Just love the way they argue that a group having members from other groups somehow invalidates all of them. The Scottish trans organisations all enjoy considerable overlap. As is perfectly normal of course, because different groups serve different purposes and different people obviously have different interests. The stupid really hurts sometimes...
Anyway, they can't even bring themselves to name Karen Ingala Smith's actual area of work while libelling her. She is not a sexual violence activist but a campaigner against male violence who centres female victims in her work.
And how laughable to conclude from Twitter how much support anything has in real life. I rather think they're getting carried away with the idea that theirs is the majority view because the echo chamber that is Twitter censors women who want to defend women's sex-based rights.
Professional polling companies randomly sample the population and could therefore claim to be somewhat more representative than Twitter user Helen's wonky maths. And poll after poll over the last two years has shown that support for legal sex self-id stands at a mere 18% or lower and that a large majority of women reject it outright.
So, wishful thinking vs reality. Awkward, really. Smacks of desperation, a hefty dose of it, too.
And once again, as a journalist trained the old-fashioned way, the lack of critical thinking, sceptical inquiry as well as basic research and fact checking is utterly disappointing (even if it's wholly predictable by now). My editor would have torn both those pieces up. But then again, he didn't allow propaganda pieces and op-ed only if they were clearly marked as opinion, not fact.