Posted on 04/06/2023 4:36:40 PM PDT by Twotone
Britain's equalities minister is mulling a change to the law that would only allow women access to some same-sex spaces and sporting arenas on the basis of so-called "biological" grounds.
Kemi Badenoch has been told that defining someone's sex as "biological" could provide "greater legal clarity" on issues such as who accesses women-only hospital wards, and who can participate in certain sporting events.
But it would also be "more ambiguous or potentially disadvantageous" in areas such as equal pay and sex discrimination.
The advice came in a letter from Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Badenoch wrote to the commission in February requesting guidance on the "benefits or otherwise" of amending the definition of sex in the existing Equality Act.
Falkner notes that under the Gender Recognition Act of 2004, "a person with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) becomes the acquired gender ‘for all purposes’ and recognised as their legal sex, broadly equivalent to the way sex recorded at birth is recognised in law for other people."
But she argues this may result in some legal uncertainties.
Under current laws, Falkner wrote, providers of women-only services such as hospital wards have to "conduct a careful balancing exercise to justify excluding all trans women."
"A biological definition of sex would make it simpler to make a women’s-only ward a space for biological women," she said.
Transgender rights advocates and many experts argue, however, that strict definitions of sex based on anatomy at birth can miss biological nuances.
In sports, organizers currently have to show that excluding transgender women is necessary "in the interests of fairness or safety." Defining sex as "biological" would remove that "additional burden," Falkner said.
But "detailed policy and legal analysis" should be undertaken if the government wanted to pursue a change...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
Sex is either an act, or a biological description
not sure who has been telling you otherwise
so-called...
Yeah, it’s Politico... reality need not intrude.
damn...
At this point it’s all gooballygoook.
Instructions:
Pre-op - strip nekked, step into the shower and look down. There’s your answer.
Post-op - strip nekked, step into the shower and look down. If it looks like Dr. Josef Mengele was your primary care manager, all that mess is gonna start talkin’ to you at around your 45th birthday.
***UK minister mulling law change to define sex as ‘biological’***
Isn’t it absurd that our society has gotten to the place where we should need a law to define what sex/gender means?
***UK minister mulling law change to define sex as ‘biological’***
Isn’t it absurd that our society has gotten to the place where we should need a law to define what sex/gender means?
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