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Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.

The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.

This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.

If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.

We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.

As you were.

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HighlandLawyer

@LMac1970 In Scotland age of legal capacity is 16. There are special provisions for Young Adults up to 18 to apply to court to prevent them being screwed over in contracts due to their age, and there are still the other "age restricted" items, but they can vote (in non-Westminster election) & generally are legally adult. There doesn't seem to be any problems with it.
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Indyzign 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

my daughter is trans. She knew from about the age of 14 that she was trans. When we looked in to what she could expect through the NHS, we knew she’d be well in to her 20s by the time anything happened. #notgoodenough

On a side note, we have found that the whole of friends/family/friends of friends have been super supportive with very little negativity. Even in the heart of the Welsh valleys 🙂

Some idiots threatened violence because “trans” but … they learned

#notgoodenough
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GeofCox

@JamieR

One of my daughters is trans too, currently transitioning. She is a British citizen but we live in France - as you can imagine, the legal transition has been complicated! - but I have to say the French health service has been great (as it is in every respect, as far as I know).

We too have found family and friends supportive. My wife was very worried about telling her mother - elderly and very conservative - but her positive reaction surprised everybody. One of the first things she said was that she had some understanding because there had been a trans character in one of the UK soaps she watches - which shows positive media portrayals really do help people.

@goatsarah

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Indyzign 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@GeofCox my father-in-law (I’m a widower now) is in his eighties and deeply religious, I expected some sort of ‘issue’ but he’s been very accepting too. I realise that not everyone is this lucky, and that there is still a lot of prejudice in the world, but so far, we’ve found very little resistance. Thankfully
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EVHaste

@Shadedlady The OP is referencing the Greek myth of Cassandra, who was cursed by Apollo to have visions of the future which no one would ever believe when told. She can only endlessly warn people of disasters they will never take seriously.

OP is likening this to the trans experience; we’re often the canary in the coal mine for fascist legislation, and yet dismissed as hysterical until that same fascist movement comes for them.

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Crocket

not a area I know a lot about, but are they increasing the age or recognising in law for the first time. If the latter then it is progress, even though it is not a great start but it gives a point to reform from and bring it to a more acceptable level. Patience is required for change otherwise you scare the establishment. Look at the changes to the laws and the acceptance of homosexuality since the 60’s.
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@Crocket no. It’s rolling back stuff we already had. This has been happening for 20 years, since the ECHR stood up for us against the British government.

And what they do to us, they will do to the rest of you later.

@Crocket
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kæt

@crocket2001
I think it's easy to underestimate how far most people have moved on this already. (Not that *most* makes it safe). There seem to be two groups pushing this:

1. boring folk who moan about the metric system, car parks, youth of today, ULEZ, "they're all as bad as each other", immigrants, etc.

2. Westminster-y policy type people, both left and right, professional dinner-party attenders, columnists, writers, wonks, essayists, student union types.

The (dangerous) difference now is that these groups -- our society's loudest, most boring, dull, dim, and reactionary, who only differ in social class -- are united on one subject.

The public don''t need to "come round".

People think Guardianista idealists lay out liberation's groundwork -- surveyors going ahead. But they're just apologists hanging on the coat-tails of emperors, minting excuses for comfortable lives at court. The powerful, their "clients", are moving right, so they're representing them, coining theories and writing reports.

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Llwynog

I'm in my mid-30s now. I started HRT aged 19, had my mastectomy aged 20, hysterectomy aged 22 and phalloplasty aged 23. It was the best decision ever and I am sure I wouldn't be here if that hadn't been an option. There's no way I, aged 18 and suffering from crippling dysphoria, could have gone on another 7 years without medical care. The UK's plans to ban transition until age 25 makes me feel sick. It feels like an assault on my very existence.
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