Dawn Butler derided in Spectator

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There is a scathing article in The Spectator by Brendan O'Neill which takes aim at Dawn Butler's latest incoherent ramblings. He makes the point that her statements are anti Scientific and that it is astonishing that an allegedly serious contender for Labour leader is making these ludicrous assertions in public. He concludes with the following:

Who in their right mind would vote for a party whose prospective leaders think sex isn't real, biology is a myth and violent men should be allowed to live with women?

And kicks off with this:

Imagine if a politician went on TV and said ‘The Earth is flat’. Or ‘Man didn’t really land on the Moon, you know’. We would worry about that politician’s fitness for public life. Well, Dawn Butler has just done the trans equivalent of that. She appeared on Good Morning Britain yesterday and said babies are born without a sex. That is easily as loopy and anti-scientific as saying the Earth isn’t a sphere

blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/02/dawn-butlers-transgender-madness/

That's an excellent piece - hits the nail on the head succinctly.
(I read the Grauniad faithfully for over 30 years. Now I subscribe to the Speccie.)

I now subscribe to the Speccie too. Brendan O'Neill, with whom I disagree on so many things, has been absolutely brilliant on this. He is so clear, so unequivocal, so forthright. I don't think he would describe himself as a feminist and yet he articulates the feminist position perfectly.

Me too, ex Guardian, love The Spectator

It's a great piece. This snippet is particularly pertinent...

Feminists are completely right to describe this as a misogynistic idea. First, because it reduces womanhood to little more than a pose, a posture, an identity you can adopt with mere words, with mere declaration. And secondly because it would allow biological males — yes, there is such a thing, Dawn — to enter women’s spaces, including their changing rooms, domestic violence shelters, and even all-women party shortlists. Even women’s prisons