In March, a decision from the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) used the words “a person with a vagina” to refer to a sexual assault victim instead of simply writing “a woman.” It was reminiscent of the infamous United States Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in 2022, during which she couldn’t define the term “woman.” It also harked back to a 2023 decision by the SCC, in which the court stated that the terminology around gender identity continues to evolve beyond the “binary of ‘male’ or ‘female.'”