{"id":59310,"date":"2025-04-17T07:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=59310"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:53:28","slug":"there-is-hope-the-british-judgment-that-defends-women-against-woke-delirium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/04\/17\/there-is-hope-the-british-judgment-that-defends-women-against-woke-delirium\/","title":{"rendered":"There is hope: the British judgment that defends women against woke delirium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, the left has been promoting what seems to be an endless succession of irrationalities and delusions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/17\/the-j-k-rowling-case-this-is-the-dictatorship-that-the-gender-ideology-is-establishing\/\">The J.K. Rowling case: this is the dictatorship that the gender ideology is establishing<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/03\/20\/gender-ideology-against-biology-this-is-how-they-try-to-demolish-our-democracy\/\">Gender ideology against biology: this is how they try to demolish our democracy<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>An inquisitorial wave arising from the dogmas of the far left<\/big><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, <strong>the left has not been alone in this process:<\/strong> both the so-called centrist movement and some conservatives have absurdly given in to <strong>nonsense such as claiming that a man who claims to be a woman should be legally recognized as such<\/strong>. This irrationality consists of putting a person's desires above biology, <strong>with serious consequences for the entire society and especially for women<\/strong>, who suddenly see how men who claim to feel like women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/02\/19\/trans-law-heavy-fines-for-not-allowing-trans-men-to-access-womens-locker-rooms-in-spain\/\">gain access to women's changing rooms, under threat of heavy fines<\/a> against those who resist.<\/p>\n<p>These absurdities did not come out of nowhere: they arose from a current of thought, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/03\/20\/gender-ideology-against-biology-this-is-how-they-try-to-demolish-our-democracy\/\">gender ideology, born in the extreme left<\/a> <strong>with the declared objective of dissolving the family as an institution<\/strong>, as the Soviet communist leader Alexandra Kollontai openly stated in her work \"Communism and Family\" (1920). This crazy ideological current has given rise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/17\/the-j-k-rowling-case-this-is-the-dictatorship-that-the-gender-ideology-is-establishing\/\">inquisitorial processes such as those suffered by the British writer J.K. Rowling<\/a>, author of the Harry Potter novels, for daring to contradict the dogmas of that ideology.<\/p>\n<p><big>The warning that G.K. Chesterton made almost 100 years ago<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The British writer <strong>G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) already predicted what would happen<\/strong> with the advance of some of these absurdities in his time. Let us remember that Karl Marx (1818-1883) was one of the pioneers in this leftist aspiration to liquidate the family institution. In a famous quote, <a href=\"https:\/\/afterall.net\/quotes\/gk-chesterton-on-doubting-reason\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in an article published in 1926, Chesterton stated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Reason was self-evident before Pragmatism. Mathematics were self-evident before Einstein. But this scepticism is throwing thousands into a condition of doubt, not about occult but about obvious things. <strong>We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four<\/strong>, in which furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, <strong>in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure<\/strong>, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>The British Supreme Court upholds the biological definition of woman<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Faced with this decline in common sense and freedom of expression, <strong>many have lost faith in democratic institutions<\/strong>. However, there is still reason for hope. Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/supremecourt.uk\/cases\/press-summary\/uksc-2024-0042\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the UK Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the biological definition of woman<\/a>, in the face of claims that any man who claims to be a woman should be recognized as such.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/supremecourt.uk\/cases\/judgments\/uksc-2024-0042\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The full judgment in UKSC\/2024\/0042 can be read here.<\/a> <strong>The judgment includes statements that many now consider to be nonsense, as Chesteron warned<\/strong>, but these statements merely state the obvious. After reviewing British discrimination law, the judgment states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThese provisions recognise that <strong>biological men cannot become pregnant<\/strong> and that no comparison can therefore be made between the case of a sick man and a pregnant woman, both of whom need a period of absence from work.\u201d<\/em> (137)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe protection afforded by these provisions is predicated on the fact of pregnancy or the fact of having given birth to a child and the taking of leave in consequence. Since <strong>as a matter of biology, only biological women can become pregnant<\/strong>, the protection is necessarily restricted to biological women.\u201d<\/em> (177)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<strong>The repeated references in these sections, to a woman who has become pregnant or who is breast-feeding only make sense if sex has its biological meaning.<\/strong> These plain, unambiguous words can only be interpreted coherently as references to biological sex, biological females and biological males.\u201d<\/em> (178)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSince <strong>only biological women can become pregnant<\/strong>, the protection for service-providers is limited to \u201cpregnant women\u201d.\u201d<\/em> (185b)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Second Division of the Inner House recognised the force of this manifestly obvious conclusion in relation to provisions related to pregnancy and maternity. The Inner House concluded that <strong>since pregnancy is a matter of fact which hinges entirely on biology, these provisions do mandate a biological meaning of sex<\/strong> (paras 61 and 62 of the judgment).\u201d<\/em> (189)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>The courage of judges who know what they are risking<\/big><\/p>\n<p>What I have just cited are just a few examples of what the judgment affirms, based on British law and jurisprudence. <strong>It is certainly sad that we have reached the point where a court has to remind us what a woman is<\/strong>, as this indicates the degree of irrationality into which a portion of society has fallen by embracing the dogmas of gender ideology, <strong>but it is also worth celebrating that there are institutions as important as the Supreme Court that dare to confront this tide of irrationality<\/strong>, especially considering that judges are human beings and know they risk being singled out and stigmatized.<\/p>\n<p>We must never forget that <strong>opposition to gender delusions is not merely an ideological cause<\/strong>, one worth taking a stand for whether one is a conservative or simply disagrees with the views of the left. Furthermore, <strong>we are facing a battle in defense of democracy and our civilization<\/strong>, because this corrosive gender ideology is attacking the foundations of both, with increasingly worse consequences for our freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Image: Dzianis Vasilyeu.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, the left has been promoting what seems to be an endless succession of irrationalities and delusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[10401,24256,10678],"class_list":["post-59310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-gender-ideology","tag-supreme-court-of-the-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:53:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}