being able to get anything nice for yourself, never being able to go out to eat without feeling guilty, never being able to do anything fun that isn’t free, making you housebound in bad weather because you can’t afford to go to a cafe or a movie. it takes a toll. being poor under capitalism makes your life a waking nightmare. this post must be reblogged by everyone.
tw // rape , sexual assault
in case you are still ignorant about what’s happening in India right now, here’s a link to numerous articles from news agencies highlighting it for you.
the first incident that sparked it off was in Hathras, a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh. a Dalit woman was gang raped almost two weeks ago but the case didn’t gain any major media coverage because it was, apparently, “normal”. she died a few days ago, and the Uttar Pradesh police cremated her body in the middle of the night at 2:40 AM without the consent of her family. they were locked inside their house and not allowed to see their daughter for one last time.
a minor was kidnapped and gang raped by three men in Madhya Pradesh a day after the young woman from Hathras died and was cremated without her family’s consent.
Bulandshahr, another city in Uttar Pradesh; a man raped a 14 year old girl. another example of blatant incompetence by the government.
these are the statistics of India presently. 87 rape cases are reported per day in Uttar Pradesh alone. PER DAY. that’s only the people who actually gathered up the courage to approach law enforcement, or what is left of it, anyway.
Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh. a young woman is drugged and gang raped, and loses her life. she is mutilated and left for dead. one day after what happened in Hathras. one day.
Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. an 8 year old girl is raped. this incident happens one day after Hathras. just one day.
here’s coverage from the BBC, if you are wary of domestic news agencies. i think CNN covered it, but other than that, i haven’t heard of any major international agencies that have talked about this yet.
this is crucial. this is critical. this is atrocious. this might not be the brand of aesthetic that you have on your blog, but please help the people of our country spread this news. let the utter incompetence and evidence tampering to save the accused on the part of the police and the government be highlighted. let everyone know that the people currently in power care nothing for women or for minorities until it sparks national outrage, and then, and only then, do they even consider breaking a silence on a topic they should have spoken out on and taken the strictest action possible against so long ago.
i will do my best to keep this updated, but it is so emotionally and mentally exhausting, waking up every day to horror after horror and knowing that the government is doing nothing to help, has never done anything to help.
please make sure this news reaches as many people as possible. please, speak up. please keep talking about this. don’t let them fade away as yet another statistic.
tma fans are like “i love them so much asuqjdiqkwkzj” and the character looks like this
https://mobile.twitter.com/beadagainstfash/status/1317108266388828160
Reblog for those who might need it.
hey so protip if you have abusive parents and need to get around the house as quietly as possible, stay close to furniture and other heavy stuff because the floor is settled there and it’s less likely to creak
dont let people tell u ur attraction to fire is "abnormal" or "hazardous" prometheus doesnt have his liver eaten every day for u to ignore the allure of arson
I identify as a villain because I'm already queer-coded and don't feel like being the quirky best friend who dies for motivation.
Noice
can a guy not braid his hair in peace
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