Summon the legal boffins

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Ophelia Benson

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What exactly are we talking about here?

What is the question here?

The question is whether there is such a thing as a right to manifest gender critical beliefs. What beliefs are those? The belief that women are women, and the corresponding belief that men are men.

It seems very odd to ask if there is such a thing as a right to assert obvious basic impersonal facts. Why would there not be such a right?

What are called “gender critical beliefs” aren’t really beliefs as generally understood. They’re just facts, and very fundamental facts at that. Every single human who lives or has ever lived has been the product of a woman. Humans exist because women are women.

Trans ideology’s role in life is to pretend that those facts are contested and that there are valid and/or reasonable explanations of why they are contested. Hungry narcissists who get a lot of attention via pretending that some men are women and vice versa want us to believe that their game of let’s pretend is sacred and precious and vulnerable to the slightest dissent.

What kind of world would it be if we were not allowed to say that men are not women? If saying that were a crime, and we could be imprisoned for that crime? That’s what Euan Weddell is pushing for here.

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3 responses to “Summon the legal boffins”

  1. Acolyte of Sagan Avatar
    Acolyte of Sagan

    It seems to me that the legal boffins have already supplied the answer, so what’s the point of appealing to idiots on social media for verification? What Mr. Weddell is doing is akin to receiving a diagnosis from a medical expert and going to a homeopath for a second opinion.

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Well I suppose the point of appealing to idiots on social media for verification is that they will oblige. It’s self-soothing doncha know.

  3. NightCrow Avatar
    NightCrow

    >>It seems very odd to ask if there is such a thing as a right to assert obvious basic impersonal facts. Why would there not be such a right?

    >>What are called “gender critical beliefs” aren’t really beliefs as generally understood. They’re just facts, and very fundamental facts at that.

    It’s a peculiarity of modern UK law. Under the Equality Act 2010 ‘religion or belief’ is a ‘protected characteristic’. Belief is defined as ‘any religious or philosophical belief’ and includes scepticism: ‘lack of belief.’

    Among other things this means, or certainly should mean, that one can state the bleeding obvious without getting into legal trouble when someone doesn’t like it.

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