god I’m so fucking angry at the state of uk politics . Obviously we all know about the bullshit Supreme Court ruling around transgender people being excluded from public life, directly violating the equality act being legally classed as their birth sex, but they also just overturned protections for intellectually disabled people and people in severe mental health crises.
Previously, if someone was deemed not mentally capable of deciding their own care, there was a lot of oversight to ensure they were being treated ok. The Supreme Court just got rid of that. Unless someone actively protests their treatment, they’re presumed to be consenting to it (even if they are regularly physically restrained or chemically sedated). For deprivation of liberty to exist, the conditions must be literally as bad as a prison cell, and (according to Mind) it’s implied in the ruling that it’s because people with profound intellectual disabilities do not have capacity to experience liberty (or deprivation thereof). Genuinely sickening.
