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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Jo Bartosch: Joe Biden’s war on women

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Abitofalark · 26/01/2021 18:00

Article in Spiked, 25 Jan. www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/25/joe-bidens-war-on-women/

Did a Search but couldn't find a thread on it, though I feel sure the topic must have come up and we are all alive to the implications for women and girls, which she also covers.

Jo B outlines the scope of the Executive Order - full text here www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation/

The Order cites the Constitutional and legal basis of anti-discrimination in a recent Supreme Court case and the Civil Rights Act 1964:
'These principles are also enshrined in our Nation’s anti-discrimination laws, among them Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.). In Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. _ (2020), the Supreme Court held that Title VII’s prohibition on discrimination “because of . . . sex” covers discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. Under Bostock‘s reasoning, laws that prohibit sex discrimination — including Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.), the Fair Housing Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.), and section 412 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended (8 U.S.C. 1522), along with their respective implementing regulations — prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation, so long as the laws do not contain sufficient indications to the contrary.'

Effectively, the Supreme Court judges read gender identity into sex.
I haven't read the judgement yet to see what arguments and implications were considered in the case.

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BraveBananaBadge · 27/01/2021 10:40

Interesting read, thanks. Liked this way of putting it:

“Gender identity is not a fringe issue, it is an ideological hydra that threatens to undermine everything from language to our most basic human rights.”

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