Has twaw been tested in court?

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confuseddotcomma · 12/03/2021 20:51

Just that really. Does it have a legal basis?

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YouSetTheTone · 12/03/2021 22:22

I do understand what you’re saying nauticant - the court only gets involved in specific circumstances- but on the other hand I don’t understand how the TWAW principle can be applied/tested only in specific circumstances and not others. If the court has a verdict in specific circumstances doesn’t that get extrapolated? You can’t disagree with TWAW in prisons but allow it in, say, Women’s Prizes for Fiction. Can you? Just because one causes potential threat to life and the other doesn’t? Or is that the difference?

nauticant · 12/03/2021 21:25

TWAW is a bit like Brexit. It means many different things to many different people. Some people claim it's true in a biological sense which is clearly a deluded or a mendacious position. For some politicians it's a convenient slogan that means that they get a pass for the Woke Police checkpoints.

This means that courts aren't going to give a general answer. What the courts are going to answer is whether TWAW in highly specific circumstances. TWAW was discussed in narrow a narrow sense in Maya Forstater's case and in the MoJ case last week.

AdaFuckingShelby · 12/03/2021 21:22

I wonder what evidence they would present. The whole thing baffles me. If I claimed to feel like I am from a different race and demand that you saw me as such there would be uproar. But men can say they feel like they are women therefore they are women and that's ok. I just don't get it.

bourbonne · 12/03/2021 21:16

No.

McDuffy · 12/03/2021 21:12

Does Penny Mordaunt (sp?) stating it in parliament affect anything?

bourbonne · 12/03/2021 21:07

Oh man. It's a legal mess. Short answer, no it doesn't.

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