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Isabela Fairclough's avatar

Thank you, Alessandra. I had been waiting to see what you would say. They could have done it even better, true, and more clearly, but it is a great victory none-the-less. I liked this new (?) expression, "certificated sex". It seems to suggest (more clearly than "acquired gender" or other misleading expressions such as "legal sex") sex according to paperwork, and not the real sex. I think you were suggesting a while ago that "gender identity" could be subsumed under "belief", and thus be protected under "philosophical and religious belief", rather than being a distinct protected characteristic (gender reassignment). Then one would be free to believe that the earth is flat, that men can become women, that 2 + 2 is sometimes 5, and any number of strange ideas, as long as they did not impose them on everyone else. I thought this was a great idea. Though when, I wonder, will we see the belief that sex is binary and immutable protected in some other way rather than as a "philosophical belief", apparently on a par with these above? Still a long way to go...

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Sex Not GI's avatar

Alessandra, I am considering the opening statement of our repeal of the GRA to be "We are seeking the repeal of the GRA to re-establish the primacy of Sex: binary (male or female) and immutable over a perceived Gender Identity that differs from one's sex observed in utero and/or at birth and recorded".

P100 of the SC ruling suggests that the GRA grants more than the falsification of sex on documents such as birth certificate, marriage certificate, civil partnership certificate and death certificate (and those only applicable to those who have been issued a GRC by the Gender Recognition Panel).

If the GRA is repealed and the PC of Gender Reassignment subsumed into the PCs of Religion or Belief (that one has a Gender Identity at variance with ones's sex) and Disability (suffering from the contested symptom, not diagnosis, of Gender Dysphoria and the delusion they are not the sex they were born) what rights do you think the SC were thinking of that TW/TIM would be deprived of?

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