I’m sorry you feel victimised by your biology, however despite losing absolutely no sleep about it, that’s not an excuse to victimise other people.
I'm not victimising anyone.
I'm saying that there has been some complete and utter nonsense on this thread, which is representative of the overly intellectualising on the subject which demonstrates the sheer level of privilege and out of touchness with reality which is fuelling frustration. All it does is just drive the point home that sex matters and that anyone who says it doesn't fundamentally doesn't get the problems to begin and are close minded to considering problems because it's easier to dismiss them as somehow not real / imagined. And then when this is said the response is a flounce and 'look how victimised I am' from the over privileged quarters. Which only adds to a vicious circle of making these intellectuals (who are overly keen to use and advertise their supposed academic authority on the subject) look even more out of touch. The legal illiteracy that accompanies it, is even more baffling in this context because it relies on going from a supposedly intellectual position to one that's incoherent, unworkable and makes no sense because 'be kind'. Meanwhile the very people most affected by gender ID - vulnerable women and children aren't treated kindly, concerns about them are dismissed as irrelevant and sex is redefined as a social construction!
You are just an example of the problem. It's actually NOT about you but a pattern of this same old crap where we are told we don't matter, how we feel doesn't matter and our concerns don't matter, but the only Very Important People are men and the intellectual class that buy into it.
We are so over this. There's lots of intellectual people who are educated in many other areas who can see the glaringly obvious issues on display and the problems with virtue signalling.
Virtue signalling has a long and glorious history amongst the privileged and ways in which language removes power from the masses.
We could talk about the Church and the choices of language within England and how it created barriers. Latin was the language of the church whilst French was the language of the landed well off. Old English was the peasant language. Not knowing the other languages was yet another way to keep power. It was actively discouraged and prevented from translation to English so that the church could 'control access to god'. Attempts to do so in various other languages resulted in ex-communication.
We could talk about art history and how virtue was encoded into painting which only the educated could understand thus creating a hierarchy and status around art and art creation. This was virtue signalling in perhaps it's most literal sense.
What we see happening today really isn't new. It's something of a rehashing of this and a demonstration of one group trying to impose their dominance over another. Except today we have greater ability to identify this and hold people doing it to account. The appeals to authority and then after having said 'i am the authority on this because I hold greater status' followed by a 'I'm so hard done by and such a victim of unfairness' don't really wash precisely because there's been this attempt to disempower and discredit anyone saying 'hang on a second this is utter nonsense, can you please address these various issues relating to exploitation and material reality we have lived experience of which you, from your ivory tower, are so keen to say don't exist'.
You don't get to play the 'im the expert and authority on this subject' card followed by the 'im the poor victim' card because either you have higher level status we don't have for which you have a degree of accountability and responsibility to deal with as part of that status OR you are a poor, powerless, vulnerable individual who has a lack of status in debates and is being unfairly criticised. It can not be bothered by the nature of the beast.
The fact you try not to be tied to this point of privilege really is the most telling point of all on this thread.
There a whole bunch of educated and non educated women (who are still highly informed) who have been deliberately shut out or marginalised on conversations by those who hold power and status. They've been told their experience and knowledge and concerns are not important and they aren't qualified to comment. That's not going to continue. It's an abuse of power and status and it's identifiable.
This is also why a certain woman who does now, in her older years, have power and status is just so hated because she's helped other women and legitimised their concerns through the system itself. Because she holds power to account through the democratic channels by using the pillars of liberalism rather than the tools of authoritarians (like language and the church and symbolism in art to virtue signal and retain status) to marginalised and disempower.
Thing is, this is 2025. We know this shit.