For those that are following - thought I’d start a thread. Here’s an article by Maya outlining her case and the background as well as links to her ‘skeleton argument’ (which I have not yet read). In her own words: ‘I believe that sex is real and that sex matters. It is important to be able to talk about biological sex and the ways in which men and women are differently affected by political, societal and cultural choices and policies. This is not inconsistent with believing that the rights of people not to be discriminated against for being transsexual must be respected.’ There is a hashtag on Twitter #IStandWithMaya

The skeleton argument is superbly laid out and thorough. I’m hopeful she’ll win her appeal in this and then I think she’ll be going back to the employment tribunal for the next part of her case on whether her company was fair to terminate her contract over her views expressed on Twitter.

This is a really good article - ‘sex denialism’ - kind of the same as climate change denial or flat earthers. https://thecritic.co.uk/sex-deniers-are-the-new-flat-earthers/ ‘So why would anyone want to deny something as important and obvious as sex? Perhaps it is the misguided belief that obscuring the reality of sex will help trans people. It is of course important to distinguish between sex and gender or gender identity (someone’s internal sense of who they are and the social roles they fulfil). There are people whose biological sex and gender identity do not match: trans people. I believe people should be free to self-identify as whatever gender they wish. However, one can no more self-identify one’s sex than you can self-identify your height. This needn’t be a problem — we can celebrate that there are people who want to break out of the traditional roles and social expectations associated with their sex. But the new ideology says that a trans person doesn’t merely change their gender, they change their sex — even if they’ve had no surgery or hormone treatment. This means believing that someone can have a body identical to that of a typical male and yet in fact be female purely through the act of identifying as such. The only way to make that falsehood true is to demolish the very notion of biological sex. Without the truth on their side, the sex denialists’ only option is to shut down discussion. Anyone who dares question the ideology faces insults, abuse and even violence. It’s an approach that has proven highly successful.’

The live tweeting by the Sex Matters account was brilliant, so thorough. A lot of the lawyer-y stuff went over my head but I’m hopeful it will go in Maya’s favour. This made me laugh this morning: a man arguing that Forstater was being cruelly transphobic when she accidentally misgendered a male presenting person with a beard, then accidentally misgenders as well. Of course he deleted and argued that his accidental misgendering was fine but hers was obviously cruel.

And here is a QC coming to understand the absurdity of this case (this is a photo of Gregor Murray who was very offended that Maya Forstater used he/him instead of they/them. Gregor Murray is a Scottish counsellor who resigned from “their” party after being investigated for calling women cunts).

yep - (for anyone reading who hasn’t followed this case) the bearded person in the picture ^ is who she allegedly “misgendered” - and they’re apparently “non binary” - so presumably even referring to them as “she” would be bad? this is utter madness. i want to wake up and discover it’s all been a bad dream.

Maya Forstater appeal

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For those that are following - thought I’d start a thread. Here’s an article by Maya outlining her c...