left wing Those in thrall to radical gender ideology routinely engage in mental gymnastics to reference the immutable reality they seek to undermine.
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replaced The public health section of the 2022 budget uses the terms “mother” and “person giving birth” together. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) doesn’t use the word “woman,” Selected Instead, it’s for “people who are on their period.”
Social constructivism appears to be having similar effects north of the border.
A member of the Supreme Court of Canada, appointed by Prime Minister Trudeau, recently took issue with the lower court’s use of the word “woman.” Judge Sheila Martin said it would have been less confusing for court officials to refer to female rape victims as “vaginas” in cases that did not involve cross-dressers or straight men.
Critics have thoroughly derided the High Court of Canada’s use of woke language conventions, especially when dealing with serious cases like rape.
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The court held that two separate, unrelated cases simply because “the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction based on an alleged error of law in the trial judge’s assessment of credibility and trustworthiness.” The case of rape was taken up.
According to the Court of Appeals, “the trial judges erred in law by making inferences about human behavior that were not based on the evidence.”
One of the applicable cases
christopher james crookrape conviction. Crook reportedly found a woman “intoxicated, lost, and in distress in downtown Vancouver one night.” He took her girlfriend to his own home, where he claimed her girlfriend spilled water on him and knocked her unconscious with her pants still around her ankles. The victim testified that she woke up to find Kruk actively assaulting her with her clothes off.
The trial judge stated: ”[The complainant’s] Although the evidence lacks details, she claims she is confident she is not wrong.she said she felt [Mr. Kruk’s] The penis was inside her and she knew what she felt. In other words, her sense of touch was working. It is very unlikely that a woman will misunderstand her feelings. ”
The Court of Appeals noted that the trial judge in Kuruk’s case erred in concluding that it was unlikely that a woman would misunderstand what it felt like to be raped.
‘Brew out[ing] confusion’
In a ruling Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada reversed the Court of Appeal’s decision and upheld the original conviction at trial.
Judge Martin agreed that the trial judge’s “conclusions were based on an evaluation of plaintiff’s testimony,” but disagreed with that language.
“The judge’s choice to use the word ‘woman’ was unfortunate and may have caused confusion,” Martin wrote.
The judge, a former recipient of the YWCA’s Women’s Advancement Award, made sure to use her favorite expression in the same section, writing: Trial judges must have the right to conclude that they are unlikely to make a mistake. ”
The female judge does not appear to have provided any explanation as to why the word “woman” is confusing in a case involving a man’s alleged rape of a woman. However, it has been suggested that she may have been trying to address what she called “inappropriate generalizations” between women in general and the victims.
Nevertheless, the use of the term “person with a vagina” by Trudeau’s appointee marks the first time such use has been made in a Canadian judicial decision.
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Following Friday’s ruling, the High Court and Martin, the “man with a vagina”, were thoroughly ridiculed.
Conservative MP Melissa Lanzmann reacted to the ruling: write“No, there is nothing confusing about the word ‘woman’. It is common sense. In any case, it is not hateful, bigoted, wrong or unfair. This is complete nonsense. , nothing moves forward. That’s not ‘progress.’”
X User Wall Street Silver I have written“Is Canada okay? We’re a little worried about you guys.”
TikTok’s library tweeted“Rest in Peace Canada.”
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highlighted Two days after the ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada posted a potentially confusing message on social media praising the female judge.
“On March 10, we celebrate International Day of Women Judges, which recognizes the importance of women’s full and equal participation at all levels of the judiciary,” the post with an image of Martin said. Stated.
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