Annasgirl I just read it and am disgusted.
"the only people whose rights are up for grabs are trans and non-binary people"
If this were true, I would be 100% on-board with protecting their rights...as a decent human, I am 100% onboard with protecting the rights of anyone.
It is mendacious to infer that the women's rights are not at risk.
I am (and I suspect Jennifer O'C also) a highly privileged person.
I am highly educated, in a professional job role, living in my own home, with access to clean water and healthcare.
That puts me in the top 1% of people who have ever lived.
If my mother were in a different country, I might have been aborted before birth.
In some countries, as an older sister of a boy, I might have been prostituted, or sent into low paying work in my early teens, to subsidise the education of my brother.
In some places, my parents would not have invested in my education at all.
In some places, I would be a grandmother, as my daughters would have been married off by now.
In many countries, I would not have survived pregnancy (I needed medical intervention in my pregnancies).
I cannot abide porn...for the reason that the 'right' to express sexuality, or be titillated, is less important than the rights of women who are used and abused to produce porn.
My salary, as a highly qualified professional, who has heavily invested in training, is nowhere near what it would be if I worked in a "male" profession.
Sitting in meetings, it is routine for my voice to be ignored. I am quite assertive, thank you, I have "leaned-in" (before anyone starts blaming me for the lack of being heard).
I could go on (and on and on and on).
Women's rights are not rock solid anywhere in the world.
Unfortunately for people who identify as trans, the push for their rights has been hijacked by a group which would put women in my country back into the position of so many other women around the world . Because? they hate women.
Jennifer briefly acknowledges this when she says [Rowling] " was threatened on Twitter with “cancelling, punching and death”."
My daughters' right to be recognised as a separate biological sex from men, their rights, are being eroded by the "trans rights" movement.
Their right to play sports with other women, and not be injured by XY people.
Their rights to education in a single sex school, which study after study says leads to better educational outcomes for them.
Their right to bodily privacy in single sex bathrooms.
Their rights to be protected from predatory, boundary pushing men.
Lord God almighty, if you are an Irish woman, over the age of 30, you cannot deny the reality and history of our country's treatment of women.
Lets absolutely support trans people, but not at the expense of women.