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Our old friend and extreme porn advocate Jane Fae has been commissioned by Diva magazine to pontificate about the Maya Forstater case. You'll all be amazed to hear Jane thinks it doesn't matter very much. See interesting analogy below, concerning an overexcited and overindulged daughter. Jane, of course, has a daughter and chose the night before daughter's AS level exams to break the news of Jane's transition, so Jane knows all about picking your moment to tell your daughter potentially upsetting news.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/18/gender-dysmorphia-daughter-dad-woman
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There is a familiar energy to yesterday’s case. It’s been a long day at the fair. Mummy and daddy have spent loads of money – and half the afternoon – on the hoopla. Eventually, their efforts pay off. As they collect their prize, their precious princess is over-joyed.
“Mummy!”, she proclaims proudly: “a goldfish!”
She doesn’t mind that it’s a lop-sided, incontinent goldfish. Or that all the other little boys and girls got one too. Today, she is a winner.
“Shall we tell her?”, daddy whispers in the car home.
“No”. Mummy shakes her head. “Let her have her dreams. For now.”
As goldfish, so legal verdicts. Yesterday was a minor but otherwise inconsequential victory for transphobes and evangelicals. But unless the tribunal decides that personal belief gives you the right to hassle work colleagues and clients it is a hollow one, destined, in time, for that great toilet bowl in the sky.
Which, after all, is the ultimate destiny awaiting goldfish and bad laws everywhere.
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