The UK supreme court is currently addressing this ancient riddle, one that
has perplexed the greatest minds throughout the ages...
It was known as the sphinx: a terrifying hybrid with a lion’s body and a human head. According to the legend, the sphinx was sent to guard the city
of Thebes by the goddess Hera who wanted to punish the citizens for some ancient crime. It perched on a nearby mountain, and whenever anyone
attempted to enter or leave the city it would pose a riddle. If the
traveller failed to answer, he or she would be devoured, but the riddle
was so confounding, so esoteric, so abstruse, that even the greatest intellectuals of the day soon found themselves reduced to snacks for the
mighty sphinx.
And what was this riddle? What was the question that foxed even the
sharpest of minds? It was simply: “what is a woman?”
And now, a hearing at the UK’s supreme court has taken place to solve the sphinx’s riddle once and for all. The campaign group For Women Scotland raised the case in order to challenge the Scottish government’s contention that the word “sex” in the Equality Act includes men who identify as
female and hold a Gender Recognition Certificate. We can expect the
results of this hearing over the next few months.
And yet I’m sure most of you are thinking to yourselves: “How will these judges possibly answer such a metaphysical conundrum?” And you’re not alone. Many valiant and learned individuals have fallen in the attempt.
Take a look at this from a group of representatives for Australia’s Department of Health…
https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/what-is-a-woman
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