Faux concern, bigotry disguised as rationality and a reliance on anomalies and made up anecdotes. TERFs use exactly the same tactics as the alt-right.
This post for some reason more than any other on this thread represents to me the dangerous 'divide and conquer' dynamics currently at play in this mad decade.
It IS gas lighting and designed to make citizens, women (and men) doubt themselves and their wisdom, knowledge and experiences. It is designed to rip apart the very fabric of society as we know it.
It IS literally saying black is white and white is black, post truth, fake news and utterly undermining of civil society as we know it.
Saying men can ACTUALLY and REALLY be women has no roots or anchor in physical reality, it is make belief, spinning fairy tales.
The question is who benefits from this trend? Who would be interested in putting this on the policy agenda over and above misguided individuals who are sadly caught up in it their personal struggle with their identity?
Who or what benefits from general society increasingly doubting its critical faculties and its experience of biological reality and civil society?
Once we have acquiesced to believe #fake news rather than relying on our critical thinking and lived reality what other taboos will be put on the policy table which we won't dare to question and challenge because we don't trust that black is black and white is white anymore?
Being gender critical is the way forward, let people wear what they like and pursue professionals and hobbies that suit their personalities. But do not pretend a male can ever be female and vv. FGS.
Luckily there are increasingly people all over the world who won't let the wool be pulled over their eyes.