Two Guardian pieces

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One is clear, concise and tightly argued:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/28/erase-biological-definition-sex-gender-self-identification-trans-transgender-feminist-case

The other is 🤔 or possibly 😡
www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2022/jun/28/nadine-dorries-offers-the-illusion-of-easy-choices-while-trans-athletes-pay-the-price

Jonathon liew makes tom daley look like einstein. A complete and utter fuckwit of staggering proportions.

God not Jonathan Liew again!

Or how about quantifying the effect of – let’s say – spending years in a body you do not want, undergoing often painful and traumatic transition, being demonised for simply existing and living under the daily threat of harm? Shall we run the numbers on that, guys? The wrong kind of science? Too much science?

yes, Jonathan. The problem with that idea is too much science.

On Tuesday Dorries will meet the governing bodies of several major British sports and tell them to follow Fina’s lead in instituting an indefinite ban on all transgender athletes from competing in women’s swimming competitions.

How do you tell that no one actually believes TWAW and TMAM? Because everyone forgets that trans men exist. And as long as they're not doping, they will be free to compete in women's sports. The fucking misogyny of every single question about transgenderism ignoring trans men.

Why the rush? And – given that no trans athlete has ever represented Team GB and the number of trans women in elite sport remains tiny – why now?

erm, perhaps because it's wrong, and the numbers of men in women's sports are steadily increasing, and because it should never have fucking been allowed in the first place?

they must be subjected to snide jokes and base insults about genitalia.

maybe when bepenised people stop making such an issue of their own genitalia - you know, ensuring that 1 in 5 UK women have been raped, that Ukranian women are being targeted for trafficking, that most women have been sent unwanted dick pics, that loads of little girls are flashed at, that everytime most of us walk through an alley or a subway we'll see dicks graffiti - maybe then, women can stop focusing on who has what genitalia. I'm sure most of us would like not to have to care.

Meanwhile 375 trans people across the world were murdered in 2021

And 81,000 women and girls across the world were killed in 2020, around 47,000 of them (58 per cent) died at the hands of an intimate partner or a family member, which equals to a woman or girl being killed every 11 minutes in their home.

So no, we don't intend to stop there. We will continue to support and uphold women's rights and protections everywhere we can.

How thw fuck did that piece of drivel make it into a newspaper? There is zero logic.

So transwomen are more likely to be poor poor and subject to violence so this should be taken into account. So, we now need a handicap system, that is different for every aport and takes into account sex, gender, socio-economic status, liklihood of having experienced violence.

Sure, that will work.

This! ☝