Thinking some more about the Hodge judgement and 'immutable binary biological sex'. Clearly at the time of Corbett vs. Corbett part of Ormerod's judgement against April Ashley was based on that. She was referred to as 'an accomplished female impersonator' for example and her marriage as voidable. - ThreadSky

rozkaveney.bsky.social • 14 hours ago

Thinking some more about the Hodge judgement and 'immutable binary biological sex'.

Clearly at the time of Corbett vs. Corbett part of Ormerod's judgement against April Ashley was based on that. She was referred to as 'an accomplished female impersonator' for example and her marriage as voidable.

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rozkaveney.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It's not as if the ECHR and the Blair Government did not consider biological factors during Goodwin Vs UK, and the discussions that led to the GRA which, by allowing trans people heterosexual marriage clearly superceded Corbett Vs Corbett.

rozkaveney.bsky.social•14 hours ago

On the contrary the discussions accepted that scientific knowledge was inconclusive, that sex and gender were complex and nuanced and scientific consensus nonexistent.

rozkaveney.bsky.social•14 hours ago

There was a consensus that it would be unjust to leave the rights of trans people floating in some third space void. That human rights could not wait for some improbable final resolution of scientific controversy.

rozkaveney.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Implicit in the GRA was that the change involved in gender reassignment was about civil status, the right to respect and the right to privacy and family life and did not depend on biology.

rozkaveney.bsky.social•14 hours ago

We have even less scientific certainty about 'biological sex' in 2025 than we did in 2004 which makes it an astonishingly shaky foundation for determining anyone's rights and civil status.

rozkaveney.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Hodge may lend the Court's authority to the conservative idea of sex as simplistically binary and immutable but that doesn't make that idea valid science and contradicts the post Goodwin Vs UK consensus that Ormerod was overturned.

theangelremiel.bsky.social•14 hours ago

and by the same token (as this was before same sex marriage) meant that married trans people were told that they would need to be divorced for their gender to be recognised.

rozkaveney.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Indeed, that's the Government's justification for keeping the spousal veto lest a hostile wife or husband find themselves inadvertently gay married.

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