At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.
@brucelawson hold on. It illegal for women to be topless in Scotland?
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast Dunno; I think it could be considered "indecent exposure", which is against the law. One protester said “If the Supreme Court can see these woman legally as men, then they’ll have zero issue with them going tops off.”
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/ 
Topless trans protest outside Holyrood a ‘public act of grief, resistance and solidarity’
Trans women staged a topless protest outside of the Scottish parliament to condemn the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of 'sex'.
@brucelawson it's bonkers that women topless is considered indecent but men aren't. Yet another example of inequality.
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast @brucelawson Especially men with breasts bigger than most women... Or massive belly they flaunt around so proudly. That's pretty indecent yet just allowed.
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