#gender recognition certificate

[turnaboutstevie]

hey, UK trans allies, do you have a minute?

There's a new petition asking the government to add an amendment to the GRA, allowing the families of trans people to get a posthumous GRC for their deceased trans family members, and allowing terminally ill trans people to get a GRC, so they can be buried with the dignity they deserve.

I don't have my hopes up (we all know the governments track record) but I also think that anything is worth a shot. Trans people deserve dignity in death, too.

(If you're not from the UK, please share it! Don't listen to people who tell you to use a fake postcode to sign- even one fake signature could void the whole petition. Please don't take that risk <3)

#trans rights #trans rights are human rights #transgender #trans #trans women #trans men #gender reform #gender recognition act #gender recognition certificate #trans uk #uk trans #ukpol

[fayrobertsuk]

X Marks the Spot

Okay, UK Citizens, we're giving this another go. Sign and/ or share, please (if you're not UK-based, PLEASE share). It went pretty much as you'd expect last time: decent public support, got to debate stage, some lovely speeches from supportive MPs, then… random shit about women's prisons and sports from people unwilling to do anything to address the actual issues in prisons and gendered sports. 🙄

So behold, we're going to try again to join the increasing numbers of countries out there who allow an X or similar on the passports and driving licences of nonbinary folk.

(And we'll keep bloody trying until the UK rejoins the 21st Century.)

#nonbinary #petition #important #gender recognition act #gender recognition reform #gender recognition certificate #gender stuff #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt rights #lgbtqia #lgbtqplus #queer community #lgbtqia+ #queer #human rights #uk government #UK politics #trans rights #Transphobia #Enbyphobia #Sign and share #Please

[gwydionmisha]

#UK #Trans Woman #Gender Recognition #Gender Recognition Certificate #News

[boldlygoingtolidl]

transphobia is being against medical transition while also being against gender recognition without the use of medical transition

#lookin at you jkr #THE NEW GRC COULD HAVE ELIMINATED THE NEED FOR SURGERY #fuck transphobes #fuck transphobia #transphobia #tw transphobia #trans #transgender #trans rights are human rights #gender recognition certificate #lgbt+ rights

[kiramoore626]

Scotland: Gender law reforms pass first vote with ‘overwhelming’ Holyrood support

Scotland: Gender law reforms pass first vote with ‘overwhelming’ Holyrood support

Scotland: Gender law reforms pass first vote with ‘overwhelming’ Holyrood support A bill to streamline the laborious process on how trans people can change their gender on legal documents in Scotland has passed its first vote. 

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#Colin Macfarlane #Gender #Gender Recognition Certificate #LGBTQ #MSP Maggie Chapman #Scotland #Tim Hopkins #Transgender #Vic Valentine

[stone-monkey]

In other news, I'm getting in Married in exactly 1 year.

#personal #we booked the registry office #I know I don't talk about my life too much here but I've been engaged for a few years #and my fiance just got his gender recognition certificate so we started moving things forward

[chaoticgouda]

!! it’s nice to hear some good news for once 💕

#transgender #transgender rights #scotland #if you don’t have time to watch: there’s a bill being voted on in scottish parliament- #that could make it fair easier to acquire your gender recognition certificate #lowering the age from 18 to 16 and reducing the time you had to live openly beforehand from 2 years to 3 months

[cooking-with-hailstones]

For anyone not in the UK like me (or if you are in the UK and you like concise, well researched videos about major news events), TLDR News did a great segment on WHAT THE HECK is happening in Scotland right now and why it's a big freaking deal.

#UK politics #ukpoli #scotland #politics #trans stuff #gender recognition certificates #gender recognition act #scottish politics #emily talks #Youtube

[nutpunisher]

The concept of a gender recognition certificate is so fucking funny to me I think we should give them out to everyone they should be like ribbons at the science fair

#me getting a gender recognition certificate every time i wear makeup #im too shitty at it to get a gender achievement certificate :(

[so-i-did-this-thing]

FLORIDA BANS GENDER MARKER CHANGES ON DRIVERS LICENSES

From Esqueer_ on Twitter:

"BREAKING: Florida has taken unilateral administrative action and banned gender marker changes on drivers licenses. Any trans person who has had theirs changed is potentially subject to suspension. Anyone attempting to change it after could be criminally prosecuted for "fraud."

If the language used in this directive is taken at face value, any trans person driving with a changed gender marker on their drivers license could be criminally charged with fraud.

This interpretation could potentially apply to anyone driving in the state, including tourists.

Any out trans person could have their license revoked or suspended at any time under this policy and unlikely to be able to be renewed with the current gender marker.

This is a massive and intrusive change erasing legal recognition and criminalizing trans people in the state."

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It should be clear by now that those of us who are currently in "legal" limbo waiting for our birth certificate ammendments are SOL.

Trans Floridians and trans folks driving through Florida, please be very, very careful. Trans Floridians about to change your gender marker - unfortunately, I suggest cancelling your DMV appointment, in the event an overzealous clerk wants to charge you with fraud. Don't even bother with the birth certificate -- it will be a waste of time and money and potentially put you on some sort of List. :/

Again, I urge all trans Americans, regardless of state of residency, to get their passports asap. Not only to flee the country in an emergency, but as a form of ID that still has your proper gender on it.

#trans stuff #floridian #transphobia #transgender

[metanarrates]

I haven't seen a lot of coverage in the news about this, but my state has just advanced legislation on a bill that would criminalize trans bathroom use in publicly owned buildings. this could mean up to 6 months in jail and up to $1000 in fees for those convicted.

most alarming aspects of this bill:

-"publicly owned buildings" include airports, schools, libraries, government offices, some hospitals, and most terrifyingly AND explicitly within the bill, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis facilities. transgender people, who are estimated to be almost 4 times more likely to be victims of violent crimes than cisgender people, could become criminalized in the very spaces they seek out to shelter from abuse.

-on that note, the bill potentially threatens federal funding of already-underfunded domestic violence and sexual assault facilities. to recieve federal grants, facilities are required to follow nondiscrimination laws. this law could place the facilities in danger of losing the grants they rely on. this is severely going to impact victims' abilities to access critically needed services.

-the bill legally defines "sex" in a way that has a lot of potential impact across state legislature. according to the bill’s text, HB 257 would legally define a female as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions in a way that could produce ova,” and a male as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions to fertilize the ova of a female.” this could effectively end the state's legal recognition of trans people.

-the bill demands that trans people who DO use bathrooms in publicly owned buildings must have undergone both gender reassignment surgery and have had their birth certificate changed. this has several issues, obviously, but the biggest one I want to highlight is that this opens the door to potential genital inspection by law enforcement if someone is accused of being transgender in a bathroom. in addition to any other indignities suffered by being harassed by cops when trying to use the restroom, it is completely possible for law enforcement to now demand to see whether someone's genitals are in compliance with these laws. it's an unconscionable and humiliating invasion of privacy.

-the bill requires trans students to develop a "privacy plan" with their school in order to arrange access to unisex spaces. if unisex bathrooms are unavailable, the student can be granted access to a sex-designated space “through staggered scheduling or another policy provision that provides for temporary private access.”

-the bill allows the state’s attorney general to impose a fine of up to $10,000 per day on local governments that don’t enforce the bill. in essence, any government that isn't sufficiently committed to enforcing these draconian laws may face massive fines until they have reached the attorney general's standard of enforcement.

this is one of the most unbelievably severe anti-trans laws that have ever been proposed in the united states. it would effectively ban trans people from participating in public life, harm nearly every single victim of domestic violence and sexual assault who seeks services in the state, enforce criminality on random trans people in bathrooms, and open every single person who could be potentially accused of being trans up to a wave of harassment and discrimination from both private citizens and law enforcement. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that this law would literally force me and my transfemme fiancee to flee this state.

the law's been fast tracked to an insane degree through the legislature. similarly to the anti-dei bill currently making its way through, it's only been a week since it was introduced, and it's already passed the house, and is now up for vote in the senate. if it passes both sets of votes, the only thing left in its way is the governor's decision to veto.

please share this post. make as much noise as you can. if you live in utah, please call and email your district senator as soon as possible. it doesn't matter how late you see this. the bill is up for vote this week (1/23/24 at the time of writing) and we need to do whatever we physically can to protest its passing. we've already moved past the opportunity for public comment on the bill, but a few organizations have called for a rally at the capitol steps on thursday (1/25/24) at noon. if you are in the salt lake area or are able to make it there, please consider attending. wear a mask and bring a sign. we are stronger together.

#narrates #signal boost #please tag anyone you can think of with a large platform in this post. we need this to spread asap

[ayeforscotland]

Ludicrous decision by the UK government who have announced they will refuse to recognise Scottish Gender Recognition certificates.

This will force trans people to apply for a separate GRC for the rest of the UK.

#ayeforscotland #scotland #scottish politics #british politics #uk politics

[coochiequeens]

“Pouring piss is an anarchist act of resistance that stakes an urgent and lingering claim on our basic human rights … If you take away our toilets we will make one on your doorstep.” Said no oppressed group ever

Trans activists in London staged a urine-filled protest outside of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on Monday in response to proposed alterations to the Equality Act which would strengthen women’s sex-based rights.

Members of the organization Pissed Off Trannies (POT) gathered outside of the EHRC on May 22 to leave 90 liters of human urine around the perimeter of the building. The protest was in response to a recent statement by chief executive of the EHRC, Melanie Field, in which she affirmed the definition of “sex.”

The statements by Field were made during an interview with Transactual, a trans activist organization headed by trans-identified male Helen Belcher. Belcher pressed Field on the definition of “biological sex,” to which Field responded it was the “sex recorded at birth.”

Field’s comment reflects a slow-moving trend at the EHRC to implement stronger protections for biological sex as a protected characteristic, as well as recent plans to prevent trans-identified males from accessing women’s facilities unless they have a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

GRCs are documents which legally recognize a person’s transgender identity in the United Kingdom. The bar for acquiring one is not particularly high, having two primary requirements of a gender dysphoria diagnosis, and the individual having “lived” as their “preferred gender” for at 2 years. The fee is nominal at £5, but it can be waived entirely for low-income people.

The proposals have been met with extreme backlash by trans activists, who have branded the EHRC’s attempts to consider further protections for women as “anti-trans bias.”

This Monday, masked POT trans activists gathered outside of the EHRC office to leave bottles of human urine in protest of the considerations. The activists also poured the bottles of piss on the sidewalks.

POT posted an artistic video of the demonstration to their Instagram, featuring close-up shots of the bottles of urine with audio and transcription of Field’s interview with Transactual superimposed over the scenes.

“We placed 90 liters of trans piss outside the building and in their revolving doors, rendering the EHRC more explicitly what it already was: an inaccessible mess,” Pot wrote in the description of the video.

“Pouring piss is an anarchist act of resistance that stakes an urgent and lingering claim on our basic human rights … If you take away our toilets we will make one on your doorstep.”

This is not the first time POT has staged a piss-filled protest outside of the EHRC in London.

In September of 2022, POT activists similarly left jugs of human urine around the office’s doorstep, with one masked activist pouring one bottle on himself. 

While the initial exclusive coverage by VICE did not publish the names of the activists involved, allowing them to remain anonymous, it was later revealed that the primary organizer for POT is an artist who has contributed to VICE in the past. 

Jamie Cottle is a trans-identified male from Reading, England, who studied English at University College London. Cottle uses the moniker “Biogal” on social media. After staging his first protest outside of the EHRC last year, Cottle boasted about his actions on Instagram.

Cottle regularly hosts disturbing “performances” he claims are demonstrations of trans activism.

In one performance from 2022, simply titled “FISH,”Cottle strips while slapping himself with a dead fish. In another from that same year, titled “Prayer for the Pearl Oyster,” Cottle is seen wearing women’s underwear, transparent platform heels, and a pearl necklace. He rips fabric, tosses about oysters, and screams while stomping on the shells. Cottle then begins writhing, strips naked, and removes a sex toy from his anus.

In addition to providing words in a VICE article on “trans joy,” last year Cottle contributed to a piece published in the Italian edition of Vogue magazine. 

Titled “The Hairy Boundaries of My Womanhood,” the article asserts that “trans women and non-binary femmes” should find “new ways to express their genders through facial hair,” while drawing a parallel between “dyke movements and women with PCOS” to biological males who claim a female identity.

“When covering my moustache, I experience security from the notion of passing but deal with the dangers of catcalling,” Cottle told Vogue. “When I choose not to cover up, I signal to the world my radical position on gender and resistance to the male gaze.”

In a photo posted to his Instagram account in October 2020, Cottle can be seen licking a knife in a threatening fashion. Behind him were images of Member of Parliament Liz Truss, and a man who appears to resemble former First Secretary of State Dominic Raab. The image is titled “Target Practice.”

In a similarly menacing image, Cottle was photographed in a skin-tight dress holding a sign that reads, “The streets will flow with tranny piss and Tory blood.”

In an interview with Era Journal, the University College of London’s Arts and Culture publication, Cottle acknowledges his admiration for a US-based trans-identified male called Río Sofia, who has made bondage and forced feminization pornography of himself as part of his academic studies at Cooper Union College. In 2020, Sofia presented his self-made pornography during a lecture for Princeton University.

One of Cottle’s performances appears to have been influenced by Sofia, who, during his presentation for Princeton, boasted of stripping down to nothing but “lucite-looking heels” and exposing himself to the then-president of Cooper Union, in an attempt to spark provocation.

Cottle also recently assisted with a fundraiser for his girlfriend’s double mastectomy. Jasmine, 22, a female who identifies as a man, stated on her GoFundMe page that she was “on the GenderCare pathway” due to being “exhausted [with] having to endure my body being sexualized in a way that feels so foreign to me.”

In 2021, Cottle was a member of the Queer Heritage and Collections Network Steering Group and a listed speaker at their taxpayer-funded symposium. The symposium featured prominent UK artists sharing “knowledge, skills, expertise and best practice regarding national and regional heritage sites and collections working with LGBTQ+ histories,” and was held in partnership with the national Art Fund.

Cottle was presented as being associated with English Heritage, a major charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places in the United Kingdom.

While Cottle has put his Instagram on private, his biography does claim he will be appearing at the Tate Britain, a historic art gallery in central London, on June 10.

So he’s appearing at the Tate during pride month. I’m sure that it’s just a coincidence that the Tate just announced that they were going to refer to to a woman artist who has been dead for decades as a transman.

May ‘they’ rest in peace: Tate gallery changes the pronouns of celebrated British artist who died 60 YEARS AGO to become gender-neutral and asks if the sculptor would identify as trans if alive today

Sculptor Marlow Moss was a pioneer in European abstract art who died in 1958 

Works by the artist now feature a sign referring to their gender-neutral pronouns

#UK #London #Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) #Pissed Off Trannies #Melanie Field spoke the truth #Transactual #Helen Belcher is a man #Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) #Jamie Cottle is a man #Protesting with Urine #Did anyone stop to think about the other people that would walk by that have nothing to do with the EHRC?

[memecucker]

The City of Boston has announced this week that it will no longer request citizens to register their sex or gender identity on their marriage licences in the hopes of offering more ‘dignified experiences for all.’

From now on, couples applying for a marriage certificate in the city will not be asked by city employees to disclose the details of their gender.

This update is the latest of the city’s new gender-aware guidelines to improve their recognition of queer residents and build a city that’s ‘truly inclusive’.

[bibliophile-bi]

Omw to Scotland to legally change my gender

#i wish #honestly fuck the equalities minister she wants to make it so scottish gender recognition certificates arent recognised in England #how is she in charge of equality????? #ik scotland isnt perfect but its honestly so much better than england for trans people rn #hate it here #bibliophile-bi