Lucy Hunter Blackburn in th Times

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Not sure if this has been posted somewhere, comments have been turned off:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7658eb2e-55f2-11eb-8852-f1ee277e4313?shareToken=8fcf112576a48945a7f3b29652354903

Thanks for sharing. Reading the details it shows the utter contempt shown for women.

Thank you - strange that they have turned comments off.

I wonder if I will count as a woman with their definition. I don’t require any particular pronouns, I’m currently wearing jeans advertised as women’s and a sweatshirt from the men’s section. I have a ‘female’ Christian name but I didn’t choose it.

I wasn’t ‘assigned’ female at birth - they did it by observation in those days. I wonder which year midwives took on responsibility for ‘assigning’ the sex of a baby - there might need to be some disciplinary action and extra training as so many seem to have got it wrong.

It would be interesting to see how they write their definition if they ever produce one.

I agree dyslek about the utter contempt for women as a class and the consequences of male validation for women that this whole dogma shows up. It’s absolutely grim.
This will be a really important judgment. Thank you For Women Scotland, for fighting this.

Garden - I assume comments have been turned off because the legal case is ongoing. I absolutely agree that the whole thing is shocking.

In 2018, MSPs agreed that the basis for deciding this should be whether a person is “living as a woman”, in the words of the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act, rather than their biological sex, or whether they have formally changed their legal sex using a gender recognition certificate. What it meant for someone born male to “live as a woman” was not defined.

Why is 'living as a woman' never defined?

Hand waving and saying that we all 'know' what 'living as a woman' means isn't enough for the drafting of a law. Let's have a proper definition.

thanks for highlighting this