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Very sad to see this. The debate over trans rights has become one of the most polarised and hostile I have seen, so sadly I’m not surprised. Hopefully as a society we can work to be a little more compassionate towards each other bbc.co.uk/news/uk-487563…
I think this issue is one where a human rights approach is so crucial. An appreciation that every individual has a basic right to dignity, to flourish, to live without discrimination. That rights aren’t a finite cake where you take a piece for one and deny it to another.
Yes, there are issues around how the law is calibrated to allow people to officially change their gender. But a liberal, compassionate and creative society can solve those issues like we have solved myriad others in the past decades.
As I have said in my very long thread on the Gender Recognition Act
And, though I am reluctant even to say this because of my mentions, the hostility between rival groups of rights activists (loosely defined as ‘radical feminists’ and ‘trans rights activists’) makes me deeply sad. We have so much to achieve together as allies.
I’m not going to be arrogant enough to cismansplain a solution, but I do think a human rights-focussed approach is essential as a starting point. Listening to individuals and their experience of the world, not dividing into competing groups
