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Let’s see what the Equality Act 2010 says about how to define “sex.”
Under the Equality Act 2010, ‘sex’ is understood as binary, being a man or a woman. For the purposes of the Act, a person’s legal sex is their biological sex as recorded on their birth certificate. A trans person can change their legal sex by obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate. A trans person who does not have a Gender Recognition Certificate retains the sex recorded on their birth certificate for the purposes of the Act.
Well there’s a train wreck. Sentence 2: “a person’s legal sex is their biological sex as recorded on their birth certificate.” Sentence 3: A trans person can change their legal sex by obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate. In other words, a person’s legal sex is their biological sex and a person’s legal sex is not their biological sex. No wonder that needs “clarification.”
The Equality Act protects individuals from discrimination and harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic. Protected characteristics include sex (being a man or a woman) and gender reassignment (being an individual who is ‘proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process or part of a process to reassign their sex’).
Well guess what, chumps, you can’t do both of those. You can’t and you aren’t and you don’t. You can’t protect women from endless bullying and shunning and persecution if you insist on pretending that men can become biological women by getting a “gender recognition certificate.”
“Well guess what, chumps, you can’t do both of those. You can’t and you aren’t and you don’t. You can’t protect women from endless bullying and shunning and persecution if you insist on pretending that men can become biological women by getting a “gender recognition certificate.””
Actually, I’m going to disagree with this. It’s perfectly possible to protect members of both groups from the same sorts of discrimination–employment, housing, harassment, etc. The issue currently is that TRAs are demanding, as you’ve often pointed out, completely different ‘protections’ that have nothing to do with the usual ‘rights’ we try to secure with legislation.
It’s possible but only if you understand the meaning of “sex” and “discrimination” and “harassment” the way we did before trans ideology blessed us with new understandings of all those categories. It’s not possible once you consider it “discrimination” and “harassment” to fail to agree that men are women.
There’s also the problem birth certificates. “[A] person’s legal sex is their biological sex as recorded on their birth certificate” is fine up until you allow people to change the sex recorded on their birth certificate.