That has really, really boiled my piss. The implication that the the lack of debate is due to failings on both sides, and that we should all just be more reasonable. And reducing the fundamental issues that are driving that (non) debate to sound like minor technicalities that should be compromised over.
Fuck. Right. Off. you smug bastard, and to the biased reporting that is masquerading as a balanced article.
This particularly annoyed me:
“I think it’s disappointing: these are tough issues and I think we don’t resolve them by pausing the process,” Isaac said. “We need to look more carefully at how other countries apart from the UK and the US have dealt with these things. France and the Nordic countries have given greater rights for trans people to change their birth certificates. It may be these are more liberal environments where there is less polarisation, but they haven’t had the same toxic debate, and we need to learn from that and work out how we can replicate that. We as a society would suffer enormously if in a decade’s time we were still having this debate.”
Which basically reads as - the solution is to make it easier for trans people to legally change their sex, and we just have to find a way to drag those backward thinking feminists into a more liberal way of thinking.