Nick 🐋 @njmt.bsky.social

1 day ago

Can we talk about how being trans, or in this case looking like you might be trans, is apparently a disqualification for driving a fucking train?

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social

wait a second!! anti-trans laws... hurt... everybody?!!

who could have ever guessed?!!

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I'm just ugly not trans, train driver told colleagues
Aslef union appears to push back against Supreme Court ruling on definition of "woman"
Gareth Corfald
Transport spondent
A train driver insisted they were not transgender but "just ugly" when challenged by colleagues after the Supreme Court ruling on sender.
The unnamed driver made the remark following April's ruling, in which the highest judges in the country said "sex" in equality law refers to biological sex,
The "just ugly" comment was quoted in a submission made by Aslef, the train drivers trade union, to an Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) consultation.
In its submission, Aslef said: "Since the ruling, there have been examples of our members being questioned about their biological sex by colleagues to the level where one member felt the need to explain to their colleagues that they are just ugly.
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