Supreme Court to announce ruling on definition of a woman

Unsurprising.

On the surface the ruling isn't awful because it's the old TERF play of: "they're entitled to protection from discrimination on the basis of their transgender characteristic but not under the basis of being a woman", so effectively it means that under the eyes of the law a "trans woman" is the characteristics "man" + "transgender" which is essentially how the TERFs see it with their newspeak slurs ("TIM","TIL").

But de-facto this has already long been the case anyway. The real reason trans women have any legal protections remaining at all is because it's a violation of privacy to actually go and check if someone has had a GRC and this ruling doesn't change that and even reasserts that in some situations trans women are entitled to protections based on perceived sex, as improvable and meaningless as that is.

I think the real play here is to clarify that the GRA and the EA2010 are in contradiction because the latter refers to "biological sex", because that is a cassus beli for repealing the GRA outright, which is the ultimate goal.

We lost the war, and this is the enforcement settlement.

Here's your fine democracy hard at work. On the other hand the house of lords before the supreme court never pulled shit like this, schadenfreude is in full swing on /r/LabourUK from assorted democracy defenders.

Idgaf about any politics anymore, all I want is revenge.

To all the trans folks who kept their head in the sand pretending everything was fine seeing stats from yougov like vast majority of the public being against our healthcare and only increasing - you're the enemy too.

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I feel this section heading is the pertinent one:
How did we get here?
Just fucking treat people equally with respect and legislate on that basis. Are you a person: yes. Fine then you should be treated with respect. Job done.
- This ruling doesn't change that.
  the worry is what comes next.
Unsurprising.
On the surface the ruling isn't awful because it's the old TERF play of: "they're entitled to protection from discrimination on the basis of their transgender characteristic but not under the basis of being a woman", so effectively it means that under the eyes of the law a "trans woman" is the characteristics "man" + "transgender" which is essentially how the TERFs see it with their newspeak slurs ("TIM","TIL").
But de-facto this has already long been the case anyway. The real reason trans women have any legal protections remaining at all is because it's a violation of privacy to actually go and check if someone has had a GRC and this ruling doesn't change that and even reasserts that in some situations trans women are entitled to protections based on perceived sex, as improvable and meaningless as that is.
I think the real play here is to clarify that the GRA and the EA2010 are in contradiction because the latter refers to "biological sex", because that is a cassus beli for repealing the GRA outright, which is the ultimate goal.
We lost the war, and this is the enforcement settlement.
Here's your fine democracy hard at work. On the other hand the house of lords before the supreme court never pulled shit like this, schadenfreude is in full swing on /r/LabourUK from assorted democracy defenders.
Idgaf about any politics anymore, all I want is revenge.
To all the trans folks who kept their head in the sand pretending everything was fine seeing stats from yougov like vast majority of the public being against our healthcare and only increasing - you're the enemy too.