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TERFs Shit Themselves Inside Out Thread: Nazi Death Eaters 2023
Scribbly:
This is where I'm really hoping Scotland can put the breaks on things.
It's a big embarrassment for them. One that every part of the media is trying to downplay, but it's still going to hurt them.
If it breaks up the UK I'll take that as a consolation prize, but it has been nice to end the year on a W.
Nibor the Priest:
--- Quote from: Scribbly on December 29, 2022, 05:02:14 pm ---This is where I'm really hoping Scotland can put the breaks on things.
It's a big embarrassment for them. One that every part of the media is trying to downplay, but it's still going to hurt them.
--- End quote ---
I hope so too, but even here in Scotland I'm seeing far more "SNP splinter over controversial gender bill" than "Scottish government passes trans rights bill" in the news. And the pro-independence Scottish government doesn't care much about sending a message to the rest of the UK, unless it's "We don't want the same things as you, so please let us go to do our own thing."
Last time we took a shot at independence, the UK government did try and show how nice they were by rushing through a same-sex marriage bill for England and Wales before ours (which had already passed, but hadn't been signed into law yet.) But they used the speed and cover to sneak a *spousal veto* for trans recognition in E&W in the same bill, so.
--- Quote ---If it breaks up the UK I'll take that as a consolation prize, but it has been nice to end the year on a W.
--- End quote ---
I don't know, but my feeling is that this is going to be used more the other way round: anti-independence groups pointing to trans rights as the sort of out-of-touch woke wacko stuff that the crazy nationalists are obsessing over When They Should Be Focusing On Kickstarting The Economy or whatever. (There's already a rightwing splinter pro-independence party, "Alba", who are almost certainly doing more harm than good for the cause of independence, and probably don't care because hurting trans people is more important to them anyway.)
--- Quote ---I DO think it is extremely funny that Sunak has already been hinting that he will invoke a never-tested procedural process to block the King giving assent to the law, triggering a constitutional crisis and likely hastening the breakup of the UK.
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I didn't know that, but I wouldn't put it past him at all. Certainly one of the prize categories in the Tory leadership contest, and in UK elections for that matter, is who can ignore Scotland the hardest.
--- Quote ---JK Rowling's good buddy flashed the viewing gallery with a merkin and shouted "If you won't be decent then I will be indecent" as she did it.
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Cain:
The Sunak thing is utterly insane and I can only imagine he's saying it with no intent to follow through because...I mean, imagine triggering a constitutional crisis to appease fucking TERFs.
Nibor the Priest:
I don't know that he'd do it *just* to appease terfs, but he'd do it to put Scotland in our place if he thought it'd succeed. We're already a constitutional crisis.
Scribbly:
Kicking off 2023 strong: https://transsafety.network/posts/equality-minister-foreign-gender-recognition/
TL;DR - The mad lad is actually going to cause a constitutional crisis AND ALSO piss off a bunch of other countries by calling them out for not being transphobic enough.
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