Daphne Preston-Kendal

The two fundamental planks of today’s decision are:

1. the Gender Recognition Act 2004 did not change the meaning of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, although the relevant section of the GRA on its face did not contain any limitation on the application of a certificate in determining who is a ‘man’ and who a ‘woman’

2. the Equality Act 2010 inherited from the SDA 1975 this definition wholesale, since its purpose was to consolidate existing law

I should really learn not to reply to @cwebber’s toots in public

depol, Aufruf zum Handeln, dringend/heute!

@ivory The Bluesky app has a useful feature where it will remind you to change the language tag metadata on your post if it detects (using some language-detection library, I guess) that it looks wrong for the language you’re typing in. Could this feature be added to Ivory? I keep forgetting to switch the metadata from DE to EN and back when writing in a different language :-(

News!

Starting in February I’ll be working on Oaken, a new, security-oriented dialect of Scheme for Guile, for @spritely and funded by @nlnet!

If I’d thought about it earlier I would have done a daily Advent calendar of things I would change if I could do Scheme again from scratch. @cwebber would be fully horrified at least once a day every day before Christmas