#non-alignment

THE Tories are pushing ahead with their “race to the bottom" plans after the Chancellor confirmed there will be no alignment EU regulations after Brexit.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Sajid Javid told manufacturing leaders the Treasury would not lend support to manufacturers that favour EU rules as the sector has had three years to prepare for Britain's transition.

The SNP have warned that this spells “disaster” and will lead to a rolling back of several rights and protections...

...Javid confirmed in his interview that the UK will not be in the single market or customs union and will not be a “ruletaker”. This will be done by the end of the year. "We're ... talking about companies that have known since 2016 that we are leaving the EU,” said Javid.

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Because my heart breaks every time I see all those posts that support disabled/autistic/neurodiverse girls/women/women-aligned folk. Every time. Yes, I know girls and women-aligned folk are massively underdiagnosed and undersupported and need support/positivity because they deal with the intersectionality of their disability/ableism and misogyny. I won’t argue that for a second. It’s a problem, though, when non-aligned non-binary folk very often share those same specific experiences and seldom get positivity posts that don’t align them to a binary gender.

(Because general/non-gendered positivity posts often don’t address the things I experience specifically because of the gender people perceive me as.)

I’m being told, basically, that despite enduring misogyny - as distinct from transmisogyny - just as much as a woman-aligned NB person or a woman, I need to align myself in order to be included in posts that actually are about my problems and issues. I’m perceived, erroneously, as a woman, but there’s nothing there for folk who deal with the intersectionality of disability/ableism and misogyny and alienation from binary genders.

There’s this very real feeling that I need to be binary-aligned to be remembered, included, supported and even possess things like the stories and memes and culture binary-aligned folk take for granted. There’s this very real feeling that I’m being repeatedly forced into aligning just to exist, even though I’ve got the shitty bundle deal of enduring all the difficulty of one gender without feeling any alignment to it at all. That enduring misogyny, by default, must make me woman-aligned even though I feel no connection to either binary gender.

Talk about supporting girls and women and women-aligned folk, especially as regards their experiences with misogyny and disability/ableism.