In fact, the legislation which enabled the world’s first system of legal gender recognition was passed a decade before Dicey was writing, and was in use at the absolute latest within about thirty years

Like they’re building towards a masters-based limit break

Oh no, what was the cutoff?

Pleased to have beaten you to the punchline by eleven minutes

I would interpret ‘don’t worry about it’ as meaning ‘I didn’t have that point in mind when I wrote the question, and if I had I’d have been more careful about how I expressed this point’. You might get more joy discussing the point in abstract terms or away from this particular question.

[Everyone disliked that.]

You people who do things like having your back waxed, your arse lasered etc, are all such generous, selfless people. My view is that if it’s happening on the side of my body that I’ll never see then I literally couldn’t give less of a shit.

You may have missed that this is literally the system that we already had. It wasn’t enough. It never is. There is no *enough* where you’re negotiating with hate or bigotry.

It’s a claim that purports to be grounded in bodily differences, yet refuses to recognise the role hormones play in what a body can do. The bigots track my park runs anyway, so perhaps they’d care to analyse my performance over time

This is what the conflation of free speech and academic freedom looks like