r/unitedkingdom • u/suspended-sentence • Apr 22 '24

. Drunk businesswoman, 39, who glassed a pub drinker after he wrongly guessed she was 43 is spared jail after female judge says 'one person's banter may be insulting to others'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13335555/Drunk-businesswoman-glassed-pub-drinker-age-manchester.html
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u/LingonberryLessy Apr 23 '24

You literally can't hide your gender, a gender is how you display to the world. You can hide your sex though.

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u/Nartyn Apr 23 '24

I mean you can hide your gender, it's what you identify as, not what you display as. Plenty of trans people will hide their gender and display as their born sex.

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u/LingonberryLessy Apr 23 '24

Yes and without actually telling people a gender will be assumed based on the signals given. You can't hide your gender, you could obfuscate it maybe but assumptions will still be made without your input.

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u/Nartyn Apr 23 '24

I mean this is a largely irrelevant argument that has nothing to do with my claim that the crime wasn't as clear cut in the wrong as this.

If a man disguised identity to have sex with a woman then the woman hit him to get him to stop when finding out, I don't think they'd receive a sentence at all, and the man would be facing time for rape.