Women-only jobs can exclude trans women, equality watchdog rules



Women-only jobs can exclude trans women, equality watchdog rules

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/16/women-only-jobs-can-exclude-trans-women-equality-watchdog/

by langhua1

25 comments
  1. >The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said that if an employer wanted to advertise for a woman-only job, that must only mean biological women or those who have received a gender-recognition certificate.

    >It would therefore be discriminatory to extend the definition of “woman” to men who self-identify as women.

    gender-recognition certificate?

    🤦

    who certifies your gender? the same people that looked at Caster Semenyas genital area?

    Is it done infront of a panel of medical professionals, like some kinky reenactment of the Sharon Stone Basic Instinct interogation scene?

    _OK now, please spread them… Yeees, thats right, take your time… OK, thats it, hold, hoooold, please… What do you say, Bob? I’m not sure, Steve… Mary, any opinions? Well, boys, if thats what your’re supposed to be looking for in a woman, I’m out._

    _cue Seinfeld bass track_

    _fade to black_

  2. What are women only jobs. Does this hold for men only jobs too? Is there any?

  3. I think mammographers in the UK can only be women, but correct me if that has now changed. That is to do with a high % of women saying they wouldn’t attend screening with a male mammographer. I don’t know if trans women are allowed to do the role. It is for the screening part only. Patients can be seen by any gender clinician for subsequent treatments. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1078817423001761

  4. On a serious note, I think the author meant “jobs that are expected to be carried out by women”. A decent example would be those places where you go to shave your pubes, and you wouldn’t want a guy to be doing that.

    I apologize but that’s the best example I could come up with. Still a pretty shitty article.

  5. Could people just stop being dicks to each other for five frikkin’ minutes? Please?

  6. ‘Equality’ in nut shell.
    I am always wondering how they are using the words for exactly opposite things

  7. So you can be a woman, but you can’t be a female? What kind of medieval timeline are we living on?

  8. I am losing my faith in y’all with your comments. Let the far right rise and go backwards a hundred more years, you deserve it! Go Europe!

  9. I mean, makes sense, since the whole promise of women-only jobs is discriminatory.

  10. Predatory men and their handmaidens when women say they just want tiny, non intrusive, necessary space for themselves: hmm. How can I get through this

  11. The headline is strongly editorialized.

    The article clearly says:

    >The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said that if an employer wanted to advertise for a woman-only job, that must only mean biological women or those who have received a gender-recognition certificate.

    So, trans women are included. Just not people who self-diagnosed as trans women. But that’s normal, people can’t self-diagnose medical conditions for the legal benefits.

  12. Well, if something is [something]-only, it’s discriminatory by definition, so what’s the surprise?

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