My god.
It was… factual. Rational. Fair. Ever-so-slightly, plausibly-deniably snarky in places. ('But a statement made by Social Work England shows how partisan that organisation’s position was. It said that gender-critical people “are unlikely to accept that transgender people who have socially and/or medically transitioned from one sex to another, are as matter of fact, biology and reality members of their chosen sex”. Given its treatment of Meade, it seems clear that SWE believes people can indeed choose their sex – not only as a matter of legal registration, via the gender certification process introduced by the last Labour government, but as a matter of “fact, biology and reality” – even if they have undergone no medical treatment and their transition is a purely social one (clothes, name-change and so on). It is the core of gender-critical belief that this is not true.')
My gob is smacked.