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I was looking at the draft Equality Act guidelines posted here earlier and a sick part of me wonders why they haven't just gone the whole way and took us out. Being trans is still a "protected characteristic" which means nothing when we can't even have the dignity of pissing where we want to piss, and it's even worse because people use it as a gotcha when you bring up how shit things are.

A GRC seems useless now if I'm understanding the legislation correctly. It's basically just a very expensive certificate that people don't even have to obey if they feel like it.

> "‘This means that, in relation to the Act, a person's sex remains their biological sex, whether they have a GRC or not. For example, a trans man with a GRC is a woman and a trans woman with a GRC is a man, for the purposes of the Act.’"

You can read some of the more important bits in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/s/OaHe52RRDv but yeah this draft legislation is shit for every trans person.

Like sometimes I'll just be talking to a cis or trans person and they'll say something that makes me think "ohh you just see it as a really extreme version of being butch/a tomboy."

I do sort of wonder why that is. Maybe because girls being GNC is more accepted in western society so there isn't that mental thing of "this is out of the ordinary and clearly for a reason".

Asking for a friend.

I'm 25 and was born in 2000. It seems like I was born at just the right time to hit adulthood during an incredibly shit period. Western liberalism collapsed between 2000-2016 (depending on who you ask). The phrase "no future" springs to mind; I am not planning for ten years down the line because I don't know if I will be here in ten years. Everything is expensive but poor quality, there are little to no jobs and the university pipeline appears to be useless, climate change is accelerating beyond our comprehension, civil rights and liberties we took for granted are being eroded worldwide etc.

But also this seems to be the most technologically advanced period in human history. We can stick a camera up someone's butt to check for cancer. There's a vaccine and antibiotic for just about any illness. I'm typing this on a mid-level phone with more memory and storage than a desktop computer had in 1989. I think this is also the most socially aware period in human history, as weird as that sounds; for good or for ill people are tapped in to politics and inequality on a level we haven't seen outside of pre-revolutionary countries.

Is it true that the liberal period of probably 1960-2016 was actually a blip, and the world has always been this way?

I remember on the board chasers would always specifically seek out boymoders because:

- boymoders were assumed to be basically HRT femboys

- boymoders are "okay" with being called boys, so there's no need to be respectful instead of a giant piece of shit

- boymoders are typically insecure and naive, so therefore are "easy targets"

It makes me so mad and sad. Boymoding is a legitimate safety tactic that's been memed into "le sexy trap blahaj femboy gf" sneed slop. Chasers (and lbr some trannies) expect a boymoder to look entirely like a conventionally hot girl in a hoodie who is simply ok with being called a boy. They want a porn archetype, basically.

I can probably tie this to the Gio Scotti canon event but that's for another post.