Thread by @fairplaywomen

Follow @fairplaywomen for live tweets and reaction from the Supreme Court today. Judges hear an appeal to allow people who identify as non-binary to put an X in the sex box on their passport /1

All sounds pretty harmless doesn't it. But beware. It has the potential to undermine women's rights because it opens the door to people claiming they are 'sexless'. /2

We've seen this before with transgender issues. The concepts of gender identity & sex get conflated.

It starts out with "a man can identify as a woman". Next its claimed that humans can *actually* change sex and a penis can be a female sex organ. And only transphobes disagree /3

It starts out with the idea that "a woman is anyone who feels like a woman". Next thing we are told is that sex is just a feeling not a biological reality, and only bigot disagree /4

And now, its the idea that some people can identify as neither male or female. That's fine, but not when that turns into the claim that some humans don't have a sex at all, when clearly everyone does /5

X on passports is the first step the state agreeing some people don't have a sex. Why does this matter to women and girls?

Sex based rights depend on everyone having a sex and following rules and customs based on sex /6

Women need to undress in private and in safety - so we need a policy that clearly says NO MALES in women's changing rooms.

Women need access to sports that are fair and safe - so we need rules that clearly says NO MALES in women's sports /7

All that gets undermined if some males can say they don't have a sex - so these rules don't apply to them. They don't even have to try to look like women. Just keep their beard and say they aren't men now! /8

This case isn’t really about an individual’s right to present as non-binary on a passport.

It's using the courts to force the UK to reshape how society operates.

It that's going to change then we all need to be part of that debate /9

We need to understand pros and the cons. The winners and the losers.

This must be done through public consultation and parliament and NOT by order from a court.

Read more here /10

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