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[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

1) Mumsnet

2) The UK has a law called the Gender Recognition Act of 2004. Circa 2016, Teresa May when she was PM promised to reform it to institute gender/sex self-ID. The government instituted a public consultation - so interested women began to educate themselves and decided self ID had lots of problems and was at odds with women's rights.

3) The UK has another law called the Equality Act of 2010, which gives protections to persons who've gone through or propose to go through "gender transition." But the law also made sex a protected category, and allows for female-only spaces, services and sports.

4)UK health care is provided by the government through the NHS.

5) The UK has a system whereby ordinary citizens can challenge the actions of government agencies and bodies through "judicial reviews."

6) The UK has robust employment laws protecting employees, which allowed Maya Forstater to contest the termination of her contract.

7) The UK has some odd restrictions on speech and communications, which have been used by TRAs, the police and prosecutors to go after people like Marion Millar, Kate Scottow, Harry Miller, Miranda Yardley, Caroline Farrow and others for "gender critical" tweets and other social media posts. Scottow, who was breastfeeding when the police showed up at her house, was thrown in a jail cell and kept there for 7 hours, and denied the san pro she begged for.

8) The UK's major gay and lesbian rights organization, Stonewall, decided in 2015 to become a trans activist organization. Stonewall has had huge influence in the UK, signing up more than 750 major corporations and government bodies for a dodgy protection scheme: accept and abide by gender ideology or else! Stonewall's "training" sessions and bad legal advice have caused many in the UK to conclude that Stonewall's days are done.

9) The UK has a sophisticated system and philosophy of safeguarding

10) Karen White. Aimee Challenor. Jess Phillips. Rubber Man at the NSPC.

There are many other reasons too. Will try to post them later.