Lord Reed: How we will decide what constitutes a woman

Let's see what proportion of the UK females are dick pandering patient Griseldas in need of boundaries, ability to think of others beyond themselves, and a book on codependence.

There will sadly be many more than I would hope for, but they aren't the majority.

Let's see what proportion of the UK females are dick pandering patient Griseldas in need of boundaries, ability to think of others beyond themselves, and a book on codependence.

Sorry, I understood you to mean reality based.

Who get their say and so should every other real actual woman.

Let's see what proportion of the UK females are dick pandering patient Griseldas in need of boundaries, ability to think of others beyond themselves, and a book on codependence.

He's at least talked about the importance of clarity.

‘He is most proud of a case in 2015, which established that patients should be informed of all the facts before a medical procedure, so they can give proper consent.’

So at the moment, a man or woman should be informed that medical procedures to make their body look less like their actual sex and instead try and mimic the opposite sex, will not actually make them the opposite sex. That there is a % chance of numbness/ no sensation, etc etc and that chromosomes will not change. That illnesses such as cancer may be increased and that certain conditions that only men and women get will still need to be looked out for. Medical staff will need to know your sex for the best treatment in the future.

It’s bloody scary when doctors tell you the risks before an operation but I am glad they do. It also means that outcome statistics are followed up.

Anastomosisrex · Today 17:28

How about every biological adult human female in the UK?

Nicola Sturgeon, Sandy Brindley, Nadia Whittome.....

Call me a wishy-washy fence-sitting liberal-with-a-small-L, but I think this is just a job he and colleagues have been tasked with - to get a legal definition that will stand in all cases.
Otherwise, it'll be open to definition/challenge/appeal at every turn.
We can only hope that biology and common sense prevail😕

Lord Reed presents himself as a no-nonsense, modern kinda legal eagle, but part of the 'modern' bit is saying that the law needs to keep up with changes in society, and that's worrying.

On the other hand, he may want to make the law more straightforward, and he may not want to build in new legal fictions, e.g. a man with a special piece of paper is a woman. Sticking to XX-XY would take a lot of the hassle out of your decision-making process, m'luds and ladies!

Yeah, I don't think I need five people in a room, majority men, to tell me what a woman is after my gynae fun'n'games last spring.

Fuck sake.
Just when I thought that I couldn't possibly be MORE done with this shit.

Edited to correct rage-fuelled typo.

Is this wise man going to bestow his wisdom imminently? Because I've got a smear test coming up, and if would be great if it turns out I'm not actually a woman after all, and I don't need to go.

Ah, please post this on The Times comments

Not only a man, but a man that sits in the house of Lords thinks he gets to decide how we 'define' a woman. It is farcical.

As for the extreme end misogyny and arrogance of a man and a few others sitting in a chamber patting themselves on the back for their intellect and lack of emotion as they define the female half of the human race.....

defies words. It really does. The lack of self awareness is mind blowing.

No, the only thing that's changed is that reality and biology makes men sad.

It's obvious where it will go: 'woman' will be a possessor of magical womanly essence primarily possessed by people with penises.

Fuck this. Women need a new word.

How did they decide in the past? Like when women were denied the vote?
Women haven't actually changed biologically since then have they?

Well I just asked.

Woman = XX chromosomes
Man = XY.

Where's my fucking Nobel prize then ?

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I agree we should @Anastomosisrex

How about every biological adult human female in the UK?

Can we have a bloody referendum on this?

"The justices — three men and two women....."
BUT HOW DO THEY KNOW????

What happened with interventions, have any been allowed?

Grotesque.

Behold. A bloke has arrived to define and name us with his manly wisdom. With an eye to the convenience of other men.

How do we define what constitutes a man you stupid twat ?