I find this disappointing from Lady Hale

The average reader might assume that she had something to do with last month's Supreme Court judgement and is clarifying what they meant but she left the Supreme Court five years ago. She was not involved and no way should she be saying this. Her daughter seems to be a trans rights supporter.

Some doctors said they don't believe that sex is binary.

She didn't say that though. She said: “I was with some doctors last week who said there is no such thing as biological sex,”

What sort of doctor would come out with that sort of bollocks? I hope no medical doctor would say something so ridiculous.

This article definitely is weasel words trying to placate everyone. Do trans women count for women quotas? blah blah avoid question. Some doctors said they don't believe that sex is binary. I say there has been a big reaction to the judgment. Let's all find the middle ground. It is for everyone to work out how the EA applies to their situation. Aren't unisex toilets at this lovely middle class book festival wonderful. Fence sitting in spectacular form

Probably PhDs in gender studies.

Honestly, when supposedly educated people in positions of power spout this bullshit I feel that, as a species, we may very well lose the ability to communicate in words in the not too distant future.

If you distort words to mean whatever you personally want with no reference to anyone else's understanding, what's the point?

Speaking at the Charleston literary festival in East Sussex, the first female president of the supreme court...

How can she be the first female president, if biological sex doesn't exist?

So many people have been eased into supporting trans ideology without any question. Now they are having to explain their (non existent) rationale, they can't.

Rather than just admitting that they didnt think too hard in the first place, they are forced to pretend that sex doesnt exist. Notice she still isn't thinking for herself- shes saying doctors are saying sex doesn't exist.

It's just privileged people spouting luxury views.
But disappointing from a former judge.

I find it unsettling when supposedly clever people, with power over us, spout this nonsense. To borrow from something I saw on X, are we all just random gender identities bumping into each other until sometimes a baby pops out?

Yes this. We could lose the ability to speak words or understand the concept of a newspaper and everyone would still recognise everyone else's sex.

It's a pretty fundamental requirement for survival of the species. All mammals have two sexes, and for a lot of them ability to recognise sex is inbuilt - even across species. Many dogs, for example, recognise the sex of humans (some dogs don't like and recognise men, whatever their gender identity).

We'll lose the ability to speak before we lose the ability to recognise sex.

The article says this about her daughter:

When asked by an audience member whether trans women should count towards gender quotas on company boards, she said: “The idea that the trigger for all of this case was whether trans women should represent women in the representation of women on boards, I find heartbreaking.” She said she would love to have “a talented trans woman sitting on a board of mine”.

I suspect her daughter's views are having an influence.

Where they doctors of philosophy, not the medical kind?

I’d love to hear an explanation of why there is ‘no such thing as biological sex’. Every (medical) doctor knows that they need to know the sex of their patient to correctly interpret symptoms (and correctly prescribe solutions). I’d be extremely wary of being treated by any doctor who believed my sex was irrelevant!

Did she mean to add "And they have god-like knowledge, so of course I agree with them" or was it "But they are evidently idiots on this topic, so nobody ought to take them seriously"?

Was it Dr Helen and Dr Mike Webberley by any chance?

You could also say there's also no such thing as doctors, last week or the Guardian.

Before you even start on festivals, east Sussex, legal, definition and misinterpreted.

Compared to those, sex is pretty fucking concrete.