Looks like the Guardian can't ignore sex vs gender any more

I hope you enforce your own boundaries.
its a crucial life lesson for boys growing up to respect 'no' from a woman, especially their mother.
Afterall this whole movement is based on disrespecting boundaries and manipulating us to lie against our own best interests, and if they but realised it, their own.

A dear son of mine is trans. He cannot explain what it is that makes him “a woman”. He is just “more comfortable”. But I am expected to call him “she”. Make sense of that.

A dear son of mine is trans. He cannot explain what it is that makes him “a woman”. He is just “more comfortable”. But I am expected to call him “she”. Make sense of that.

Single sex spaces and sports concern me but I do think that some trans women are women - it’s not a line in the sand for me.

Which ones?

A dear friend of mine is trans.

Absolutely this.

Although I would say more than working class, it's marginalised women and children who suffer the most.

It's the women serving a short prison sentence for stealing money to buy drugs who end up incarcerated with Karen White.

It's the women from Muslim communities who used to be able to swim down at the local council run swimming pool because they had a women only hour once a week, but no longer can because "women only" no longer means women only.

It's the children who have grown up in the care system after being abused at a very young age who are particularly susceptible to the idea of being trans and have no loving and properly informed adults looking out for their welfare.

It's the women who have been raped and abused by men who finally get referred to a rape counselling service after a long wait, for whom not attending a particular group or refusing to see an opposite sex counsellor means they get no help at all because trans inclusive/mixed sex support is all that is on offer.

It's women who are struggling to make ends meet and absolutely cannot afford to lose their jobs, who feel powerless to kick up a fuss if their employer informs them that they will now be sharing changing facilities with male colleagues.

It's parents who have no possibility of sending their children to anything other than the nearest state school, who cannot pull their kids out and send them somewhere else if the school is encouraging them to identify as the opposite sex.

It's women with poor English or learning disabilities who miss out on important information about cervical screening because the information is addressed to "people with cervixes" and they don't realise this is relevant to them.

It's the women who have suffered male violence who self exclude from public toilets and changing rooms after encountering a male bodied person in there and having a panic attack.

It's young lesbians who are being coerced into accepting male partners in the belief that their preference for female partners as opposed to female identifying partners is inherently transphobic.

It's autistic teenagers who are being led to believe that the reason they feel like such a square peg in a round hole is because they were born in the wrong body and transitioning will fix that.

It's not the Stella Creasys and Nicola Sturgeons and Emily Thornberrys and Theresa Mays and Emma Watsons and Jameela Jamils of this world, who are incredibly unlikely to find themselves in any of these scenarios and are therefore alright, Jacqueline.

Absolutely this.

Although I would say more than working class, it's marginalised women and children who suffer the most.

It's the women serving a short prison sentence for stealing money to buy drugs who end up incarcerated with Karen White.

It's the women from Muslim communities who used to be able to swim down at the local council run swimming pool because they had a women only hour once a week, but no longer can because "women only" no longer means women only.

It's the children who have grown up in the care system after being abused at a very young age who are particularly susceptible to the idea of being trans and have no loving and properly informed adults looking out for their welfare.

It's the women who have been raped and abused by men who finally get referred to a rape counselling service after a long wait, for whom not attending a particular group or refusing to see an opposite sex counsellor means they get no help at all because trans inclusive/mixed sex support is all that is on offer.

It's women who are struggling to make ends meet and absolutely cannot afford to lose their jobs, who feel powerless to kick up a fuss if their employer informs them that they will now be sharing changing facilities with male colleagues.

It's parents who have no possibility of sending their children to anything other than the nearest state school, who cannot pull their kids out and send them somewhere else if the school is encouraging them to identify as the opposite sex.

It's women with poor English or learning disabilities who miss out on important information about cervical screening because the information is addressed to "people with cervixes" and they don't realise this is relevant to them.

It's the women who have suffered male violence who self exclude from public toilets and changing rooms after encountering a male bodied person in there and having a panic attack.

It's young lesbians who are being coerced into accepting male partners in the belief that their preference for female partners as opposed to female identifying partners is inherently transphobic.

It's autistic teenagers who are being led to believe that the reason they feel like such a square peg in a round hole is because they were born in the wrong body and transitioning will fix that.

It's not the Stella Creasys and Nicola Sturgeons and Emily Thornberrys and Theresa Mays and Emma Watsons and Jameela Jamils of this world, who are incredibly unlikely to find themselves in any of these scenarios and are therefore alright, Jacqueline.

I hear you about the way the Tories have impacted working class people, but I would say the opposite. That buying into the ‘trans women are women’ fiction is a luxury belief that middle class women indulge in to ‘be kind’ from a privileged position of somebody who believes they will never have to share a prison cell with a male sex offender, for example.

It’s working class women who suffer the most from this damaging ideology.

Not relevant to this debate but some inaccurate reporting there:

'About a quarter of the women who got in touch said they were still undecided, among them Alice, from the marginal seat of Mid Bedfordshire, where Labour could oust the Conservatives despite their current majority of 24,664.'

The current Mid Beds MP IS a Labour MP! He won it in the by-election last year.

I have sympathy with the gender critical debate and agree there is much nonsense talked, and that men can never be women. But I do think that voting only in the basis of a single issue is a luxury, and out of touch with the very many working class women for whom this issue is the least of the issues that matter to them politically.

I have sympathy with the gender critical debate and agree there is much nonsense talked, and that men can never be women. But I do think that voting only in the basis of a single issue is a luxury, and out of touch with the very many working class women for whom this issue is the least of the issues that matter to them politically.

Sorry. I will do better. I’ve made a donation to Stonewall’s Gendered Butterflies and will prostrate myself in front of the rainbow flag for the rest of the day.

I brought it up on the doorstep. Candidate was cautious but didn't tell me I was a TERF. And this is in one of the wokest constituencies of the lot.

A dear friend of mine is trans.

My tiny Netherlands Dwarf rabbit is not a geneticist. He does however know what a female of any species is. He likes my husband, but he loves my female dog and me with such devotion it makes my husband nervous around him. Almost like sex is really obvious. Or perhaps my teeny tiny bunny is a fascist transphobe, who can tell?