Great article about trans issues in the New Statesman

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www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/05/what-gender-anyway

Very thoughtful and carefully argued.

Thanks for sharing that. A very interesting read.

Great read, thanks. Articles like this are more likely to plant doubts in the minds of those who unthinkingly swallowed the transactivist line up to now than the angry ones (much as I sympathise with the angry ones).

But as Sarah S. Richardson explains in her book Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Female

Also author of the book, Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome

There have been a few thoughtful articles about this, but they're not getting the oxygen they deserve.

Also this one in the Morning Star.

Amazingly, Sarah Ditum, who wrote the New Statesman article, has said on Twitter that she has not had a lot of abuse, to her surprise. Maybe the tide is turning?

I wonder if many of the women who were supporting genderism thought that it would never actually happen? A sort of rebellion and way of calling other people bigots but that would never really come to anything,

Now Obama and the U.S. government are backing the notion that gender identity is self defined, are they maybe a bit freaked out?

I didn't like it. It was badly laid out, with no clear argument.

Good article in the Morning Star I thought.

Here's another good one opinion.injo.com/2016/05/256010-no-transgender-bathroom-debate-not-equivalent-blacks-civil-rights-fight-1960s/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=ods&utm_term=ijamerica&utm_content=journal

The Sarah Ditum piece is fascinating, thanks for posting

Yes, I thought the morning star article was excellent

According to this article, the big US chain Target are being boycotted "ever since the CEO changed the public restroom policy to allow patrons to use any bathroom they choose, according to their gender identity."^

The morning star is getting tonnes of abuse and bleats of 'hateful transphobia!' on its Facebook page. The good thing is these voices are outnumbered by intelligent, reasonable commentary from women.

Fab article from Miranda Yardley.

www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-8244-The-trans-conundrum-what-is-the-real-meaning-of-gender#.V0Ojq_krLIW

Oh dear

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/people-to-be-asked-about-gender-identity-in-census/

Now the census is falling for the "I am what I say I am" rubbish.

I saw that - on the Wright Stuff, ironically, making a change from them using stuff posted on here!
That is worrying.

The telegraph article is a wind up. Many of the words have no actual meaning and can be interpreted in a number of ways.