Years ago I was reading an interview with Jan Morris, the travel writer. She had an anecdote about trying to get help in an airport but being ignored because, you know, woman-adjacent, so she used her loud, male voice and got attention.
And my thought was how strange that Morris could say she was a woman but call on male privilege when she wanted to.
And then when Germaine Greer opposed a trans woman as a member of her all-female college, and the terrible things said about GG for attempting to protect an important, woman-only space.
But decades before that, a friend of mine had minor gynaecological surgery and was place in a ward full of drag queens having “gender reassignment surgey”. It was all very odd and the thought I had when I visited her, was that those men believed they could do better woman than real women.
I have a young relative who has decided he’s a woman. I wish him happiness and safety, but I have deep concerns about the damage he’s doing to his psyche and physiology. I think his mental health issues have never need adequately dealt with and his “transition”, is a
way of being a non-masculine man in a world where gender expression has become so binary. I don’t talk about this to his family because they support his view of himself and I have no wish to cause hurt feelings.
Of course the transwoman who vandalised my house, terrorised my pets and threatened me with serious physical harm didn’t help moderate my GC views!