Use female specific slurs against trans women to avoid being discriminatory, says tribunal

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https://apple.news/ABgbFt6FeSia_7EccfFtAhQ

WTF?

Given it wasn't believed, I'm wondering if this is just another attempt at strategic litigation.

Stopping being insulted on the basis that they're male.

One of the many 900 (and rising) comments on the Telegaoh article

Would wankette be suitable? What a shower of imbeciles

Is there a gsp in the market? Could one sell a Dictionary of Approved Gender-neutral Insults (paper and electronic versions available?

Yes, it's downright sexist to assume that 'wanker' is a sexed insult! Does this TW not know anything about women?

I'll stick with gobshite then, applicable to all or no genders equally.

There are some really captured employment tribunal judges.

How ridiculous.

Even if it is an insult largely aimed at males someone is entitled after the Forstater decision not to believe a trans person is their acquired gender and so using male specific terms is surely fine and in keeping with that (both withstanding that no one should be calling anyone names at work anyway).

One for the diary! Who could forget our poor period officer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66584577

Why would "wanker" be gender specific even if you did think it was all about the penis? There are plenty of "women" with penises, according to this ideology.

I wonder if they disliked ruling against a tw, cos y'know, and this was just a bone to toss 'her' (tee hee 'bone', 'tosser') and demonstrate they are still on TRSOH.

Good point

and this was just a bone to toss 'her'
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I wonder if they disliked ruling against a tw, cos y'know, and this was just a bone to toss 'her' (tee hee 'bone', 'tosser') and demonstrate they are still on TRSOH.

Yes. They knew this person was a chancer, I imagine.

Apologies meant to quote

It’s ridiculous, all insults are universal, not gender specific. Even (IMO) ‘bitch’ which some people see as misogynistic, but I see as universal since watching Breaking Bad. Jessie calls everyone ‘bitch’ and it works. How can wanker be gender specific when everyone wanks, anyway.

I have no words.....

I have no words.....

Probably safest

Haha! Quite.

Admitting that a penis is an exclusively male appendage seems something of a self own.

To be fair to the TW, the particular bullshit about wanker being 'gendered' appears to have been largely promulgated by the judge.

This is exactly why I’m not a supporter or ally to any trans person anymore.

This seems to be an overreach on the part of the Employment Tribunal? Perhaps a result of all the secret (don't tell the public what we're doing) trans training that's been offered to the judiciary?
They have no business legislating on how that word may be used by the public. I mean - where does that leave use of the word "cunt"?

Yet another of thousands of examples of how this anti democratic ideology attempts to force the rest of society to operate in their favour.

A minority of the tribunal disagreed with a witness for the respondent who said that “wanker” was a gender neutral term. I think the headline is overegging it slightly.

Off the top of my head I've called women a wanker and a cock and a knob-head, and I've called men a cunt a bitch a fanny and a tit.

I'm sure i could come up with plenty more I've used over the years as well.

Not that I've ever used it myself, but it would be a crying shame to restrict the use of the Scottish 'bawbag'.

Also, are 'wankbadger', 'fucknugget', 'fuckbustard' and 'shitgibbon' sufficiently gender neutral?

(Not working on a dictionary at all, oh no.)

Fannybaws is entirely gender neutral.