why I read the FT

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The best piece of journalism I've read in a long time, on why we need the awkward squad, like KJK.

OK so that's your interpretation. Your OP makes it sound like it's what he actually wrote.

Very incisive, becoming a TERF has made me less of a coward on other issues. Really helped with personal growth once I knew i was definitely an annoying bigoted middle aged woman. I’ve also developed a very healthy disdain for appeals to emotion.

Off to read. Sadly, quite often progressive Liberals are the most authoritarian.

Er, what? Is this a reverse? We were also flooded with people telling us if we didn't vote Tory/Reform that biological women would immediately cease to exist under a Labour government.

Unsurprisingly, partisan election talk has mostly disappeared now because we are back to the usual work of campaigning for women's rights.

People who think they are right are the most authoritarian. Because they are doing it for good. Not stopping to think that the other side's motivations are the same (mostly).

It makes me worry this ideology might go on forever, much like the abortion debate. It's a conflict of who you think is more important.

Orwell did a good essay on the same thing (unfortunately that's all I can remember)

biological women would immediately cease to exist under a Labour government.
Give them time ...I

i used to love reading the FT when my company subscribed. Back in the day i loved the Martin Lukes column for a bit of light relief.

Off Topic: But. I thought I'd be safe reading that when Harry Potter 6 came out, and there would be no spoilers. But no. Even the FT managed to spoil it (by saying that the bookies around the printing works had stopped taking bets on which character died because so many had been put on XX character. But they named the character. Fuckers)

I liked that too. "Read the room" is one of the most irritating phrases used on social media in lieu of reasoned argument. Who cares what the room thinks?

@Sausagenbacon this is indeed a brilliant piece without mentioning, for example, gender, but the rest of the FT is sadly captured, largely because of its young staff (and liberal milktoastery).

And it’s certainly not retreating in the US and EU.

I think you’ll find that some of us are lobbying our MPs for a change in the Equality Act to differentiate between gender and biological sex. Because service providers are confused and err on the side of caution. We’re also braced for the conversion therapy legislation.