The University of Glasgow Gender and Sexualities Interdisciplinary Network warmly invites you to its 2025 Pride Month Feminist Café on June 13, 11am-1pm. We will be welcoming Professor of Law and Social Theory Aleardo Zanghellini from the University of Reading who will deliver a talk “Rationalising exclusion: conceptual, metaphysical and interpretive claims about trans (wo)manhood”.

In the recent For Women Scotland judgment the Supreme Court held that 'man' and 'woman' for the purposes of the Equality Act should be understood in biological terms. This talk will critically consider the judgement in light of the function and nature of anti-discrimination law, as well as philosophical considerations concerning both the concepts of 'man' and 'woman', and the nature of trans manhood and womanhood as (real) social kinds.

First published: 1 June 2025

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