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Disabled, transsexual socialist. Category 4 robodebt victim. Living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land, so-called Australia.

I have now become aware that on 6 February this year the New South Wales Government amended the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Regulation 2014 to allow themselves to V-code trans women Here is the amending statutory instrument: legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/pdf/asm...

[1] Clause 3A:

Insert after Clause 3—

3A References to male and female inmates

(1) For the Act, section 79(1)(a)–(C1), the following factors may be considered in deciding whether an inmate is a male or female inmate for the purposes of this regulation—
(a) the risk to the safety of the inmate or others as a result of the decision,
(b) the effect of the decision on the requirements to maintain security and good order under this regulation and the Act,
(c) other factors the decision-makers considers relevant.

(2) It is not necessary that the decision is consistent with one or more of the following—
(a) the sex of the inmate recorded in a birth certificate or other identity document of the inmate,
(b) the gender identity of the inmate expressed by the inmate,
(c) the external physical sex characteristics of the inmate.

(3) In this clause—
'decide' includes classify.
Caroline Layt@carolinelayt11.bsky.social · 9h ago

transjustice.org.au/prison/ Just signed. Despite having my Gender Confirmation Surgery in 1998 & having a female birth certificate I could be potentially sent to a male prison. How did Minns get this passed in Parliament? He’s a Labor Premier & should stand up for us. @kirstimiller30.bsky.social

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

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i was about to post something questionable about the antisemitism royal commission, which i politically disagree with, but then a lady walked by who sounded aggressively british and saved me

AIPAC and a bunch of corporations spent tens of millions lying and inviting people to marinate in Islamophobia and related bigotries and they said he is an anti-Semite, what more do they have to do?! 'Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary' www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left

The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.

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It was always strange to call the genocide in Gaza a war, but it's even more bizarre when there is a ceasefire and Israel has killed 1200 Palestinians since then. Even if the Guardian doesn't want to use the term genocide "war" doesn't capture one sided slaughter of civilians

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Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects...

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