Do I Have to Leave the UK?

Summary

In a candid and heartfelt discussion, ICKY delves into the increasingly hostile environment facing transgender individuals in the UK. The video touches upon the amendment to the 2010 Equalities Act and its impact on trans rights, including the controversial stance of Barclays Bank on bathroom policies. With humor and authenticity, ICKY shares personal experiences and fears about the potential necessity to leave the UK if legal changes continue to exacerbate discrimination. The video is an emotional plea for support and a reminder of the ongoing struggle for trans rights worldwide.

Highlights

• New UK legal developments threaten to redefine the legal status of trans people, sparking fear and uncertainty. 😟
• Barclays Bank initiates a controversial policy, barring trans women from using female bathrooms. 🚫
• Trans individuals face anxiety over potential travel restrictions and document changes. 📜
• ICKY's humor underscores a serious message about the threat to trans rights and existence. 🎙️
• Cisgender allies are urged to speak out and support the trans community during these challenging times. 🙌

Key Takeaways

• ICKY reflects on the pressure to address serious issues affecting trans people despite a preference for light-hearted content. 🎭
• The UK Supreme Court's amendment to the Equalities Act is causing concern about trans rights. ⚖️
• There's a growing hostility towards trans individuals in various countries, whereas Norway stands out for its supportive policies. 🇳🇴
• Personal experiences with discriminatory policies reveal the real-world impact on trans lives. 💔
• The video calls for cis allies to stand up and support the trans community. ✊

Overview

ICKY kicks off the video with a playful tone, discussing hair dye and outfit choices, before diving into the serious issues at hand. She acknowledges the rapid changes in the legal landscape, particularly concerning transgender rights in the UK, which have become impossible to ignore despite her usual focus on lighter topics.

The discussion highlights recent legal amendments and corporate policies that complicate everyday life for transgender individuals. ICKY shares her personal struggles with potential legal document changes and bathroom policies, highlighting the absurdity and danger of these shifts. Her narrative is laced with humor, even while tackling these heavy topics, making it both engaging and poignant.

Concluding on a note of solidarity, ICKY calls for action from allies and reassures the community that, despite the challenges, unity and persistence can lead to change. Her plea is a mix of frustration and hope, inviting viewers to engage, support, and understand the stakes in the ongoing battle for trans rights.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction & Personal Update The chapter begins with the author announcing her return and humorously mentioning a change in her hair color. She discusses the temporary nature of her appearance for comedic effect. The narration shifts towards a satirical remark on trans people having 'too much fun' in bathrooms, hinting at socio-political issues. A significant topic arises as the author considers the possibility of having to leave the UK, acknowledging uncertainty in her decision and a shift in the circumstances that could affect her future actions. Although the author usually avoids heavy, activist topics in her discussions, she notes the changing landscape, suggesting a possible shift in her content focus.
• 00:30 - 02:30: Trans Rights and the Situation in the UK In this chapter, the speaker discusses the rapidly changing and increasingly hostile environment for transgender individuals in many countries, highlighting the exception of Norway, which has self-identification laws for transgender people. The speaker shares how these changes affect them personally and mentions the recent amendments to UK policies regarding trans rights.
• 02:30 - 04:30: Impact of Legal Changes The chapter discusses recent amendments made by the UK Supreme Court to the 2010 Equalities Act, specifically focusing on the definition of 'women' as those who are biologically born female, excluding trans women. The conversation highlights differing opinions on the matter, with scientists questioning the biological basis of the amendment. The chapter also hints at a discussion on chromosomes, suggesting a deeper dive into genetic and biological aspects.
• 04:30 - 07:00: Discussion on Toilets & Safety Concerns The chapter titled 'Discussion on Toilets & Safety Concerns' addresses the complex issues surrounding gender identity and societal perceptions of trans women. The speaker refers to a resource by Forest Valai that debunks the biological arguments often used in transphobic rhetoric. The discourse highlights the distinction between cis women and trans women, criticizing UK media for perpetuating the notion that "trans women are not women." The chapter touches on the broader implications of these narratives on healthcare and societal acceptance.
• 07:00 - 10:00: Legal Document Changes & Personal Decisions The chapter discusses various societal issues such as infrastructure, education, minimum wage, and workers' rights, highlighting the growing wealth gap between the rich and the poor. It also addresses controversial topics like trans rights, touching upon the debate around trans women using female bathrooms, and the role of the Equalities for Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The chapter criticizes the EHRC for being biased and allegedly operating as a group against trans rights, referencing leaked emails from 2022 that exposed transphobic attitudes within the organization.
• 10:00 - 13:00: Emotional and Community Reflections The chapter discusses the social and corporate responses to a recent ruling regarding transgender individuals and their access to gender-specific spaces. There's a misconception about the ruling restricting trans women from female spaces, though that is not what the ruling explicitly states. Barclays Bank in the UK is highlighted as they have taken a stand by not allowing trans women to use female bathrooms, which has led to personal responses such as account closure as a form of protest.

Do I Have to Leave the UK? Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 She's back. Hi, I'm back. What? I dyed my hair. I need to take this off cuz it doesn't match the outfit. It was just for the bit. We transers have had it too good for too long. We've been pillaging the bathrooms and we need to be taught a lesson. Do I have to leave the UK? I don't know yet. I do not know yet. I know that I mentioned that I don't like talking about activist things, serious things. I want to keep it light and fun, but things be changing and things be
• 00:30 - 01:00 changing real damn fast. I feel like I don't really have a choice to not talk about them because I am super affected by it and I'm sure a lot of people are very freaked out. It's becoming increasingly more hostile to be trans in apparently any country except Norway. I'm dating a Norwegian guy and he says that they have self ID. So, green card. If you're not up to date, recently the UK amended the 201 I wrote a script.
• 01:00 - 01:30 It's very hard to not yap. This is focused yapping. Try icky. Recently the UK Supreme Court changed amended the 2010 Equalities Act so that any reference to women was women who were born women, not trans women. Okay? I was going for biological sex, which scientists, I'm just going to say scientists like Trump does. The best scientists, they say that that is biological nonsense. Hey, Asha the editor here. Let's talk about chromosomes. The basic structure. I'm
• 01:30 - 02:00 not going to get into it. Biology is very complicated. Okay, shut up. Yeah, okay, fair enough. Basically, when you're done here, go and watch this video by Forest Valai. It's an excellent deep dive into why the bigoted appeal to biology is bollocks. Back to you, Ashley. We of course are still women, but we are just not cis women. But it was a very good excuse for the UK media to write trans women, not women. Obviously, this is a very important topic and not at all a distraction from how terrible the healthcare,
• 02:00 - 02:30 infrastructure, education, minimum wage, workers rights. It is not a distraction from the rich getting richer and the common people getting poorer. trans women going into female bathrooms is Armageddon. The EHRC, the Equalities for Human Rights Commission, you would think is, you know, a neutral party for human rights, but at this point, they're basically just a trans hate group. It was leaked in 2022 that their internal staff were sending emails that were incredibly transphobic. That's cool. They decided to kindly point out that
• 02:30 - 03:00 since the ruling, trans women cannot use female spaces, which isn't actually true. That's not what the ruling says at all, but they're using this as a kind of excuse to push on this and make it like law. Barkclays Bank in the UK has has become like the first UK business to declare trans women can't use their female bathrooms or I guess they can't use their male bathrooms either if you're a trans man. I forgot I even had a Barclays account, so I got into it and I have to wait 4 days to take the money out and I'm going to shut the account, which does nothing but makes me feel
• 03:00 - 03:30 better. The reason that they can't use them is because it would make them mixed sex spaces. We have had mixed sex spaces in the UK forever. Okay? We have toilets all across the country from service stations to restaurants to anything that have mixed sex staff. You know, a woman will go to the male's toilets to clean. A man will go to the women's toilets to clean. They have signs up telling you anyone of any sex could be coming in to clean these bathrooms. As well as this, a a mom will take her son into the
• 03:30 - 04:00 women's room. A dad will take his daughter into the men's room. It is not a big deal. You're not breaking some kind of sacred oath to enter the opposite sex spaceing bathroom. You're there to piss or poop and hopefully wash your hands. This is obviously terrible. It's It's awful. It sucks. I was hoping that it would turn into a non-issue. That's why I didn't really talk about it much. I was hoping that it would kind of fade away because it's very hard to enforce because it's not a law change. You know what are you going to do? Like genital inspect people. But it seems to
• 04:00 - 04:30 be snowballing. Obviously, that was not enough torture for the transers. There is currently a bill going around in UK parliament. And this bill has had an amendment added to it by the Hold on. I need to read it cuz I'm dumb. The shadow technology minister, which I know in the UK is a thing. We have a shadow cabinet, but it sounds evil. I'm sorry. It just sounds evil. Okay, you call yourself the shadow technology minister. Of course, you're going to put transphobic amendments in the bill. The amendment to this bill basically includes all trans people having their data reverted to
• 04:30 - 05:00 their birth sex. Things like the passport office, the DVLA, um HMRC, they will expune your records and replace them with like mister and that you're male and stuff. I have a GRC, gender recognition certificate, which legally change, where it did legally change my gender. I got sent a new birth certificate, which now is just garbage. I jumped through hoops to get it and now it means nothing. If I ever run out of toilet paper, I'm covered. I think what
• 05:00 - 05:30 this means is if I were to get like I would have to get a new passport that has maybe amended on it. Like because I have a GRC, I get the benefit of it saying my amended sex, which is female. But I don't know if it would still say my birth sex or if it would have to be birth sex. I don't know. It's pretty vague. All of this [ __ ] is vague. It's just excuses to obliterate trans people from existence. Again, not a distraction. The most important issue, this is an opposition amendment. So, the
• 05:30 - 06:00 current UK political party of power is Labor, which are supposed to be leftwing. Kia trans women aren't women. Starhmer is the prime minister, and he should shoot the bill down because it's an opposition bill, which usually like things like that don't go through. It was previously dropped because it violates the European Convention on Human Rights, but they thought, you know what, I'll just try again. Like the Supreme Court ruling on its own was not world ending, but it really is just being used as an excuse. And you can
• 06:00 - 06:30 tell this is an example of that. They decided to try again because legally trans people suck. Now, obviously, if this went through, this would mean that travel is a huge issue. It's already a huge issue for a lot of trans people either because they can't get amended documents or they struggle with, you know, passing and they get prejudice or they, you know, get patted down. There's just there's just a lot. My passport currently says female. I've had no issues with it. It's been great. I've I've used it to travel. I haven't
• 06:30 - 07:00 traveled a lot, but I've used it to travel to a few different countries and it's been fine. If that passport changed to male, I would not travel. They would do the opposite of what they want. They would not get rid of trans people. I would just be stuck on this island. I spoke to Pirby and she said that her passport had mail on it a few years ago and everything was completely fine. I don't know though. For me, it's just a personal discomfort. I wouldn't like it. It would be awkward going through security. I already feel gross. I was out yesterday in my city with Pippy and
• 07:00 - 07:30 I went to use the public bathroom and I was so conscious of it. I felt I didn't like I just felt kind of scared, you know, that something could happen. And I was already scared because of all this news anyway, but it was like a low tingle of like someone was going to shout at me. But now it's like I might get attacked or something. So yeah, I I don't know if this goes through and we have to change our legal documents, maybe I would just leave beforehand. I know that that is a very
• 07:30 - 08:00 privileged position. I know not a lot of people can just up and run. Um, but it it honestly I don't think I could afford it. I think it would be a bad decision, but I feel like I would have to do it. I would I would have to leave whilst my documents still said the correct gender, whilst I still had the birth certificate. And I don't know. I don't even know where is safe to go, where is comfortable, where trans people are accepted. And I don't have much hope, which I know sucks. I'm supposed
• 08:00 - 08:30 to Sorry, that's my anti-depressant alarm. I'm know I know that I'm supposed to be like I am here on the internet and people like my videos and I'm positive and happy and a distraction and I love that and I do that and that's what I want to do. But it it is harder and harder to ignore things because it's just going so bad. You know, there is absolutely nothing
• 08:30 - 09:00 wrong with being trans, but they are trying incredibly hard to make you think that there is. We could have a we're so back. You know, the it's over does not burn as bright as the we're so back inside. I know this will pass because we've had this before. They've used this playbook before on all kinds of communities. And ideally, people outside of those communities have learned. Uh, it's very important if you're sis toing help, please, because there's about five trans people and yeah, you guys are the
• 09:00 - 09:30 majority and you guys are cool. Help. I don't know. I'm venting. This is like therapy. Thank you. Um, please look after yourselves. I'm sorry that this was sad. I just am stressed. There's new X stuff coming out really soon. I got a bunch of Lab boos. If you don't follow the stream channel, why? We have fun. I promise we have fun. Don't we have fun, guys? They said yes. Yes, we do. I'm I'm I'm in too deep on
• 09:30 - 10:00 Warhammer. I've bought I'm paint I'm going to paint as soon as this video ends. I help.