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Apr 17 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
This is a long thread about why th e lesbian intervention was so important to the FWS ruling, and what it means for lesbians. The case was to decide whether or not men with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) should be considered “women” for purposes of the Equality Act 2010.
The Act protects women because of our sex, and lesbians because of our sexual orientation. (It had been established in an earlier case that men without a GRC are not “women”.)
First though, a couple of my favourite quotes from the judgment, to give you a flavour of it. The first
