Petition: Say No to Dangerous Gender Identity Bill

Feb 21, 2017 by

from CitizenGo:

In December 2016, Maria Miller MP, Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, presented the Gender Identity (Protected Characteristic) Bill 2016-2017, which seeks

“to make gender identity a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 in place of gender reassignment and to make associated provision for transgender and other persons; and for connected purposes.”

The change was needed, we are told, because “current wording is outdated and confusing”. So it seems that the solution is to update the terms so that they are significantly more confusing.

Previously, the protected characteristic was “gender reassignment” which referred to someone having undergone some kind of physical change to “become” the opposite sex. The proposed change to “gender identity”, although minor on the face of it, is a profound and far reaching change.

According to the ideology being advanced here, “gender identity” is one’s subjective perception of their own gender as distinct from their objective sex.

Given the inherently subjective nature of “gender identity”, having it as a “protected characteristic is a very dangerous thing. This is primarily because determining someone’s “gender identity” at least as far as the law is concerned, seems to rely exclusively on their word. So when a man self identifies as a woman, it is his word that he is really a “she” that is the determining factor.

We should be concerned about this law for several reasons:

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