Maya Forstater

As paragraph 4 of GR 28 reiterates: the objective of the Convention is the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women on the basis of sexpic.twitter.com/vEChNSiLIY

It then goes onto talk about gender based discrimination against women, referring to socially constructed identities, attributes and roles for women.pic.twitter.com/cUcoKr7xX0

In paragraph 18 it goes on to talk about intersectionality: religion, health, age, class, sexual orientation and gender identity. None of this says that an ill man, and old man, a working class man, or a feminine man is woman. Because that would be silly.pic.twitter.com/iJGTLyYNak

So you think that the "gender identity" part was intended to apply to trans men, who are, in your view, female people with a different gender identity? This is not, however, how the CEDAW Committee uses it in practice. The recommendations for Georgia http://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2FPPRiCAqhKb7yhsldCrOlUTvLRFDjh6%2Fx1pWDqKYdAsZCi%2FpTG5mONu7rLEgGDzc4uYj4EX9q0OwgEtztAerYJ0NdpVEHSESZXwGVBSGu0UKju%2FbfiY1zaPP1F … say:pic.twitter.com/UMMVpdu79C

General Recommendation 35 directly interprets General Recommendation 28pic.twitter.com/J0bhmSSlWv