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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.com
A year has passed since the UK Supreme Court decided that when parliament used the terms “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 it was referring to biological sex, not acquired gender. That seemed clear enough, but some academics appear not to have understood it.
How can that be? And will things be any clearer next month when the government publishes the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s long-awaited code of practice on services, public functions and associations?
To discuss those questions — and the unexpected importance of personal pronouns — I went to see Dr Michael Foran, an associate professor of law at Keble College Oxford. His new book, Sex, Gender Identity and the Law, is formally published by Cambridge University Press on 7 May. You can hear our conversation in the latest episode of A Lawyer Talks.
My weekly podcast is a bonus for paying subscribers to A Lawyer Writes. Everyone else can hear a short taster by clicking the ► symbol on the graphic at the top of this page. And my interview with Lord Hodge, the judge who wrote the ruling, is here.
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By Joshua RozenbergThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rozenberg.substack.com
A year has passed since the UK Supreme Court decided that when parliament used the terms “man” and “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 it was referring to biological sex, not acquired gender. That seemed clear enough, but some academics appear not to have understood it.
How can that be? And will things be any clearer next month when the government publishes the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s long-awaited code of practice on services, public functions and associations?
To discuss those questions — and the unexpected importance of personal pronouns — I went to see Dr Michael Foran, an associate professor of law at Keble College Oxford. His new book, Sex, Gender Identity and the Law, is formally published by Cambridge University Press on 7 May. You can hear our conversation in the latest episode of A Lawyer Talks.
My weekly podcast is a bonus for paying subscribers to A Lawyer Writes. Everyone else can hear a short taster by clicking the ► symbol on the graphic at the top of this page. And my interview with Lord Hodge, the judge who wrote the ruling, is here.