For women Scotland given leave to appeal.

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x.com/forwomenscot/status/1758462083832639848?s=46&t=AjtjSItRj-kgZwRzL-pdyQ

Great news. We need to get digging.

I love this thought 😊

It regularly crosses my mind that @Boiledbeetle is JKR…
<gimlet eyeball>

No! I'm actually Nicola Sturgeon!

If you are Nicola Sturgeon then I am the Sheikh of Araby.

Do I bow to a sheikh? Or kneel? Shake hands?

OK fine I'm not JKR or Nicola Sturgeon.

I shall ponder on who I actually am!

I could wait for the next 1000 but I'm wanting my bed, I'm sure it will click over to £138 K shortly

As I'm still awake

£138K

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1759926466953806127?s=19

Longer version of yesterday's green balloon!

Well that was a long time between numbers! £139K

Finally the masses are neck and neck with JKR. One more pound will take us into the lead!

£140,000

£140,050 Hurray!

It's getting there! But so slowly!!!

Just done my bit

Thank you Boiled 😂, nice to see some humour amongst the financial updates

I have found Dennis to be a great follow for anyone brave enough to dip into X/Twitter. His draft letter for parents to use re the new government guidance on gender in schools was excellent.

Dennis is great. He often explains things about court cases that I would never have known otherwise as I'm not a lawyer.

And another £1000 closer. £141,000

I am looking forward to this.

Any definition of sex will have to comply with the GRA and the EqA, in particular this phrase, which acknowledges that sex can change. So, either you can change sex, or sex doesn't mean chromosomes - its definition is broader and context-dependent, as the law suggests.

You choose.

A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.

Very good news.

That does not make those who are not biological women, biological women.
It would merely confim a legal fiction.
A bit like a company being an artificial legal person.

The Gender Recognition Act itself has exceptions. For religion, and primogeniture. Which is why the wording is that a person has changed "gender", not actual sex. It's not the Sex Recognition Act. They are to be treated as if they were that sex. Bar exceptions in both the GRA and EA.

It's quite possible to legally treat the whole EA protected characteristic of sex as an exception in and of itself. Women are female. "Trans women" are male.

Im not saying it's what is happening now, and I'm not complacent at all about this case. But I do think it's important for the concept of "gender" to come under some legal examination at a high level. It's not women who have brought in a highly contested ideology under the radar.

That's just silly. Concrete reality doesnt have to 'comply' with the law. It's concrete reality, humans don't and can't change sex. If anything is going to change It'll be unclear phraseology in the law, it won't be whether humans can change sex.

But still, it's nice that you're looking forward to having clarity in the law.

People with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment have or intend to change sex. Please let me know the definition of sex you suggest which is compatible with this. If it's not, then there is no case.