Labour drops pledge to introduce self-ID for trans people
The party says it will keep a requirement for a medical diagnosis to change legal sex if it wins power.
I am so glad I live in a safe Labour seat so I can feel comfortable not voting for them next GE. Because they feel just like a version of the Tories from my voting lifetime (and I'm not super old) right now.
well said.
I am so sad that I will have to vote for them, but I have no other option
I don't know how unpopular an opinion it is, but surely anyone just deciding to self ID as a different gender opens huge safeguarding concerns?
I'm all for the process being easy for them to work through, but literally just doing it yourself seems excessively easy and abusable.
Would you be able to give any examples? I can't really think of much that would crumble under a self-ID system, and I would suspect there's some restrictions on things like how often you can change, so you don't have people changing for things like government bonuses or whatever might exist.
A lot of other things like "women's shelters" or "men's clubs" tend to be based more on society's view on you as a man/woman rather than any sort of legal check.
