LilaApr 16
Niléane

Today's ruling of the UK Supreme Court sets a dangerous and nonsensical precedent for all women in the UK and in the world.

Here's @toutesdesfemmes's full statement in English: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347166620370401

And in French: https://asso.lgbt/@toutesdesfemmes/114347155080739401

Toutes des Femmes (@toutesdesfemmes@asso.lgbt)

Attached: 1 image Today, the UK Supreme Court ruled that gender equality laws do not include trans women. Here is why this ruling is nonsensical.

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Apr 16 at 10:32amWeb
Show threadNiléaneApr 16

Don't be fooled by any of the so-called feminists cheering on this news today:

The fact that the UK Supreme Court's ruling almost explicitly defines being a woman as the ability to get pregnant should make it clear to everyone that this decision is profoundly misogynistic and sexist.

Show threadChèvre MousseApr 16
@nileane Do you have a source for the "ability to get pregnant" part? All I can find relates to being "born biologically female" or equivalent notions.
Show threadNiléaneApr 16
@legendarybassoon https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t?post=asset%3A2d417386-6d1d-45d3-8d4c-f4fc8a5374b9#post
UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex

Judges say the "concept of sex is binary" while adding that transgender people will still have protection against discrimination.

BBC News
Show threadNiléaneApr 16
@legendarybassoon In short: the ruling says the reference to “women” in the Equality Act must by definition only include “biological women” because the act refers to issues that relate to pregnancy and maternity.
Show threadChèvre MousseApr 16

@nileane I don't read it like that: I read that within the Equality Act, issues related to maternity and pregnancy must refer to "biological sex" (whatever that means) while other parts of the Act may not necessarily be bound by biology.

If anything, this says "You cannot get pregnant if you are not a (biological) woman" which is a terrible decision but a different standing from "You cannot be a (biological, or...) woman if you cannot get pregnant"

Show threadNiléaneApr 16
@legendarybassoon The fact of the matter is that the Court is using pregnancy as a justification for why “women” in the Equality Act cannot refer to anything but “biological women.”
Show threadLou Madeleine Cerise 🧁Apr 16
@nileane by this definition, menopaused women aren't women to them then?
Show threadNiléaneApr 16

@kouett 🤷‍♀️

https://nileane.fr/@nileane/114347633901034719

Niléane (@nileane@nileane.fr)

@legendarybassoon@mamot.fr In short: the ruling says the reference to “women” in the Equality Act must by definition only include “biological women” because the act refers to issues that relate to pregnancy and maternity.

Niléane & friends
Show threadZoidberg For PresidentApr 16

@nileane The fewer the women considered as such the lesser they are protected and thus the more can be attacked and preyed upon.

Disgusting.