In equality training, civil officials are instructed that defining a “woman” is impossible.
According to the New York Times, the video given by A:gender also claims that the term “adult human female” can be transphobic.
In the video, the leader of the trans support network’s seminar for civil officials also argues that “transphobia is increasingly portrayed as feminism,” which might be interpreted as a veiled critique of Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
Some government servants are concerned that the voluntary training will violate the civil service code’s impartiality principles and may even violate the Equality Act.
‘I assumed it was propaganda,’ one student told the New York Times. It’s the promotion of a single point of view on gender and gender identity that isn’t backed up by law or common sense.
‘What horrified me so much is that for anyone at the heart of the civil service interested in supporting transgender people, this is the education they are getting. Civil servants are then implementing legislation and government directives.
‘They sign up for these courses and get told what to think.’
The presenter, who identified as intersex, stated that gender identification has a “biological component” and utilized the disputed genderbread person to demonstrate their point.
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