Indeed, Obi Wan Kenobi was the first persona he took on, and demanded to have respected by the courts etc. He also went by Mighty Almighty, though I’m not sure if that was concurrent with OWK or subsequent; or indeed if those were his “preferred pronouns” rather than a name.
He also led 100 inmates in falsely pretending to be Jewish in order to have kosher food.
That anyone would buy into the idea that this disturbed, extremely violent man was remotely sincere in his profession to be a “woman”, when he was clearly doing all he could to disrupt/game the system, is really quite startling.
But then of course that’s where genderist logic takes you.
Believe people when they tell you who they are. No gatekeeping. No one would ever lie about this for any form of gain, etc etc.
Not that I think it would have made any difference if he had been sincere; he still wouldn’t have been a woman IMO, whether it was just him saying it or a GRC panel.
But it’s extraordinary that when a man like Burns made such an outrageous claim, instead of recognising that he was massively taking the piss, and dealing with him accordingly, people in authority rushed to validate him - even to the point of putting him in a woman’s prison, as they were about to before the furore around the Adam Graham/Isla Bryson case made that politically inexpedient.
And that is a direct result of elevating those deceptively referred to as “transgender women” to “sacred caste” status, of framing so-called transphobia as the worst possible blight on society, as these trans remembrance initiatives apparently seek to do.
Most particularly it’s framed as in infinitely greater ill than misogyny, misogyny which while already rampant, is only exacerbated and deepened by what is in effect a male rights movement.
The utter disregard and even contempt for the genuinely vulnerable women prisoners who would have been put at risk by and paid the price for this monstrous decision is soul destroying to contemplate.