Woman wins women's prize

[pachyderm]

www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/04/non-binary-trans-author-nominated-for-womens-prize-for-fiction

Oh wait, she's trans nonbinary and doesn't identify as male or female even though she is clearly female!

FFS at this utter nonsense. I feel like I'm trapped in an unending episode of Brass Eye.

At the risk of setting off previous arguments again, there was a piece about this on Radio 4's Front Row last night. A journalist called Vic Parsons (who seems to be involved with The Pool...) did in fact criticise the prize committee for not thinking through a defined policy in advance and not being clear.

She also said that if they include one 'enby' person - she didn't use that word, to be fair - in a women's prize , logically they ought to include all. Which would mean 'assigned male at birth' people (she did say this - the M word wasn't uttered either by her or the interviewer).

She ended up by referring to the patriarchy and saying that there was still a need for women's prizes, as there was for best actress awards in the Oscars, for example.

It was quite an interesting listen. There was a lot of tiptoeing around, much use of woke terms, and some cheerleading for 'inclusiveness', but the overall message was more nuanced and critical than I'd expected, tbh.

My cynical self wonders if this is just a way to identify ones self as a different writer, something interesting for others to write about

Not sure about it being "interesting" but the cynic in me wonders that on a list which is already quite heavy on women of colour and/or non Western European situations does this give the author something to differentiate themselves?

Anyway here they are. They are the one on the left wearing the Gucci dress.

www.vogue.com/article/families-changing-the-world-vogue-february-2018-issue

Not sure about it being "interesting" but the cynic in me wonders that on a list which is already quite heavy on women of colour and/or non Western European situations does this give the author something to differentiate themselves?

So in January 2018, this individual was both posing in a Gucci dress as one of two sisters, and writing an article about how 'It had been five years since I figured out I was transgender'.

How come the person who said 'My friends and family know I’m not a woman' wasn't up in arms about being misgendered in Vogue?