schizoidman@lemm.ee to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 22 hours agoKeir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 sayswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down18cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up195arrow-down1external-linkKeir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 sayswww.bbc.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square21fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·17 hours agoHonest question, why should there even be a legal definition of woman?
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·16 hours agomainly for purposes like: who gets into women’s prisons, women’s bathrooms, women’s domestic violence shelters I agree with you that in a gender-equal society there shouldn’t be many purposes for which this matters, but “not many” isn’t “none”.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 hours agoSo next question, why are all those gendered? If the answer is the threat of violence, what does it say about us as a society that we can’t prevent it without segregating women?
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Honest question, why should there even be a legal definition of woman?
mainly for purposes like: who gets into women’s prisons, women’s bathrooms, women’s domestic violence shelters
I agree with you that in a gender-equal society there shouldn’t be many purposes for which this matters, but “not many” isn’t “none”.
So next question, why are all those gendered? If the answer is the threat of violence, what does it say about us as a society that we can’t prevent it without segregating women?
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