The Liberal Democrats have marked Transgender Day of Remembrance, saying on social media:
Today on Trans Day of Remembrance we remember those who have lost their lives to transphobic violence, and reflect on how we as a society can end this loss of life. Liberal Democrats will always stand up for the rights of everyone in the LGBT+ community.
Sadly, there has been another rise in the number of trans people who have been killed because of who they are. We’re getting on for 1 person a day – 350, mostly trans women of colour.
From Pink News:
The number is one of the highest death tolls since the monitoring project began in 2008, which could be caused by the “concerted efforts of anti-gender and anti-rights movements that instrumentalise and vilify trans people”, according to TGEU.
“We have seen a consistent rise in the levels of online and offline hate speech and hate crimes, especially from political actors and religious and faith leaders, public figures,” a spokesperson for the group said.
“This rise is enabled by the lack of strong hate-crime legislation that protects gender identity and expression, and the manipulative disinformation resulting from the lack of accountability for social media companies on ensuring information integrity.”
LGBT+ Lib Dems said:
This is why we will never stop striving for a society where everyone is embraced, loved, and celebrated for who they are — free from fear of prejudice or hate.
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In a gesture of non-solidarity, Republican Nancy Mace has introduced a bill to stop the first trans member of congress from using gender appropriate toilets.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/19/sarah-mcbride-congress-bathroom-bill-transgender
They seem to be relying on something they call “biological sex” which they probably can’t define as anything other than “gender assigned at birth”
@Jenny Barnes: These ignorant creationist bigots really hate cases like these.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7200380/
True hermaphrodite who’d fathered children but also had an ovary with evidence of ovulation. Biologically male and female?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17389808/
Teenage boy with a Y chromosome, SRY gene, male body parts and one functioning ovary (which had ovulated). Since he was infertile as a male, they’d have to define him as “biologically female”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2190741/
XY woman who spontaneously conceived and had a daughter, who was also XY, which is how she discovered she was XY herself. No signs of any malfunctioning Y genes (including SRY) so genetically male. Except she wasn’t. She had a minority of 45X cells, but this is actually rather common in “biological males”