@Thehumblesnail
Grace is very smart, and will be difficult to debate - don't kid yourselves. As a public-school educated teenager, Grace took part in various World debating championships, and has since spent a career discussing conceptually difficult ideas in public. Grace is a good polemicist, doesn't lack verbal style or self-confidence, and is pretty ruthless.
Does she want to sell books? Of course. In fact, Grace currently seems desperate to be sued, or engaged with in other ways that might stir up controversy, in an attempt to corner the trans-saviour market and boost their public profile. She tried to rile Kathleen Stock into biting but that doesn't seem to have worked so now she's trying to use other GC figures to advance her career.
I genuinely believe that smart, well educated, used-to-debate people can get the upper hand in any debate. Politicians do it all the time.
But personally, I don't understand how anyone could ever win a debate over this, given that it has the departure from reality as its premise.
But more than that, much, much more than that, even if your linguistic skills are giving you an advantage in a debate, the very nature of what you're arguing for is what I would like to be put into the public domain.
Even if you win or dominate, let's see what you claim is your prize.
Who on earth can remember the first person who said not all women have a cervix? But now, every politician, gets asked that.
Whatever Grace Lavery asserts, every politician, policymaker, pundit, will be asked whether they agree with it.
I couldn't give a toss about the likes of Lavery. I do care about who is writing prison policy, and putting children and men in the same changing room. And they have to agree with someone like Lavery, in order to do it. So let's all see exactly what Lavery thinks.