As an American Transwoman I'm worried America is looking at the UK and taking notes.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
100 points (99.0% liked)
UK Politics
3641 readers
155 users here now
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The UK keeps circling the same drain the US fell through
God, I'm tired
jk rowling funding a lawsuit to make it legal for the police to sexually assault women - including cis women - is yet another reason why she's a terrible human
It absolutely bewilders me.
If I had anything approaching her levels of wealth, I'd be on a beach sipping cocktails, going rock climbing, getting railed by goth girls, or trying all kinds of new hobbies that the normal person wouldn't have the time or resources to try.
She spends her time doing this, and sitting on twitter trying to get retweets from people with swastikas in their profile pictures.
Time is the one thing that's finite for her, and she's choosing to spend it on this bullshit. I can't wrap my head around it.
You don't see Enya pulling this shit.
The BTP jumped on this almost instantly as they'd been under fire because trans women on the force could strip search those AFAB.
I'm waiting for next shoe to drop when someone AFAB complains because they get strip searched by a big hairy bloke because he was also AFAB. At no point does anyone seem to have considered the effect this law will have on trans men now having to go into women-only spaces. I don't think JK Rowling cares about the messy fallout from her War on Trans Women.
What continues to amaze me is the animosity towards trans people by the TERFs. They're like religious zealots. It's depressing to see such spite empowered by law.
load more comments
(24 replies)
But hey, trans people have totally not lost any protections because of this ruling. The Supreme Court can only interpret the law, which is, as we know, an apolitical, amorphic force of nature and not a deeply political process informed just as much by a person's perspective and bigotries as any other.
load more comments
(5 replies)
So now, if you're a woman and some pervert cop takes a fancy to you all he has to do is say "I reckoned she looked trans so I did the search myself" and he can touch you up as much as he feels he can get away with
Even better, he can demand her to strip naked for him. Purely theoretical of course, the bobbies would never abuse their power.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
The damage these people are doing is unimaginable.
view more: next ›