Thread by @wanderingwomb1

@LogicalMarcus I always said TWAW because I understood it as a courtesy to treat trans women who had transitioned so as to be read by society as women to alleviate gender dysphoria AS women - not that they were literally female & the very definition of woman should be rewritten to include males

@LogicalMarcus When we were told you don't have to transition to be trans, that woman is now simply a belief system, material reality is irrelevant, a woman is 'anyone who identifies as a woman' (brexit means Brexit anyone?) How can we define women's rights if we can't define who is a woman?

@LogicalMarcus I thought supporting trans rights was about equality & freedom from discrimination. Then I was told that being a woman is only & exclusively a matter of gender identity & public provision provided on the basis of sex must be provided on the basis of self-declared gender identity

@LogicalMarcus When the definition of 'woman' is “expanded” so that it potentially includes literally anyone, with no objective criteria, then that definition is literally meaningless & females are denied the right to define ourselves as a sex class

@LogicalMarcus When the fact that Philip Bunce wore dresses to work a few days a week meant he became a literal woman (on his Philip days as well, or just on her Pippa days?) & was named one of the top 100 women in business, taking the place of a woman in a male dominated industry

@LogicalMarcus When we were told that Alex Drummond, who sits on the Stonewall trans advisory group, is a woman because she identifies as a woman & therefore she should use women's changing rooms, refuges etc & it's bigoted to object to a bearded male-bodied be-penised person in these spaces

@LogicalMarcus When in the #MeToo era we started telling girls & women 'don't worry if you see a man in the women's changing rooms, they know better than you'

@LogicalMarcus Trans women need protections that females don't and vice versa. And especially so for trans men too. The insistence that sex either doesn't exist or doesn't matter would seem to leave v many people vulnerable.

@LogicalMarcus Trans men & female born non binary ppl are more likely to be sexually assaulted than trans women or male born non binary people. It's almost as though being born with female biology is somehow relevant....?

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