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 'What is a woman?'

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PostSubject: 'What is a woman?'   'What is a woman?' Icon_minitimeSun 25 Aug 2024 - 3:43

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A transgender woman from Australia has won a discrimination case against a women-only social media app, after she was denied access on the basis of being male.

The Federal Court found that although Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against, she was a victim of indirect discrimination - which refers to when a decision disadvantages a person with a particular attribute - and ordered the app to pay her A$10,000 ($6,700; £5,100) plus costs.

It’s a landmark ruling when it comes to gender identity, and at the very heart of the case was the ever more contentious question: what is a woman?

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IMO: It's sad that a legal case can override what is obvious to most of us - that a man or woman is born that way. Still, we are supposed to violate common sense and the facts in the face of opinions that we are told matter more than biology.

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PostSubject: Re: 'What is a woman?'   'What is a woman?' Icon_minitimeSun 25 Aug 2024 - 5:23

And it makes natural born women second class citizens because, essentially, any man that sings the Shania Twain song can claim to "identify as a woman" and 'be a woman', regardless of plumbing.
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PostSubject: Re: 'What is a woman?'   'What is a woman?' Icon_minitimeSun 25 Aug 2024 - 6:56

We need to start treating sex and gender as two separate things.
And then, you are allowed to segregate people by sex but not by gender.
Though that still leaves plenty of questions about where you draw the lines and how many genders are there.

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