The Amazing Schrodinger's FWS Judgment

[singthing]

It's really quite something.

One one hand, you have people desperately hand-wringing and weepily telling us that the FWS judgement is so impenetrably complicated, that nobody on earth can hope to understand a word of it without The Guidance from EHRC.

On the other, there are legions of copy-paste "ack-shu-ally..." posts also telling us that the judgment is crystal clear that trans people don't always have to be excluded, therefore they shouldn't ever be excluded (conveniently forgetting the whole point about where it matters they absolutely can and should be).

Quite remarkable.

Definitely.

I've seen it characterised by various TRAs during media interviews as either being only applicable to people who don't hold GRCs or only concerned with ensuring maternity provision for trans-identifying women.

FWS is characterised as either a very narrow and specific judgement if the speaker wants to belittle any woman relying on it in a legal challenge OR it's a hugely inconvenient and much too wide in scope judgement if TRAs want to encourage people to feel sorry for them 🤷‍♀️