Modern Law Review article on self-ID (gender critical perspective)

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Great article in Modern Law Review (open access) by Alessandra Asteriti and Rebecca Bull. Worth a read. It's a response to an article by Alex Sharpe.

Gender Self-Declaration and Women’s Rights: How Self Identification Undermines Women’s Rights and Will Lead to an Increase in Harms: A Reply to Alex Sharpe, ‘Will Gender Self-Declaration Undermine Women’s Rights and Lead to an Increase in Harms?’

www.modernlawreview.co.uk/asteriti-bull-sharpe/

I loved this line: "We argue that self-ID creates a presumption of access to female spaces, instead of a presumption of exclusion, even for evidently male individuals."

Fab - being lazy, but do you happen to have the link to the original article by Sharpe?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2230.12507

Excellent article

Dismissing concerns about removal of safeguards as conjuring up a bogeyman reveals a profound misunderstanding of the impact of male presence upon women and girls. The threat of male sexual assault is not a bogeyman but a reality. Removing women’s ability to withhold consent or to voluntarily accept the risk of assault strips her of autonomy and holds her real fears of sexual assault in contempt. We, like Kathleen Stock object to letting ‘even small numbers of females be the automatic collateral in sweeping social changes such as those proposed.’

Fantastic article. I love that every statement is referenced. Going to bookmark this one.