I'd like to thank the UK Supreme Court for refusing my appeal. They claim I haven't raised an arguable point of law, despite the text of the law already recognizing me as nonbinary. 🤷
This means I can now appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which my lawyers are already working on.
@ryanc Fingers figuratively crossed that you can get it the ECtHR ASAP, before any of the current lot (or potential future ones) can force the UK out of the jurisdiction of the ECHR 🥺
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@ryanc @janl yeah, they already showed their hand in April, and especially being *that case* it seems hilariously improbable they'd suddenly reverse themselves so sadly there was no particular reason to expect that to have amounted to more than an expensive show trial.
Now we can get on with the actually useful stuff.
@ryanc @janl It's certainly kinda funny how if several countries didn't keep being so aggressively problematic we wouldn't have half the rights we do.
Just in the last year or so we've seen ‘moderate’ laws around gender recognition effectively overturned as a side-effect of rulings against hard-line laws in Hungary/Czechia, laws that probably would have stayed in place indefinitely if others hadn't ‘gone too far’.
@ryanc @janl it's certainly plausible that enbies-everywhere is an outcome, though I suspect more likely is ‘just’ a stepping stone in that direction.
Though arguably other rulings already mean all EU members have to recognise enbies, so maybe Europe-wide wouldn't even be that big a leap for them. 🤷♀️
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