Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on January 20, 2020, 1:21 pm, in reply to "Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists..."
The closing paragraphs are especially revealing about establishment priorities: 'Women and Land Finally it's worth remembering that land politics is an area in which inequality between men and women is extremely prevalent. Worldwide, women do the bulk of land-based work, but own less than 20 percent of privately-owned land – and as the world's remaining commons pass into private ownership, the hands they pass into are disproportionately male. In many countries laws and customs on inheritance of land still discriminate against women. Such discrimination can often be a matter of life and death, and affects many of the world's most disadvantaged people. But a version of it operates even within the British aristocracy, which as we now know still owns over a third of England. Aristocratic titles and land estates traditionally follow the rule of primogeniture and pass from father to oldest son, preserving the power and prestige of dominant males. Helen Steel points out that although the principle of the Gender Recognition Act is that a person with a GRC legally becomes their aquired gender 'for all purposes', a specific exclusion was inserted to prevent older female offspring who obtain a GRC (making them legally male) from inheriting an aristocratic title and estate ahead of a younger brother. An Explanatory Note makes clear that "The descent of any peerage or dignity or title of honour will take place as if a person recognised in the acquired gender were still of the birth gender. The same rule applies to any property that passes with it." This curious exclusion, says Steel, shows once more how current changes in the legal framework around sex and gender tend at every turn to preserve and extend male privilege while eroding women's rights. Women all over the world are discriminated against not because of their gender identity, but because of their sex. Excluding those who recognise this makes it less likely that this important dimension of global (and local) land politics will be properly considered.' In other words, we can feel free to rage and rend our garments over legal definitions, as long as nothing meaningfully challenges actual inherited class and/or gender privilege or the hugely unjust concentration of wealth and power in this country. I
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- Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Ian M January 20, 2020, 1:14 pm
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Ian M January 20, 2020, 1:21 pm
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Tomski January 20, 2020, 3:44 pm
- They need to use the right arguments.. - Gerard January 20, 2020, 3:46 pm
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Sinister Burt January 20, 2020, 3:50 pm
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Sinister Burt January 20, 2020, 3:57 pm
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Gerard January 20, 2020, 4:18 pm
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Sinister Burt January 20, 2020, 4:44 pm
- Way back, I had two tranny friends. Both bio-males, both psychological females. (This was before the - Rhisiart Gwilym January 20, 2020, 4:46 pm
- Re: Way back, I had two tranny friends. Both bio-males, both psychological females. (This was before the - Ian M January 20, 2020, 7:03 pm
- Interesting counter-hypothesis from Tom Campbell - - Rhisiart Gwilym January 20, 2020, 9:02 pm
- Re: Way back, I had two tranny friends. Both bio-males, both psychological females. (This was before the - johnlilburne January 21, 2020, 2:18 am
- Yes - Keith-264 January 21, 2020, 3:47 am
- Re: Yes - Sinister Burt January 21, 2020, 7:51 am
- Re: Yes - Sinister Burt January 21, 2020, 7:57 am
- Re: Way back, I had two tranny friends. Both bio-males, both psychological females. (This was before the - Jamie January 21, 2020, 8:54 am
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Ian M January 20, 2020, 6:57 pm
- Re: Transgender issues ripping apart UK environmentalists, anarchists, land rights activists... - Jamie January 20, 2020, 4:34 pm
- See A. Vitchek article above - its excellent :) nm - MikeD January 20, 2020, 5:00 pm
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