In 2012, Argentina was the first country in the world to introduce self-id or gender self-identification into its legal system. Ten years later, it is one of the first countries to ban neutral language in schools. As taught by the mothers of radical feminism and difference thinking, the neutral is a red herring that actually brings the male point of view back to the centre. If the illusion of the neutral is less noticeable in the English language, it is immediately [...]

A year ago, June 2021, Feminist Post published an article on the case of Maya Forstater, the British researcher whose employment contract was not renewed by her employer for expressing critical views on the concept of gender identity and reaffirming the importance of women's gender-based rights. The article ended by reminding readers that Maya's case was not yet over and, although the appeal ruling of the [...]

War or no war, Covid or no Covid, next week in the Senate - presumably Wednesday 27th - the PD will re-submit the Zan bill. As it stands. No objections have been considered, let alone discussed. Gender identity - the thing they care most about, the real lintel of the law - remains at the centre, with training in schools and all the rest. The western world is backing away after seeing the damage caused by gender self-identification and self-id, a [...]

The Scottish Parliament started the debate on the reform of the Gender Recognition Act, a law that allows people with a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria to obtain a "certificate of recognition of gender identity" (GRC). The reform, tabled by MP Shona Robison (Scottish National Party), calls for a "de-pathologisation" of the GRC, i.e. it would introduce gender self-determination (Self ID), allowing those who do not suffer from any dysphoria but identify as transgender to change their sex on their birth certificate [...].

Between the Olympics and the DDL Zan last year, sports publications devoted a lot of space to 'inclusive sport' and to Valentina born Fabrizio Petrillo, presented as the 'first transgender athlete to wear the Italian national team jersey in an international competition'. Petrillo, who competes both in Paralympic competitions for the visually impaired and in the masters championships for female athletes over 35 (here is the entry of the athletes beaten by her male body), hoped until the very end to participate in the female category at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The qualification [...]

The Zan bill has stumbled mainly - but not only - on gender identity, the first step towards free self-certification of gender or self-identity. But once out the door, gender identity is trying to get back in through the window. Or rather, through the many windows of laws, local laws, regulations and codes that will use the concept anyway. An 'encirclement' that could allow a new attempt to pass the formula at the level of national legislation. After all, the battle for gender self-certification is in [...]

In Germany, from 1980 to 2011, the law on transsexuals or 'TSG' underwent several changes. Currently, the law is in line with similar laws in other European countries, where the "sex change" can only take place after two consultations with different doctors who are close to the issue of "feeling the opposite sex" or transsexuality, not necessarily psychologists. This is followed by the final step in court, which generally takes between eight weeks and six months and costs about €3,300. The medical treatment, [...]

The poll you see (crowfunded by feminist associations including Se Non Ora Quando, RadFem Italia, Libreria delle Donne, Udi and others) does not measure the general consensus on the Zan bill, but focuses on the real core of the bill: gender identity, the free perception of oneself regardless of one's birth sex -or, as we say today, attributed at birth-, totally dematerialised. The battle over gender identity has raged halfway around the world: Spain, Germany, and even Peru. [...]

The gender identity at the heart of the Zan bill, as we have said many times, introduces a principle of absolute vagueness into a criminal law. In simple terms: gender identity being something undefined, vague, phantasmal and perfectly equivocal, it does not allow citizens to precisely identify the object of the crime, does not guarantee the necessary clarity and does not therefore protect them from the risk of violating the law without knowing it. This is not permitted by our Constitution, which requires "taxability and [...]

This story from California tells the story of what gender identity is: 261 inmates who ask to be transferred to women's prisons - where, if you can call it that, life is a little less harsh than in men's prisons - claiming to 'identify' as women. Most of these inmates keep their male bodies intact and the only thing that is female is their "self-perception", real or presumed. There is great alarm among women prisoners for obvious reasons. In Canada, as we have [...]

An Irish newspaper, TheJournal.ie, reports today of a woman arrested in Dublin for possession of violent child pornography. Only at the end of the article does it say, almost incidentally, that it is a man identifying himself as a woman. In countries that allow self-id - self-certification of gender - if a prisoner claims to be a woman he can be transferred to a women's prison. This entails very serious risks for the security and dignity of the women prisoners. This is what happens in [...]

As we have said many times, the real core of Zan's bill against homotransphobia is gender identity. The rest of the bill's contents count for much less. The legitimate request to protect the rights and dignity of homosexuals and transsexuals actually conveys the strong objective, namely gender identity in the direction of self-id, which is the free decision to choose one's gender regardless of birth sex and with a simple unilateral administrative act, at the registry office or at the notary. The [...]