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The Word ‘ Mother ’ Is No Longer A Gender-Specific Term….
….Government lawyers told the High Court yesterday.
Ben Jaffey QC, acting for the Department of Health, made the claim during a court hearing as a female-to-male parent attempted to be registered as the father of his child, despite giving birth to the baby.
If the legal bid is successful, the child would be the first to have no legally recognised mother.
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What utter tripe! Confusion reigns! Poor kid.
Ben Jaffey QC, acting for the Department of Health, made the claim during a court hearing as a female-to-male parent attempted to be registered as the father of his child, despite giving birth to the baby.
If the legal bid is successful, the child would be the first to have no legally recognised mother.
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What utter tripe! Confusion reigns! Poor kid.
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Just because someone augments their body to appear as something differently does not change the biology of that person.
That person gave birth to the child as a fully functioning woman and should absolutely be defined as the mother.
What that person then goes on to chose for themselves does not change the first.
That person gave birth to the child as a fully functioning woman and should absolutely be defined as the mother.
What that person then goes on to chose for themselves does not change the first.
The person making this argument was arguing against the claim that the unnamed trans man should be recognised as the child's father. In other words, he's trying to make their claim look as ridiculous as possible.
There's nothing in the claim so far as I can see which characterises motherhood as gender-neutral. The person in question has legally transitioned to become a man, and in accordance with that, wants to be registered as the child's father. He obviously does view mother as being a gendered word - that's why he's putting this claim in the first place. If he didn't, he wouldn't care about being legally a man and also registered as the child's mother.
There's nothing in the claim so far as I can see which characterises motherhood as gender-neutral. The person in question has legally transitioned to become a man, and in accordance with that, wants to be registered as the child's father. He obviously does view mother as being a gendered word - that's why he's putting this claim in the first place. If he didn't, he wouldn't care about being legally a man and also registered as the child's mother.
Also, the parent in this case seems to agree with you. They think motherhood should be reserved for people who are women, and according to the link he is legally a man.
You can object to that if you want to. But then we're into the argument about whether people should be allowed to legally change gender at all.
You can object to that if you want to. But then we're into the argument about whether people should be allowed to legally change gender at all.
//She gave birth - men have no womb and cannot. //
not yet, maybe, but it's coming...
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which will put paid to one of the more amusing sequences from "Life of Brian":-
not yet, maybe, but it's coming...
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which will put paid to one of the more amusing sequences from "Life of Brian":-
Keep calm and carry on, 'The Ministry' had this all sorted out decades ago -
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