… in the context of the 2010 Equalities Act.
Personal note:
This is a dangerous precedent that is already being used to justify banning trans women from women’s bathrooms, and will likely allow male police / security to manhandle women to ascertain their gender. It will also put trans women at a further disadvantage for getting jobs, as if there wasn’t enough stigma as is.
Get ready for the genital inspectors, more transpotting (like with that non-trans lady in the Olympics) and an increased amount of abuse of trans people.
I wasn’t sure how big a deal this whole ruling was, but it’s going to impact every trans person every time they need to use the bathroom in public. That seems a big enough deal to me.
Also, a number of quotes used the phrase “women are women and men are men.” If someone reading this agrees with that statement, please review the chart below. There’s a whole lot of ambiguity between the classic XX woman and XY man.
Well… I agree with the phrase only on the principle that it’s a tautology. “X is X” is generally going to be true for anything. I don’t agree with it to the extent that it means only cis (wo)men are (wo)men.