Thanks, OP. Just when I felt like giving up over the Labour Party’s efforts to alienate every sane voter, this story has lifted my spirits. Despite the fuckwits who rule us, I felt a little tremor of pride in Britain.
Lots of inaccuracies, as I’d expect. *Imported from American feminist circles during the 1970s, the [GC] argument is largely disowned in the United States. But it remains stubbornly persistent in Britain.”
Lots of exciting and uplifting ideas went back and forth duringthe 70s. But even I couldn’t claim that we 70s feminists discovered that mammals came in two sexes, and don’t get to choose which they are.
According to Jacques, the opposition to self-ID relies “on the conceit that trans and nonbinary people should not determine their own gender identities”.
‘Conceit’ is a handy little word there, intended to trivialise the GC case — incorrectly used of course, as it means an elaborate or fanciful metaphor.
No, we’re not playing the ‘gender identity’ game. We’re simply saying that you can call yourself what you like, but if you were born male you remain in the male SEX and you have no right to enter women's single-SEX spaces.
What surprised me is that Jacques calls the Guardian “transphobic”. WTF? Shows how far outside reality Jacques has strayed. I actually felt sorry for the Guardian, damned by one rare Opinion piece that tried to be a bit even-handed.
And yes, British and proudly sane, like most of the rest of us. And, I suspect, like most ordinary Americans and Canadians if they dared speak up.