Notices by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ (christineburns@mastodon.green)

@ChrisMayLA6 @aral I don’t think it’s as valuable as people may think. These days the vast majority of big ticket bills people HAVE to pay expect electronic payment in some form. Cash only has utility for bricks and mortar retail. You can’t easily pay council tax or energy bills with cash and most employers won’t pay you in cash either. High street banks are disappearing. So, even if you go on the run from a hostile society your cash won’t get you much or last long.

@aral @ChrisMayLA6 That is indeed how women were overpowered on day one of Gilead in the Handmaid’s Tale prequel.That’s not a cast iron case for cash though. Cash on hand won’t last you long in that scenario, no matter how big a mattress you store it under. Remember you can’t replenish cash from an ATM either in those circumstances. The scenario you’re painting happens every way so that says you have to think of alternative flight strategies, and I’m not revealing mine.

@ChrisMayLA6 I’m unmoved. I haven’t carried cash on me since March 2020 and it’s reached the point now where the idea of assigning value to little slips of paper and metal discs seems a bit strange. For budgeting I use computer ledgers and know not only where I stand to the penny but also how that position will change over months ahead. Cash would mean forever counting and trying to remember which bills are about to arrive. This wouldn’t have mattered when I worked and had an inherent..

@ChrisMayLA6 ..positive cash flow — one can afford to be imprecise in those circumstances — but in retirement I’m juggling a cash flow that can sometimes look deceptively comfortable but which I project will be uncomfortably tight in the next breath.

With Zuckerberg the warning signs were there when he set up a site using women’s photos without consent and invited all the guys to rate them. Maybe that should’ve been enough.

Erin Reed: In a major move, UN Women, the United Nations Entity tasked with women's equality and protection from violence, has called the gender critical movement an extremist "anti-rights" movement.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/un-women-calls-gender-criticals-an

It never stops with Trans people. Fresh from getting away with seizing the private medical records of trans people in Tennessee, republicans are now reaching for abortion provider records from out of state.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DRzz6lYStgo&feature=share

MSNBC on the House Republicans’ bill to ban trans kids from sports nationally…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8FsKxmk-DCM&feature=share

Trans People Say They’re Leaving England Because of Non-Stop Transphobia

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkqn7/trans-people-leaving-england

@YorksBylines We won the arguments across the board by legal and activist engagement processes between the late eighties and the mid noughties. Trans rights were won fair and square by hard work. As one of the team that won those rights and made the questions settled I object to people trying to rerun the ‘debate’ to get a different result. That could only happen by stripping back our rights and you can’t expect people to acquiesce to chicanery built on lies and fear mongering.