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What does living as a woman actually mean?

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astrowars · 21/12/2022 21:39

So if the Scottish parliament votes for the new law, and someone can obtain a certificate stating they're a woman because they have lived as one for 3 months ... is there a definition, description or checklist to ensure the individual has done everything needed? I have a horrid feeling I may now not be a woman under such a definition!

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FOJN · 21/12/2022 22:01

The list of things that have not been defined and are probably about to be codified into law is long and terrifying.

Happy days.

Form1ess · 21/12/2022 21:59

MSPs have provided no definition apart from using female forms of address. So all Big Beardy Brian needs to do is change his name to Ms Bryony and 3 months later he's in turning up in the female communal changing rooms.

Jaffapaffa · 21/12/2022 21:57

The ability to hover above a toilet seat and not actually touch it?

JacquelinePot · 21/12/2022 21:57

I think the legislation gives the example (I paraphrase) having a feminine name as evidenced by your gas bill

Probablymagrat · 21/12/2022 21:55

Whatever it is, and I have no idea, I bet it wont include earning 30% less, doing most of the housework, child care, sending all the christmas and birthday cards and buying all the sodding presents.

Swashbuckled · 21/12/2022 21:54

There’s a bloke in the next village who dresses as a woman.

But I first came across him on social media advertising his services as a plumber under his woman name. I was impressed and wanted to support her as she had built up a sizeable business. I thought of all the stick she’d have received, working for decades in a male dominated field; all the sexism and discrimination she must have faced and took my hat off to her. Decided to use her for my boiler.

Scrolled idly through her FB account to discover she was a he. All that fucking misplaced empathy… Three months, you say?

yourhairiswinterfire · 21/12/2022 21:53

Isn't it high heels, lipstick and pillow fights?

And spinning around in fields, rolling down hills and gazing lovingly at tampons according to that 'day 45 of girlhood' muppet.

dudsville · 21/12/2022 21:52

I wish when they wrote that the understood how unobtainable it was and therefore were clearly stating the impossible.

catandcoffee · 21/12/2022 21:52

Maybe there's a secret check list.

Soontobe60 · 21/12/2022 21:49

This woman is currently sat watching rubbish TV, DH is in the next room watching football. I don’t ‘do’ womanhood. I ‘am’ a woman. It’s a physical state of being that myself, and every other adult human female has not control over because it’s literally a stage in the life cycle of humans.

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 21/12/2022 21:48

Cattenberg · 21/12/2022 21:46

People using feminine pronouns for you?

Well that wouldn’t work as a definition

Cattenberg · 21/12/2022 21:46

People using feminine pronouns for you?

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 21/12/2022 21:44

WeDontNeedToTalkAboutJamie · 21/12/2022 21:41

Isn't it high heels, lipstick and pillow fights?

I mean actually I have no idea.

This is what worries me. I can't walk in heels and am allergic to feathers...

Swashbuckled · 21/12/2022 21:43

As the proposed age is 16, probably asking for their name to be changed in the school register... 🫤

dementedpixie · 21/12/2022 21:43

Lipstick, long hair, high heels and a spinny skirt?

Riverlee · 21/12/2022 21:43

I’ve wondered that also. I wore trousers today, does that make me a man?

WeDontNeedToTalkAboutJamie · 21/12/2022 21:41

Isn't it high heels, lipstick and pillow fights?

I mean actually I have no idea.

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