This is great news, but far too few people in Canada even know what happened to the legal definition of Woman in 2017. Far too many are 100% clueless about the reality they are living in because they stick to a single news source. 😪
Encouraging news -- some more reasons to think the tide is turning.
Though I wonder what you and/or Amy Hamm mean by "biological sex". Too many people haven't progressed much past folk-biology or the Kindergarten Cop definitions -- boys (males) have penises and girls (females) have vaginas. Most people haven't a flaming clue what is actually meant by "biological sex".
The upshot of which is the erstwhile reputable biological journal "Cell" asking, apparently in all seriousness, "Is 'sex' a useful category?" ICYMI, my open letter to them objecting to their quite unscientific claptrap:
Well, to be really clear, my union is not fighting this on gender critical grounds (at all). Just on academic freedom grounds, totally apart from any particular content. Which is fine: that's their role and their concern.
Amy's case is the one to watch, I think, about the content of the views: she is being persecuted *by her own union* on the basis of her views. Everyone in Canada who is worried about gender ideology should be watching her case really really closely.
Thanks for the clarification. Though, as you put it, far too many have been badly dealt with by "due process" for "expressing criticism of gender ideology" -- Maya Forstater and Kathleen Stock for examples. And I expect you've seen the recent RLS post on the same theme:
Though I think there's less problem with the concept of gender itself, than with the misuses of it. At best, gender is more or less accepted as a bunch of sexually dimorphic personality traits of which there are a great many. Something which another Albertan, Eva Kurilova, more or less accepts:
This is great news, but far too few people in Canada even know what happened to the legal definition of Woman in 2017. Far too many are 100% clueless about the reality they are living in because they stick to a single news source. 😪
Encouraging news -- some more reasons to think the tide is turning.
Though I wonder what you and/or Amy Hamm mean by "biological sex". Too many people haven't progressed much past folk-biology or the Kindergarten Cop definitions -- boys (males) have penises and girls (females) have vaginas. Most people haven't a flaming clue what is actually meant by "biological sex".
The upshot of which is the erstwhile reputable biological journal "Cell" asking, apparently in all seriousness, "Is 'sex' a useful category?" ICYMI, my open letter to them objecting to their quite unscientific claptrap:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/is-sex-a-useful-category
Well, to be really clear, my union is not fighting this on gender critical grounds (at all). Just on academic freedom grounds, totally apart from any particular content. Which is fine: that's their role and their concern.
Amy's case is the one to watch, I think, about the content of the views: she is being persecuted *by her own union* on the basis of her views. Everyone in Canada who is worried about gender ideology should be watching her case really really closely.
Thanks for the clarification. Though, as you put it, far too many have been badly dealt with by "due process" for "expressing criticism of gender ideology" -- Maya Forstater and Kathleen Stock for examples. And I expect you've seen the recent RLS post on the same theme:
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/dr-haim-vowed-to-first-do-no-harm?utm_medium=reader2&publication_id=225618&triedRedirect=true
Though I think there's less problem with the concept of gender itself, than with the misuses of it. At best, gender is more or less accepted as a bunch of sexually dimorphic personality traits of which there are a great many. Something which another Albertan, Eva Kurilova, more or less accepts:
https://substack.com/@humanuseofhumanbeings/note/c-57989826
Even if she's still reluctant to read the writing on the wall.
But hopefully your case and similar ones will help ensure a more rational adjudication of Amy's.