Truly brave and stunning piece by Sarah Phillimore: What My Artificial Leg Taught Me About Artiface

[GrinitchSpinach]

Brava, Spero! You have been and continue to be such an important, expert voice challenging gender identity ideology in the law.

This is going much further into the personal nature of your own challenges, and it’s something none of us could ask of you to share, but you did. Actual fucking stunning courage there.

My lack of leg does not prove that humans exist on some exciting spectrum of available legs. We are a bi-ped species. Any deviation from that does not disprove the binary — it is defined by reference to it.

medium.com/@SVPhillimore/what-my-artifical-leg-taught-me-about-artifice-a64ca6f3b658

Of course you must absolutely say what you think and of course I am very sorry to think any words of mine caused you pain. But you were not the only person to think it and say it - I was sent a message via Twitter asking me to amend it and I explained why I wouldn't and repeated it here.

I hope you understand why I won't change it. I think it needs to be said. Far too many able bodied people have not the slightest clue about the daily indignities suffered bu many disabled people.

Thank you, I think you are very brave and very wonderful.How does this even need to be debated.?