All I'm hearing is yeah you can be gender critical as long as you shut up about it hmm
Yes, and we've heard that demand several times.
It's really weird. It won't stand up long-term.
It has to be because they cannot, ever, be unequivocal, otherwise it would blow the whole thing up. They have to skirt round the actual issue and hope no one nails it down for them.
That's why she wouldn't, unequivocally, say that J. K. Rowling is transphobic, only saying that because of her platform...because she's influential, she can't say things that are harmful... right up to implying that if she says, publicly, that she wants a female only refuge, the implication is that all transwomen are predators. Otherwise known as a massive strawman.
And on that note, I wish Emma had drilled down a little further.
Because it's a central strand to the argument - that you're not allowed to say that men are a statistical risk.
Yes, she was full of contradictions, and slippery as a bloody eel covered in oil.
No you can't change sex, but transwomen are literally women. We're not saying you can't say mother, we're saying you have to have an additional, inclusive word. (Which is unequivocally untrue). We're not saying you can't have women only refuges, you just can't say so out loud because it's implying that transwomen are a risk. We're not saying that lesbians are prejudice, we're just not acknowledging that lesbianism is a sexual orientation, just a preference.
The slipperiest answers I think I've ever heard.
And I'm not buying this cosy, giggly, I don't know anything about that bollocks, either.
And I'll be willing to bet that there were some conditions attached to that interview, one of which would be you can't ask me for the definition of the word woman. Or lesbian. Because there won't be an interviewer alive, on hearing the phrase yes I believe transwomen are literally women, who wouldn't then ask for your definition of the word.