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I think trans issues are really important, but they affect such a small minority of people of any gender. Isn’t it more important to deal with, say, the shitshow of a cost of living crisis that affects everybody, than a trans issue that affects a few thousand people? This is ‘common-sense’ washing. Making the Tory’s look like they understand everyday people so they can carry on lining their privileged pockets with public cash at the expense of the rest of us. Johnson is very good at this. He lost his way a bit with the pandemic, because he was forced to address a real issue and couldn't find an alternative non-issue big enough in anyone’s mind to hide behind. But now he’s going to gain support for being behind female-at-birth women? He doesn’t even know how many kids he has, he’s created a string of single parent families behind him and is pretty close to the definition of patriarchal misogynist. And he’s going for the vote of ‘biological women’? Bloody hypocrite. This is purely about dividing the left. He doesn’t care about women, assigned a birth or not, as his relationship history more than shows (to be fair he doesn’t much care about anyone. Which is equality of a sort, I suppose). I’m sorry to say, it will probably work.
No. They affect everyone both male and female but mostly female.
Fundamentally having a stance which is denying material reality and forces others to also deny that reality takes us into 1984 territory of being forced to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears. Thus it breaks down democracy - it is authoritarian in nature because of what it forces us to do in denying something so fundamental. Law cannot function without clear definitions based on things which can be proven with empirical evidence. Gender as an identity cannot be proven and there is no third gamete - i.e. there is no third sex. This affects everyone.
Bringing in policy which accepts TWAW results in the breakdown of safeguarding, it actively enables rape and sexual abuse to occur (see cases in prisons and NHS - I just hope this can get rolled back before a massive).
It results in women losing jobs and positions if they speak out. It results in women's sports becoming pointless as it'll just be full of males identifying as women or why are all male records in any sport requiring physical strength and speed so much faster than female ones? It results in men taking prizes which were there to recognise women and the separate difficulties they face. Women are not men with less testosterone.
It's not a fringe policy as it affects ALL women, our daughters, our mothers, our grandmothers and everyone.