Gender again. Sorry!

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AndyRM

Elder Goth
Let's have some positivity around female boxing, yeah?

Katie Taylor has won her latest pagger.

She's a legend.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/cg4rg9klkpno
 

HMS_Dave

Active Member
Is that like a gender VAR system? A woman wins something, but withhold the celebrations until they are confirmed to be a born Woman?
 

AndyRM

Elder Goth
Interesting that they're going after the Corporation of London and not the entirely voluntary and independent KLPA, who actually run the ponds.
 

CXRAndy

Legendary Member
Interesting that they're going after the Corporation of London and not the entirely voluntary and independent KLPA, who actually run the ponds.

Probably, they have control over multiple facilities. Hit them once and hard, all sub organisations have to adhere to judgement
 

AndyRM

Elder Goth
Yeah, the heavy handed approach went really well the last time they got the CoL involved. Didn't piss off the locals or fundamentally miss the ethos of the place.

Interestingly, and anecdotally I know, my sister who used to swim there until moving recently, rolled her eyes at this and said "I wonder if anyone local is actually involved here?"

For the record, she's very anti trans and an active evangelical Christian, so you'd think she'd be on board.

Anyway, I await the usual "just use the mixed pool" and "it's not safe" comments.

I wonder if they'll have a go at Panama Swimming Club next, which has several trans members and even a non binary one, all of whom have managed to get changed in seriously limited facilities for as long as anyone can remember.
 

monkers

Shaman
Its beyond that now, it's settled. Women deserve and have a right to their own private spaces.

The outcome is not quite what you think. You see this as a victory of the rights of the group you say you favour over another. What this case clearly demonstrates is that government is not afraid to emasculate the highest courts in order to assert their authority. In effect it diminishes the very sovereignty of parliament that Brexit was said to ensure. Instead it enabled a power grab.

Women's rights are not protected when human rights are first abused and later abolished. While women's rights might seem to you to be protected, this has not come without cost. When human rights are given as the reason to abolish human rights, we ought know that we have strayed from the path. The SC ruling will not change the minds of those who were already calling for that.

Neither should you overlook the absurdities that result from this legal fiction. On the one hand trans women are woman enough in law to marry a man without it being a same sex marriage. A trans woman marrying a woman continues to be under the law as a same sex marriage. She is now not considered woman enough to pee in a private space inside a public toilet where men are allowed despite the sign on the door, and without available law to exclude them.
 
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