Apologies for the negativity, especially in these increasingly miserable times! But having been kicked off twitter for the crime of replying ‘ok groomer’ to someone spitting ‘TERF’ at a woman who had crawled before the cult (after giving up her career) - I’m feeling very despondent about it all. I fought this tooth and nail for 2.5yrs, and sometimes it seems it’s all been for nowt.
When I see pronouns in the bios of previously sane people, previously feminist women, previously respected scientists - I can’t help but think this is never going to go into reverse. Who is ever going to remove those pronouns? Is my DH ever going to be told be DOESN’T have to add his pronouns at the bottom of every email?
Are the sixth form colleges my DD is applying to ever going to remove questions about ‘gender identity’ from their application forms?
There are so many horrors in all of this, but for me the numbing ubiquity and normalisation of stating pronouns is almost the most dangerous of all.
Leading on from this is the acceptance even in medicine and law that only is there such a thing as ‘gender identity’ - but that It should trump biological sex in almost every conceivable circumstance.
Obviously we can’t give up. But DAMN!