Its such a very clear demonstration which every woman, employer & policy maker should be aware of.
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"Sue, Linda and Michael have a long talk about this one night and decide to go to HR. They are well aware that they are being hugely discriminated against on the grounds of sex, even though Michael identifies as a man. They schedule a meeting.
The HR manager tells them she's privately sympathetic, but that there's nothing she can do, and that she can't really speak to them as a group because they're not representative of either men or women. (She's also been warned about what will happen to her if she supports them.)
They try to discuss it with Jo, and also the fact that he's messy in the loo and makes them very uncomfortable. He goes to HR and accuses them of jealousy and transphobia. It's upheld again.
Tony tells Sue that she either resigns after giving birth or he will fire her for discrimination.
Sue, Linda and Michael realise that their rights as a sex class, including the right to organise collectively, have been removed.
What is happening is that sex, the oldest and most intractable axis of oppression, is being ignored by policy makers. (It's also the axis that society goes to the most trouble to conceal, because addressing it would require truly fundamental changes.)
So shifting the category boundaries like this without considering sex actually introduces a sex hierarchy into the category 'woman'.
Women become a subordinate subgroup of our own category. Male women are treated as representative, and are permitted to define women, but women cannot define or represent ourselves. We can't even have a meeting without men.
Not only are we pushed off all the gains we have made in the last hundred years, but our ability to organise to regain them is removed. Patriarchy triumphs again.
Except it doesn't, because women are much, much cleverer than the patriarchy gives us credit for." (continues)