A war of words is beginning to wipe women out of existence, Janice Turner in the Times

"As Jane Fae says..."

Jane Fae? Silly women with their "eggshell skulls" getting murdered in a boring pedestrian way, Jane Fae?

It is a great piece. The bit that stood out was the 38% of women in prison for sex offences are transwomen.

I'm sure this has been done elsewhere in this board much more properly, but I looked up the prisoner numbers, there are 10,000 male prisoners convicted of sex crimes in 2019, and 186 women. In total.

This BBC reality check piece said in 2018 there were 60 trans people in prison for sex offences in England and Wales (out of a total trans prison population of 125). With all the caveats around these numbers - who is being counted as women, whether biological sex or gender is being recorded of a prisoner, the BBC piece says these numbers don't include anyone with a GRC for example.

Even if these figures are ball parks. 54m adults in the UK. 27m males approx, so that is .03% in prison for sex offences, or 1 in 3300. For women, that is .0006% or 1 in 160,000.

How many trans identified people in the UK excluding those with GRCs? Who knows, but I've heard people say up to 500k. Say even sex split. So 60 transwomen in prison for sex crimes is .02% of the biologically male trans population. Or 1 in 5000.

But as Jane Fae says in the article, I wouldn't want to read too much into the figures as I might misinterpret them, and the real risk isn't the threat of sexual violence against women prisoners but creating unwarranted hostility against trans people. Obviously.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-42221629

Gah it didn't copy the comment 🙄

I loved that comment too! Made I larf

Thanks for sharing, a brilliant article.

Just wanted to note this excellent comment.

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Sometimes unreasonable people just need to be told no.

Perhaps trans people should be treated the same way a tantruming toddler is - ignored when they are throwing a fit for no good reason. We ignore the demands to have our language erased, we continue using our language without so much as acknowledging the tantrum. They’ll soon get bored, the same way all tantruming toddlers do when their hysterics aren’t rewarded with attention.

fabulous!

NB I'm not afraid, I'm extremely relieved

The problem with Lamonts statement is the captured will simply state "off course women are free to choose a woman examiner. Transwomen are women!"

Oh no, you see, "for the word gender substitute sex" - that's JL's amendment. They can't I'm afraid, and they can't have the word woman either.

The comments are heartening!

and the nonsense continues.

I know we do not (and should not) want to give up the word women, but I can't help but feel "female examiner" would be more useful. Yes they are coming for "female" too, but its easier to demolish "TW are female" with those committed to the TWAW ideology.

Brilliant article. Thanks for the sharetoken

Just read that brilliant article. Will be emailing the Editor!

Cheers SkeeterP, I think there's no harm in editors hearing directly from readers saying what an excellent job their publication, and a particular member of staff, are doing.

I do think that The Times will have a small but useful uptick in subscriptions due to their exposing of the gender identity ideology to sunlight. It's also an investment in the future reputation of The Times in these times of no-platforming and mis- and disinformation.

Brilliant article. Sums everything up

Brilliant piece.

Before the first Women’s March, which sprang from fears that President Trump would destroy US abortion rights, trans activist Munroe Bergdorf tweeted that to “centre reproductive systems” at the demonstration was “reductive and exclusionary”. Even feminism should not focus on female concerns.

Obliterating biological sex will not help their cause. Already in US high schools female athletes are forced to compete against teenage males who identify as girls. In Connecticut, two trans athletes have dominated track events, breaking girls’ state records, denying female competitors qualification to higher contests. These include Selina Soule, 17, who plans to take her discrimination case to the Supreme Court. What do activists tell such girls? That they must try harder or just suck up their defeat.

The problem for the world’s women is that biological sex is not some abstract idea or inner feeling. From menstruation to menopause, pregnancy to birth, abortion to rape, it is a vivid reality.

Wonderful article.

Brilliant.
Anyone reading that who still doesn't get it, has an agenda.

Wow, succinct article summing up everything. Thank you for posting, @Igneococcus. My only hope is that the pendulum swings both ways but how long do we have to wait for sanity to return?