@failedLyndonLaRouchite I mean, I wanted to discuss colonialism as the frame for anti-trans material. The essay form is not a news bulletin. I may have a theme, but I don’t have an abstract or a lede you can skip to.

I’m not a newspaper or an academic paper.

I am, in the end, writing to express myself in the hope (but never the expectation) that other people will enjoy reading it.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite I love all my words equally. I regret my essay style is more discursive than you are used to, but I invite you to consider that, while it may not meet the Reuters style guide, or a tabloid newspaper’s pyramidal information format, it is not intended to. It is a reflection of what I want to say, largely how I would like to say it.

May it be both not what you find useful or interesting and also, still, arguably written to reflect its author’s wishes and opinions?

A controller following this new code of bad practice by processing personal data of a trans person, by assigning or challenging their use of a toilet in line with their “gender identity at the time” would breach this law.

It is somehow fitting that the UK government would jeopardise their whole economy - because that is how significant the EU’s adequacy agreement is to them- because it really really wanted to mistreat trans people.

The U.K. can have EU personal data passed to it frictionlessly because the European Commission determined that it offered a legal framework for data protection which offered equal protections to that of the EU.

EU law includes the corpus of legal decisions from the CJEU, such as the VP case;

“it is for the controller, … to take into consideration that person’s gender identity at the time of their registration in the asylum register, and not the gender identity assigned to them at birth.”

Exploring new depths to the word Misnomer, the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission has issued a loathsome set of rules targeting trans people.

In response, a reminder that in doing so the U.K. breaches EU data protection law & its own adequacy decision.

https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-trans-rights-are-data-rights/