Not everyone has a gender identity.
Everyone has a sex.
Gender identity should not supercede sex. In all areas of life where SEX matters. Sports, prisons, refuges, all these previously single sex female spaces. In fact anywhere where a previously single sex space becomes mixed to the detriment of women and girls.
A transwomen's sex is male. They might not like it, they may desperately wish it weren't so, but that doesn't change reality.
People think they have had full reassignment surgery. No. Self ID has a lot to answer for. The general public think we're talking about Hayley Cropper. But it's Barbie Kardashian. It's Karen White. And thanks to self ID you can't accept one and deny another.
Stonewall and the like would have done well to campaign heavily for third spaces.
Single use enclosed facilities in additon to single sex, safe dedicated prison wings, open sports categories. They had the money. Women would have been behind them all the way. Myself included.
But it was never about safety, equality and recognition. It was about validation. Women being used as validation tools. Human shields. To beat into second place, to usurp and replace in every facet where women have had to spend years, campaigning, fighting, carving out something for our own only for it to be snatched from us just like that.
Women have been lied to. We never won anything, because it's all been taken away from us on nothing more than an indistinguishable feeling from the sex class that have treated us as lesser beings for centuries.
And whilst that's been going on, whilst the handmaids chant their little TWAW and Be Kind mantras, along come the US right and take away their women's bodily autonomy.
Congratafuckinglations.