So many great comments under that opinion piece! I was surprised they let them through.
***
"This rigid, unyielding hierarchy of natural over unnatural, of biology over feeling, should terrify anyone progressive"
"In the absence of evidence that trans rights encroach on anyone else to their detriment"
There is quite a contradiction in this column.
***
The only problem with trans rights is the trans activists. Most people, male or female, straight or gay, don't care whether or not somebody is trans. They do care about trans activists punching women, trying to have feminists no-platformed, and generally behaving like the most boorish type of man.
***
I'm not convinced that this is a valid comparison, or even if it were, that it would be particularly helpful.
Neither do I think that any favours are done in denying that a tension, if not outright conflict exists between the rights of, for example, a transgender woman using a ladies toilet, and an objecting non trans woman using the same toilet. This is the difficult one to wrestle with, which may be why the author chose to raise the infinitely easier to deal with 'guide camp' argument.
Let's have the debate. But let's have it without the holier than thou 'You're the wrong type of tolerant' hijackings.
***