One of the things I find peculiar in all of this, is that for years many if us, whether knowingly GC or feminist or not probably knew at least one old school transsexual - I knew a couple in my 30s, both older, both "feminised" as far as practicable for the times, both of whom I just accepted as the person they were, without thinking much more beyond it other than seeing them apparently comfortable in their own lives and hell, none of my damn business pretty much.
Only when activism and the movements started does it seem women were suddenly forced to defend themselves from accusations of things that hadn't most likely even crossed their minds for the most part (sweeping generalisation admittedly based on my own experience). Women didn't start this fight, nor did they want it to happen, but faced with changes to language, the commercialisation, the demands that we censor ourselves and play nicely when actually we are being called upon to be complicit with our own erasure, not to mention the threats to safeguarding issues and the interference between parents and children from groups with agendas that may well not be in good faith at all, it wasn't as if we could say nothing as demanded...... so many of us tried to be kind, tried to live and let live, and then suddenly nothing was good enough.
JKR wrote thoughtfully about womens experience and also acknowledged that it is a human of any stripe issue as well, but her qualification is that she is a woman speaking her truth, her perspective and her opinion, which in this alleged Utopia of inclusion being touted deserves as much recognition and consideration as anyone else.
Instead we had tantrums. That's the best way I can describe it. Tantrums that ignored every scrap of nuance, and hideous abuse that just kept the divide growing. I can't help but wonder what the heck the end game is? Full on sex wars? I'm a pacifist on principle, but on occasion my militant bone rears its head.....but the constant appeasement is so damn exhausting.....