What is a woman? This now highly controversial issue will be decided in November by the highest court in the land.
No it won’t. It’s not the kind of thing that can be decided by a court, however high. The question would have to be “What will we all be required to call a woman?” or some similar wording for the claim to be true. Courts decide law; they can’t decide reality.
The justices — three men and two women — will be led by Lord Reed of Allermuir, 68, president of the court and the UK’s most senior judge. He is undaunted by the task. “When we hear cases … we are not trying to decide what social policy ought to be. That’s not our function. What we are trying to do, generally and in this particular case, is to interpret a particular statute or provision.”
What I’m saying. The Times really should have worded it that way. This business of confusing “what we are going to tell you to say” with truth or reality is the fundamental trick that gender ideology has been using and getting away with all this time.
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It’s Inherit The Wind all over again. Judges can’t decide whether evolution is true or not. Judges can’t decide whether sex is real or not. In time they’ll come to understand that they were the real subjects of the trials — the judges and the juries themselves: can they figure out that the truth is beyond their control? Or will they embarass themselves and obstruct progress with fear and denial?
Uh, well, what happens if the High Court decides against reality and people refuse to comply with what the Court demands? We can’t get rid of reality, but courts of all types have come and gone.
What is a mammal? What is a vegetable? Also matters of reality…though the words are human created, the relationships are observed. Yet the courts have deigned to rule on those…and gotten it wrong. Let’s hope they do better with women.
See also: “what is a fish?”
The courts really don’t have a great track record of deciding reality…
Not their department, said Werner von Braun.
Southwest88 #2
“Uh, well, what happens if the High Court decides against reality and people refuse to comply with what the Court demands? We can’t get rid of reality, but courts of all types have come and gone.”
Are we going to see people in the UK fined or imprisoned for refusing to call (say) Jordan Gray a woman?
https://thecritic.co.uk/a-dick-move/