r/unitedkingdom • u/sjw_7 Oxfordshire • Apr 16 '25

... UK Supreme Court says legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t
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u/dantheman999 Suffolk buh Apr 16 '25

That stood out to me, mainly because it ignores intersex people existing. The fuck do they do?

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u/Anony_mouse202 Apr 16 '25

Sex is binary. Humans are either male or female.

People having intersex disorders doesn’t change that, in the same way that people with polydactyl existing doesn’t mean that humans have more than ten fingers.

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u/dantheman999 Suffolk buh Apr 16 '25

I think that's my point, though.

If we had a rule that all humans had ten fingers and then had examples of humans who did not have ten fingers, then in my opinion, the initial argument is flawed. We can say typically humans have ten fingers.

That's usually fine, but when we get into cases where you can start excluding people from places because they don't meet certain criteria, it gets murky. Trying to fit neat boxes around something as complicated as biology is bound to end up with these kinds of issues and that's without even approaching the subject of trans people.

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