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UK Equalities Minister

An old joke — just given a new lease of life

jane fae
5 min readJan 9, 2023
UK Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch: a joke, but not a very funny one

It’s not often that Government Ministers volunteer to provide updates to material i use in my occasional forays into stand-up. Yet here we are. And here i am, today, thanking good ole Kemi Badenoch for providing me with at least another par to my set about the Gender Recognition Act, through her seemingly uninformed take on the grc process.

Old jokes

Here’s what i was running with until recently:

Big issue of the moment is reform to the Gender Recognition Act. Leading the resistance is that same bunch of anti-trans feminists. Change the GRA and men will wake up in the morning, declare themselves women and head off to the nearest women’s space to commit crime.

Because that’s exactly how your friendly neighbourhood pervert thinks. I feel like harassing some women. I can fill out a load of forms, wait weeks to get the thumbs up from my local court, change my gender for the rest of my life. Or I can steal a yellow dayglo jacket, grab a mop and bucket and pretend to be a cleaner. Hmm. No contest. I’ll get myself a GRC.

In the case of Piers Morgan, he thought he might wake up as a giraffe.

In vain was it pointed out that anyone doing this would be a criminal. The loo trick: not…

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jane fae
jane fae

Written by jane fae

Feminist, writer, campaigner on political and sexual liberty who also knows a bit about IT, the law and policing. Not entirely serious…

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