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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

actually proud of Scotland for once, not the government but the people

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a brilliant catch-22 situation.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

What do they mean by "biological" women? There are different characteristics to biological markers: gonodal, genetic / chromosomal, anatomical, hormonal. All can be manifested differently.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Awesome protest, but I'm not sure about the blurb ontop.

Do right-wing people deny that trans women can have breasts? I don't believe that is true in general. And do public decency laws specify that breasts can't be shown, or women can't show nipples?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends entirely on the language of the law, not what right wing people think. The UK isn't like the USA in this regard, or at least Scotland isn't ...yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whether right wing people would censor the image or not is up to what right wing people think.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Love the message, but the blurb isn't correct. Police couldn't not arrest them because it would define them as a woman, outraging public decency and similar laws don't require specific genders.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had a look further into this, because I wanted to better understand what factors might cause an act to be considered indecent exposure (or outraging public decency). This led me to some guidance on naturism and other non-sexual nudity, from the crown prosecution service.^1 It appears that having an "intention to cause alarm or distress" may be relevant for protests like this — arguably the entire point of the protest is to use the shock value of the nudity as a protest.

That being said, I think it's a bold move and possibly an effective protest. Even if public indecency laws are gender neutral, it would still be a strong message if any of these women got arrested for this — the reason why these women are capable of causing alarm or distress by going topless is because these are "female presenting nipples" (to use a heavily-memed phrase from the Tumblr porn ban era)


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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Legendary behavior. Bigots can choke on it

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