‘As the PP said, in the UK it is typically left leaning women who are fighting to retain the legal distinction between the sex and therefore our sex based rights.
If "men" can get pregnant then how is abortion a woman's rights issue? You can no longer argue that restricting abortion disadvantages women only. We all know it's an issue which only affects females but how do you make that argument without legal recognition of sex. It's really frightening how people cannot see where all this is heading.
For anyone who thinks this is not coming our way you need to wake up.’
Look, there are nuances here. I 100% am not saying trans is not an issue. Be it in sports or other contexts. I do believe a minority of predators will use trans rights as a way to harm women. Predators will use any ‘in’ they can. I also believe some of the TRAs on Twitter etc genuinely hate women and wish us ill.
However, in the wider context they are also on the extreme of the MRA flank and there aren’t many of them with power. We must fight the immediate threat firsts, the ones with the power. We need to see the bigger picture. Saying ‘I will vote for powerful men, who actually have the track record in, and have the power today, to harm women’ in order to prevent some screaming men on Twitter from calling themselves women’ is fucking stupid.
Women of colour like myself (mixed race) who are usually the frontline women to feel the impact of anti women policies feel let down by women, who are often white, voting for right wing governments based on the single issue of trans incursions into women spaces. We are usually the first to feel economic and other hardships.
Focus on the people with power for now and when they are dealt with we can focus on those who wish us harm who have less power to fuck us over. Women of colour are the canary in the coal mine.
Now look where we all are.