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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 18:50:26 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   I'm not going to link it actually, you can look it up. Most of the coverage I've seen is itself transphobic.

   UK supreme court just invalidated trans womens' existence.

   I'm so sorry to everyone who's being hit by this :(

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 18:51:04 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     If anyone has an article they can recommend linking, lmk

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     jan Ki | 奇 :nonbinary_flag: (ki@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 19:15:56 JST jan Ki | 奇 :nonbinary_flag:

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     @cwebber
     https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/supreme-court-uk-trans-woman-definition/ this is the best one that I could find, although it does not state or explain that "biological sex" is not a well-defined phrase but utter bs

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     jack (jackeric@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 19:41:51 JST jack

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     @cwebber
     [from the ruling]: "It is fanciful (even perverse) to think that any reasonable objection to the presence of a person of the opposite sex could be grounded in (gender recognition certificate) GRC status or that a confidential GRC could make any difference at all."

     [from a pal]: So, orgs who can't conduct biological sex checks (so, almost all of them outside medical settings) have basically no choice but to use SelfId

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     jack (jackeric@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 19:41:52 JST jack

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     @cwebber kinda mix of "this is bad but it might backfire on the GCs and lead to self-ID (in Scotland) (if the Scottish gov has the guts to push for it)"

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     jack (jackeric@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 19:41:53 JST jack

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     @cwebber the scotpol groupchat is pointing out it makes GRCs meaningless, and maybe makes the UK in breach of the ECHR 2004 ruling that brought in GRCs in the first place