JTC News Flash - Split me up Scotty: Police policy warps gender norms

In an exemplary move toward clarity, the High Court in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has ruled that transgender women are women. This important legal shift helps relieve discrimination against those whose human rights were traditionally filtered through the lens of a being a third, lesser, gender, giving them the same rights as other women. In a notable decision, the judge rejected the notion that womanhood could only be tied to those who may have had a capacity to give birth, thereby outright rejecting the idea that only natal females can be women.

Meanwhile, in the lands of India's colonial forebears, a blighted chaos had reigned since a now well known Supreme Court judgement, and a subsequent alarmingly biased interpretation by the laughably named Equality and Human Rights Commission, unleashed a wave of poorly-informed gatekeeping against not just trans people, but cis women too.

The UK Parliament has now declared that trans women are women if they work there, but not if they are just visiting, but when the history books are written, there will perhaps be no confusion greater than that being shown by the Scottish police force.

Tune in as red and freckles dive into what the heck just happened.

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