Trans Former Judge Plans To Challenge Gender Ruling At European Court

[naomi24]

The UK's only ever judge to publicly say they are transgender is planning to take the government to the European Court of Human Rights over the Supreme Court's ground-breaking ruling on biological sex.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qw2149yelo

 

 

The ECHR.  Here we go again.  

[youngmafbog]

Good, that should be the final nail in the coffin of the EHCR (aka Blairs wifes money spinner)

[naomi24]

Bet it won't.  

[Old_Geezer]

No court outside this nation has any say in the matter.

(Unless a weak government bends over backwards to try to ruin our nation further.)

[Old_Geezer]

I get the impression that the BBC are using the wrong pronouns again.  Maybe more legislation regarding truth in reporting, is needed ?

[jackthehat]

Men just won't be told, "No."

[Rosetta]

JTH is right , this is men again telling women what their rights are. I have yet to see women to men trans trying to dictate matters

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt most men are as worried about having women who think they are men around than many women are regarding having men who think they are women around. The symmetry is broken in this type of thing.

[fender62]

it would make a mockery of uk courts, but under labour it does not suprise me, it should not even be up for debate.

[albaqwerty]

It wasn't a ground breaking ruling, they just confirmed what the law already was.

I am not a cis woman or a biological woman, I am not a subset, I am a woman. 

If the ehcr say otherwise, they are wrong.

 

[naomi24]

It wouldn't be the first time they've been wrong, Alba.  That organisation isn't fit for purpose.

[mushroom25]

does the ECHR have primacy over domestic judiciary?

[chelle7272]

I thought the Supreme court has primacy over the ECHR

[fender62]

chelle7272, quote: While UK courts are obligated to consider ECtHR decisions, they are not bound by them and can diverge if they have a good reason.

[albaqwerty]

True, Naomi, on both counts.

Why on earth are these men so keen on encroaching on women's spaces, whether it be sports, loos or changing rooms. They seem to be mentally challenged and should be treated in a comfy, padded room.

[naomi24]

Presumably because they won't admit that they're men, alba.

[andy-hughes]

Apart from an infantessimally small number of genuine cases, who appear to accept their rights as they are, this nonsense is being driven by a tiny minority of attention-seeking morons who are determined to bend the world to fit their arrogant assumptions of 'rights' that simply upset and inconvenience the entire population. 

[douglas9401]

Robot in disguise.

[New Judge]

Here is an explanation of the ECHR, provided by “Liberty”:

“The ECHR is the European Convention on Human Rights. It was drafted in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Holocaust in an attempt to protect the people from the State, make sure the atrocities committed would never be repeated, and safeguard fundamental rights.”

I wonder how many people, in the aftermath of WW2, envisaged the Convention being used to campaign for men, masquerading as women, to be allowed access to women-only areas or to compete in women’s sports?