the Cheshire west ‘acid test’ nailed it: if it walks like a deprivation of liberty, quacks like a deprivation of liberty, it’s a deprivation of liberty - and that safeguard is more vital not less when someone lacks capacity to meaningfully resist.
Truly feel like I want to be sick
I also know some people think the mind, mencap, NAS etc statement is a bit overcooked but it isn’t. Not wholly dissimilarly to the EHRC guidance ‘how / when to challenge’ stuff: encouraging complex multi factorial legal maths to make safety crucial decisions is a recipe for disaster on the ground
BoE bank notes predictions:
1. Transphobe group will sue Bank of England because the optional demographic questions only ask for "gender" and not "sex" and include non binary as an option.
2. Barn Owl will win, we get a newspaper column declaring this shows the end of woke.
i normally post about lgbt+ rights fuckery but as an erstwhile health policy wonk this made me physically sick yesterday
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having met the british public: nah
i know how much horrible shit happened prior to Cheshire west, especially in learning disability care, and this is going to go down in history alongside FWS as the Reed court’s legacy in requiring legislation to fix their messes and stacking the queue for Strasbourg
Lots of discussion of this piece, it’s mediocre and circular so I struggle to care about the holdouts when there was actually good pro trans writing the other day, BUT
It’s also inaccurate in how selective it is with the facts
Do feel free to tell them
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