Gaystar News article by Anya Crittenton:
'Guardian newspaper tries to stop UK getting world class trans rights
Essentially: do nothing and 'reflect'
(extract)
The Guardian today published a piece from their editorial team about the UK’s Gender Recognition Act (GRA). The newspaper’s stance is essentially do nothing with the GRA and trans rights, and instead ‘pause for reflection’.
While The Guardian says it ‘supports trans equality and believes reform of the law could form part of this’, it also perpetuates harmful stereotypes about transgender people.
Namely, in the article, the editorial team acknowledges dangerous myths about the concerns of ‘male-bodied people’ and not recognizing trans women as real women. (continues)
The Guardian rejects the idea that one of these positions is the right one – and the other wrong,’ it writes. ‘While campaigners for trans rights are entitled to push for laws that they believe advance equality, feminists are entitled to question whether such changes could adversely affect other women.’
Its main argument comes from the fight for women’s rights, while excluding trans women from this narrative.
In a particularly revealing paragraph, the newspaper states: ‘Women’s oppression by men has a physical basis, and to deny the relevance of biology when considering sexual inequality is a mistake.
‘The struggle for women’s empowerment is ongoing. Reproductive freedoms are under threat and the #MeToo campaign faces a backlash. Women’s concerns about sharing dormitories or changing rooms with “male-bodied” people must be taken seriously. These are not just questions of safety but of dignity and fairness.’
This opinion gives credence to TERFS (trans-exclusionary radical feminists). It also lends support to the offensive ideas that trans women firstly, are not real women, and secondly, pose threats."
www.gaystarnews.com/article/guardian-stop-uk-world-class-trans-rights/#gs.cSkBkK4