*Inhales*

hi tumblr-the conservative party is back at it again. 

currently, the GRA (gender recognition act) says to transition “legally”, trans people have to: 

 get two diagnoses of gender dysphoria (including one from an NHS gender clinic, which have a 2-3 year wait time currently), 

prove you have lived as your chosen gender for 2 years, 

swear to live the remainder of your life as such

and  do all of this in front of a “gender recognition panel”, a process which is very humiliating and largely depends on people deciding if you are “trans enough”. 

in 2018, the idea was put on the table to progress the rights of transgender people in the UK. Including: 

 allowing them to self identify as their chosen gender (including 16 & 17 year olds, who have previously been denied the right to)

demedicalising the transition progress, no doctors would need to diagnose gender dysphoria to transition.

removing the cost to have your gender legally recognised

allow non-binary identities to be recognised

it has recently been leaked that the current government has scrapped these ideas [source  source]. Our equality minister, Liz Truss, is horribly transphobic and wishes to backpedal on the few rights we have. 

trans people have said for years that the GRA is outdated and in need of reform, and have had the tiny ray of hope that it may be changed ripped out from under us behind closed doors. 

petitions on the parliament website are legally obligated to be responded to at 10k signatures and have to be debated in parliament at 100k signatures. 

only british citizens can sign this, but if you are not from the uk, please boost it so your british followers can see! 

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/327108

me:

Obviously it's not entirely his fault; he was left to try to save the game with the bowlers after Finch and Labuschagne got out, followed swiftly by Marsh and Maxwell. But he's a batsman, and through a good chunk of that he was running singles and putting Zampa and Hazlewood - who are genuine tailenders - back on strike. When he finally hit a boundary it was on the last ball of the over. At one point they ran 2 which would have left Carey on strike, England fumbled a bit in the field and he ran again and took himself off strike.

Zampa and Hazlewood both did a better job at putting him on strike than he was doing at keeping it - Zampa actually hit a pretty nice straight drive at one point to get a single despite clearly struggling with batting, and Hazlewood was really consistently and safely hitting singles.

I'm amazed he lasted as long as he did. That was possibly the weirdest part - normally when a batsman is panicking they get out quickly, but somehow he stuck around despite seemingly having forgotten how to play properly.