State-mandated discrimination is why we must resist Digital ID
Whenever our glorious Labour government talks about banning trans people from public toilets and other spaces, folks ask how they can prove someone is trans, rather than guess and accidentally exclude a good person.
The government, to their credit, admit that you can’t. There’s no piece of paperwork that can prove it. I’ve got an “F” on my passport just like half the population, and there’s no way of knowing mine’s the dirty type that came from a Gender Recognition Certificate.
Same for my birth certificate. Same for my HMRC records. Same for everything. You can’t demand a single piece of paper from me that confirms I’m a bad one.
But in Starmer’s head, I’m sure he’s thinking of a way to fix this. A new kind of ID, for sure. Immutable identity. Digital records that every citizen needs to carry to work in the UK. It’ll hold everything about you. Why not add sex on there, too. An easy, immutable Boolean flag. Why not?
Then the cops can just demand to see it and know if you’re woman enough. Maybe they’ll let any concerned citizen demand to see it, all in the cause of protecting women and children and families and hard-working Brits and all their traditional values.
You know they won’t be able to stop themselves. And you know it won’t stop with us.