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6 April 2023
UK: towards a legal distinction between 'born women' and trans people
The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak takes a decisive step backwards on so-called 'trans rights' in the skin of women. And instructs the Minister for Equal Opportunities to prepare a change in the legal definition of sex by distinguishing it from 'perceived' sex. Even when the 'gender change' certificate has been obtained
British Minister for Women and Equal Opportunities Kemi Badenoch Rishi Sunak wants to create a legal distinction between women by birth and men who 'become female' on documents after obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). The new British prime minister has given a swerve to solve the problems caused by perceived legal gender recognition that does not match the reality of bodies: it was a few days ago the news about the independent enquiry [...]
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28 July 2022
Argentina: stop neutral language in schools
E' was the first country to introduce gender self-identification. Ten years later it is among the first to ban neutral language in schools as it is 'not even that inclusive: it creates a barrier for children with learning difficulties'
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 [...]
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6 July 2022
Maya Forstater, fired for saying sex cannot be changed, wins in court: it was discrimination
Decisive for gender critical feminism around the world was the victory of Maya, a researcher who lost her job over a tweet in which she wrote that biological sex is immutable and that women have rights based on sex. Britain reaffirms the right to criticise gender identity: threats and accusations of transphobia are illegitimate. "A'further proof" says Forstater "that the wind is changing". The final ruling of the labour court also ordered the company that did not renew the contract of the researcher, co-founder of Sex Matters, to pay compensation. A triumph across the board
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 [...]
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22 April 2022
The Zan bill returns to the Senate. Just as it was. And we are ready to fight again. Just like that
Irreducibles, Zan and the PD are back in charge. With the exact same text that has already fallen in the Senate. The real goal is gender identity and education in schools. And while most of the West - from Great Britain to Sweden, Finland, Australia and Florida - is backing down on self-id after having ascertained the damage it does to women, girls and children, Italy intends to import this out-of-date product.
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 [...]
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5 March 2022
Free choice of sex: Scotland tries it this time
The law introduces a "super self-id" that allows any man, for whatever reason, to change his birth certificate, even without any medical act, in order to be able to say that he is a woman from birth and hide his biological male sex from everyone. Revealing it will be a crime
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 [...].
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19 February 2022
Trans-athlete Petrillo wins it all. And - of course - thinks about politics
Fabrizio-Valentina Petrillo continues to rout opponents. Her last podium finish was at the 200m indoor masters championships in Ancona. She says that sport divided by gender is violence. And she proclaims her motto-manifesto: "Everyone must have the opportunity to determine for themselves who they are". Starting with gender
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 [...]
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4 November 2021
Out the door, gender identity is already back in the window
Gender identity is back in the Senate, included in a PD-IV amendment to the Infrastructure bill. Rejected in the Zan bill, the concept reappears in other laws, bills and regulations. A real encirclement that preludes to new imminent attempts to introduce self-certification or self-id. *Ultim'now: the Infrastructures bill would already be law, approved just this morning
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 [...]
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13 May 2021
German parliament debates gender identity law on 19 May: lobbyists on the attack everywhere
Supported by Die Grünen (Greens), FDP and Die Linke (Socialist Party), the bill introducing gender self-certification has arrived in the Bundestag. For the first time, public funding is denied to the Lesbian Spring Festival, a historic meeting since 1974
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, [...]
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6 May 2021
Zan bill: Italy's vast majority says no to gender identity
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. [...]
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18 April 2021
Zan bill: gender identity can cost women victims of violence a lot of money
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 [...]
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8 April 2021
California: 261 inmates who 'identify' as women request transfer to women's prisons
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 [...]
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26 March 2021
Self-ID and the prison system: men in women's prisons. A report from Canada
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 [...]
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