International What’s Day?
Meanwhile, we just can’t figure out what a woman is.
Woman’s Hour starting at 21:15:
Emma Barnett: And Labour’s definition of a woman?
Labour Equalities Shadow Minster Annalise Dodds: Well, I have to say that there are different definitions legally around what a woman actually is, I mean you look at the definition within the Equality Act and I think it just says someone who is adult and female I think but that doesn’t say how you define either of those things – I mean that said obviously you’ve got the biological definition, the legal definition –
In short we just don’t quite know. There are different definitions, it all depends, you have to ask around, there’s the legal definition and the magic pony playtime definition.
Ok then what’s a man?
Oh don’t be silly, that’s easy, nobody’s asking that.
Admittedly, the “adult” part admits many possible definitions. The “female” part doesn’t.
The day of Maya Forstater’s landmark legal victory (June 10, 2021), her solicitor Peter Daly posted an essay about the many implications of the decision. One point is that the UK legal definition of sex is the sex binary, male and female. So where Annalise Dodds talked about the definition of female
the first is the definition of the second.
Women! Total mystery!