Looks like the Guardian can't ignore sex vs gender any more

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/02/this-isnt-a-culture-war-uk-women-feel-politically-homeless

A dear son of mine is trans. He cannot explain what it is that makes him “a woman”. He is just “more comfortable”. But I am expected to call him “she”. Make sense of that.

I asked our Labour candidate about his thoughts on women's rights. He looked absolutely terrified, I almost felt sorry for him.

I had to ask several times, very firmly like a teacher, what he thought a woman is. He was desperately embarrassed at me using words like penis and vulva, but eventually managed to stammer out something about adult human females.

No doubt some candidates don't believe in gender stuff but have to toe the party line.

I cant believe they are all leaving it to the last day of twonto acknowledge this huge elepahnt in the room - legions of pissed off women.

I'll add to MissScarletInTheBallroom's list:

It's the young female students away from home the first time, encountering loud, brash, drunk young males in the loos in their halls and being too afraid of genderism to complain.

The only time I get the feeling that, well, yes, there is something actually woman-like about her (and the only times female pronouns come naturally) is with those trans-identified males who are quite clear that they're males. And who are willing to listen. And who seem to have an actual inkling how women are treated by the unwashed masses.

The ones who don't insist on it. Who are willing to see the world from other points of view.

And once I articulated it to myself, struck me all of a heap that it's a sad statement about my stereotypes of men. (It's their own fault!)

So basically, he is "more comfortable" and expects you to go along with it, no matter how uncomfortable or unhappy you are.

Finally

‘This isn’t a culture war’

No shit Sherlock! Not who said it but the press for using the line to undermine women. Politicians and pp on here too

I hope you enforce your own boundaries.
its a crucial life lesson for boys growing up to respect 'no' from a woman, especially their mother.
Afterall this whole movement is based on disrespecting boundaries and manipulating us to lie against our own best interests, and if they but realised it, their own.

So basically, he is "more comfortable" and expects you to go along with it, no matter how uncomfortable or unhappy you are.

More sounds like he just wants to be "trans" rather than sees himself as a woman. I'm so bored with this ideology.

I agree with you - though I’m his father as it happens. Unfortunately the result of enforcing ones own boundaries is often estrangement. His mother is also struggling with how to handle the situation, though she’s more laid back about it than I am.