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Female association depends on naming sex: The question now before the UN
In this episode, Emma and Lucy discuss AAWAA's submission to the UN Human Rights Committee on its draft General Comment on freedom of association. They cover why women's associations depend on organising around biological sex rather than a generic identity category, the gap in the draft's membership test that leaves sex-based criteria exposed to being labelled discriminatory, and the risk that ordinary advocacy for sex-based protections gets read as hostile discourse. They close with the Lesbian Action Group and Giggle v Tickle cases, two Australian rulings that show what happens when the law…
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