This is what I believe about sex and gender identity...... My witness statement to the tribunalhttps://medium.com/@MForstater/claimants-witness-statement-abe3e8073b41 …
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Replying to @MForstater
Your belief, women = adult human females, is flawed below the waterline. The word "woman" is not your's to own; like every other word it is owned by society, and we decide how to interpret it, and for at least the last century, society has accepted that transwomen are women too
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Replying to @julie_trans @MForstater
Bollocks. If you think you can present a coherent argument that people born male can be women, bring it. Otherwise STFU and go back to school.
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Replying to @AriadneStone @MForstater
I don't need to present any arguments whatsoever, society has done that for me and encapsulated it in law. Equality Act 2010 allows any male to present as a woman; whether or not they have made any physical changes to their body is, in more ways than one, immaterial
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Replying to @julie_trans @AriadneStone
Of course anyone can "present" in in any way they like. There are no laws about what men and women must wear or the names they can use! Show me where the Equality Act says that the terms man and woman are about presentation not sex (clue: it doesn't)
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Replying to @MForstater @AriadneStone
EA2010 states a person is protected by law even if they are "proposing" to undergo the process of "gender reassignment" by changing "other attributes of sex". These "other attributes" can be purely presentational. EHRC Statutory Code of Practice page 34 gives practical examples
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Replying to @julie_trans @AriadneStone
Yes they are protected by law against discrimination because of the protected characteristic 'gender reassignment'. They shouldn't lose their job, be harassed, be refused service in a restaurant etc... This does not mean that the protected characteristic of sex has changed.
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People have lots of different protected characteristics. Age, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment. This doesn't change *other* characteristics. If a service is for women it can exclude all men - whatever age, disability, sexuality and whatever they are wearing!
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