leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

The UK has removed every state, territory and country that allows transgender people to correct their legal gender on a "self-id" basis from the list that they offer streamlined gender recognition to.

25 US states (+DC), 4 Australian territories, and 25 entire countries have been cut.

Nobody has even been accused of abusing the process. The changes were spearheaded by Kemi Badenoch for the sole purpose of hurting transgender people.

I appear to have been specifically targeted. In April of 2022, I was the first person to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) as nonbinary in the UK. Though my application for was granted, my GRC was never issued. I filed a lawsuit on 15 November 2022.

Kemi Badenoch was made a defendant in her capacity as the Minister for Women and Equalities. She put out a statement on 6 January 2023 that she was going to update the list.

On 4 December 2023, details were leaked to The Daily Mail. They ran an article giving my state of birth, California, as a prominent example of places on the chopping block.

Legislation was introduced two days later, which even included a comment that in no circumstance would anyone be able to apply as nonbinary based on foreign recognition.

Of course, this is all circumstantial. 😠

Folks living in the UK who qualify under the old list have about two weeks to apply for a GRC before the change takes effect.

The UK's standard process is so burdensome that less than 5% of transgender individuals in the UK have been able to obtain a GRC.

These overly strict rules do not make anyone safer.

I have written up some more details here:

https://rya.nc/activism/uk-slashes-foreign-gender-recognition.html

(I keep forgetting hashtags)

#trans #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #uk

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The Mirror aims to be a Roblox & UEFN alternative and now it's open source https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/the-mirror-aims-to-be-a-roblox-uefn-alternative-and-now-its-open-source/

#TheMirror #Roblox #UEFN #OpenSource #Linux

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I am currently looking for a few new more contemporary SciFi novels. The caveat however is that I don't want the things that are currently trending.

So no Isekai. No LitRPG. No cultivation stories. No Hard Men making Hard Decisions while Hard. No grimdark disguised as'realism'. No 'everyone is always horrible to everyone else'. No Dark Forrest...

I want stories where things are optimistic and are getting better. I am okay with gray scales...

If you want Live Captions on Linux, check out https://github.com/abb128/LiveCapt – you can also find it on Flathub and it works splendidly and, unlike the Windows version, it automatically saves a transcript. This is perfect for making your live streams and videos more accessible. And it’s free and open source.

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