I’m just going to rant about something I’ve seen time and time again from the trans activist side. Even though they say a woman is anyone who says they are a woman, and the concept of “womanhood” is entirely up in the air, we all all KNOW that they don’t really believe this and that lurking in the background is the default concept that woman= adult human female.
We are in this utterly bizarre situation where everyone actually knows what a woman is, but trans ideology prohibits them from saying and believing it.
But because women ARE females, reality often breaks through and the ideology is entirely abandoned … especially when it is convenient. See Owen Jones wanting to find a woman to be a surrogate for him, or men who don’t see trans women as women for relationship purposes. And the infuriating thing is the ideology is abandoned without even acknowledging it’s been chucked, and by treating women who point this out like trolls.
If pink news really believed the shit it was spouting it would have run the story as “transphobic gay couple conflate sex and gender, demand their child is a “boy”. We would have been patiently told that the couple have made an error , and that sex is actually assigned and separate from gender. They may very well have a little boy or even some other gender flavour entirely. They just have to wait and see.
But instead, pink news have reverted to reality and are ranting that the couple didn’t get a male child (what happened to the complexity and fluidity of sex?) and anyone pointing this out is deleted and blocked.
It makes me so mad, because we don’t even get the dignity of having to argue with interlocutors who genuinely believe what they are saying. Everyone knows sex is real and everyone knows what a woman is, it’s just that we are punished for being frank.