This will oust the corruption of transgender

[The_Doc_Man]

Looks like the UK supreme court ruling about "what is a woman?" will stir up a bit of controversy.

 

[AccessBlaster]

 

[Cotswold]

Why don't trans-men demand to go in the gents?
Why isn't a trans's claim to be a woman cancelled for life after they ra**?
How can a rapist change into a woman between the crime and the court case and be referred to as a woman at their trial?
How can, what we assume to be intelligent people, incarcerate a rapist in a female prison and attempt to justify the decision?
After becoming a woman, how long is it before they stop needing to shave every day?
Why does this stuff from 0.04% of the population receive more coverage to that which is of interest to the other 99.96%?
If your young daughter, or granddaughter was followed into the changing room, or loo, by five trans, would you accept that?
How can a trans continue demand to use ladies changing facilities and ignore the considerable upset and anger that they cause?

I ask these questions because I am of a generation that has not been trained in such matters.

 

[DickyP]

Once the new UK laws go into effect, we'll probably have to permanently ban Colin since he can't control himself or Jon will end up getting fined for Colin's hateful remarks.

Just to nit-pick the law isn't new - just the existing one clarified, so it's already in effect.

 

[Cotswold]

In England the government, NHS and many companies dumped illegal situations on us all because they weren't able to understand, or couldn't be bothered to read a ten year old act of parliament. Or, which is more likely, it suited their purposes at the time.
Now all of them, presumably including Downing Street, are proposing to install 'unisex' toilets in their buildings.

All of this begs the question "how can uni anything mean multiple" ? It is from the Latin UNUS from which unit is also derived. Uni means one, a unicycle has one wheel, or it did when I last looked.
So just how has unisex managed to be understood by some to mean many?

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Multisex would be worse!!!

 

[DickyP]

So just how has unisex managed to be understood by some to mean many?

Just another example of (mainly by uneducated media) of the corruption of perfectly good words from ignorance or malice - like the word gender itself.

Other example which irks me are that things in UK are regularly described as 'iconic' when the word itself really refers to resembling a religious image.

Similarly how did the word cohort (a group of 600 to a 1000 soldiers) come to mean a year group in schools.

And the number of people that don't realize that the word 'faze' and 'phase' are not the same and have totally different meanings.

 

[Jon]

Laws in the UK are increasingly Orwelian. It is the slippery slope. The new online safety laws are just another nail in the coffin of letting people speak freely. The European laws were others. This clarification of "what is a woman" is a surprising breath of fresh air, considering the slow but inevitable slide into autocracy.

 

[moke123]

When I read the decision it appeared to me to be a very narrow finding which only applied to the definition in that particular Act of 2010. Do you guys have some sort of a "gender certificate" for trans people?

 

[Isaac]

Do you guys have some sort of a "gender certificate" for trans people?

What does that even mean?

 

[DickyP]

When I read the decision it appeared to me to be a very narrow finding which only applied to the definition in that particular Act of 2010. Do you guys have some sort of a "gender certificate" for trans people?

Two points. It's not narrow as it is the only applicable law. Secondly the answer to your question is yes (unfortunately). A Gender Recognition Certificate costs £6 .

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

You cannot beat the British sense of humour!!!

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

Pronoun's anyone?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1922626899190124690

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

It's all Monty Pythons fault:-

 

[The_Doc_Man]

That clip was from 46 years ago and it is equally relevant today.