I have the following posters blocked, Steevo, CXRTrumpwit, and Aurora. This thread is important to me, I don't wish to read their bullshit and bollock, but as a consequence the thread is difficult to follow. So this post and future posts are unrelated to anything that the morons may or may not have said.
The judgment of the Supreme Court today is problematic for all kinds of reasons.
On the one hand I can understand the principle that the working definition of who a woman is, and for that matter who a man is, is made easier in comprehension if it is consistent across the Equality Act. In that sense, the simplification does make sense, though it imagines that we are insufficient in our intellect or sophistication to read clauses in context.
Because reproductive sex is binary and immutable, and referring to their example, it is unnecessary to state that under the protected characteristic of pregnancy to clarify that only those with the reproductive sex of being female or women can become pregnant.
More than this, they have now created the situation that a person can be female in the context of some statutes and male in the context of other statutes, making not just the operation of the Equality Act impractical in some senses, but making the practical application of a number of statutes unworkable.
The court referred to definitions found in previous acts. The fact that these acts were repealed shows that they no longer aligned or agreed with what parliament intended post 2004. And to further that timeline, it seems inconceivable that parliament intended sex to have one definition in the 2004 Act and the opposite in the 2010 Act.
The judgment will serve to have a very negative effect on the lives of trans people, but also a negative effect on all people.
I haven't read all 88 pages today. I was at a funeral today; unfortunately I'm at another funeral tomorrow.
What I have done is use the search function instead using key words to find points of interest. I found no results for ''convention rights'', ''birth certificate'', ''Goodwin'', ''Human Rights Act'', ''ECHR'', ''ECtHR''. All produced null results. Very concerning.