I can't help but think that Chloe may well become the tipping point. This is the first time that a very clearly male bodied person has been presented to the British public as a woman. A soldier, no less.
She's a soldier, just in case anyone missed that, and therefore automatically one of the good men and by extension, now a good trans woman. She can't possibly be a threat to women.
It's been so well done that you would think it had been planned.
If we let this go passed without comment, we are going to lose our ability to protect biological women. This gives us an opportunity to have a discussion without all the old baggage but simply on whether the public believe this soldier is a woman, whether we should distinguish between transwomen and women, whether there remains a genuine need for women to be identifiable as a group. We can genuinely commend Chloe on her achievement whilst making a rational case for her to be identified as a transwoman and not a woman.
So what do we do ? Do we let this go by or do we speak out to the media, to our MPs ? Do we start a petition asking for an assurance that women will not be erased ? Do we ask Maria Miller to publicly state her position that 'woman' is simply an identity unlike skin colour, disabled status, religious affiliation, age etc ? Do we simply have the discussion within our own circles ?
Do we ask the public to consider why Caster is vilified for not resembling a woman physically and yet Chloe is exalted for not resembling a woman physically ?
There's an opportunity here if we're willing to take it.