Thread by @HairyLeggdHarpy

RANT

I'm feeling so angry.

Composing a complaint for another 'males can have instant access to females if they want it cause the law says so' policy.

And I'm furious that the legal architects left any ambiguity in the law.

If the law ALREADY RECOGNISED FEMALES PROPERLY all of these other laws would collapse.

A sex class. The female sex class. A biological group, a bodily anatomy, a reproductive class, a tangible, material reality.

That's what we are.

If the law properly recognised what female IS and what it ISN'T, there wouldn't be any nonsense clauses or laws about how NOT-FEMALE people can be 'recognised' as FEMALE.

Because you can't 'recognise' what is not recognisable.

It's entirely impossible.

You can't recognise something as that which it is NOT.

You can't recognise that which has already been recognised as the opposite to what it claims.

You've already recognised it.
It's the opposite.
It's too late.

Here is a worm, please recognise it as a Boeing 747.

THAT'S NOT WHAT RECOGNITION IS

It's like a law that says "HELLO PLEASE RECOGNISE THIS PERSON AS YOUR AUNTY GLADYS WHO YOU HAVE KNOWN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE" when you don't have an aunty Gladys and you're unrelated to the complete stranger being presented to you.

You CAN'T.

Even if the law insists you must.

It's INSANE.

'To recognise' doesn't mean 'to lie' or 'to pretend'
But in these laws, it does.

It isn't a Gender Recognition Act.
It's a 'Sex Unrecognition Act'

It's a "we all recognise what sex is so this is a law to make everyone lie about it" Act.

We all exist in juxtaposition to each other.

You can't forbid me from recognising someone else's sex because it's RIGHT THERE IN OPPOSITION TO MY OWN.

Yet we've already written into TWO laws that what we've already recognised as NOT-FEMALE must be 'recognised' as FEMALE.

It's the opposite of recognition.

The very existence of these two pieces of legislation demonstrate what a forced lie it is.

The laws might as well have been phrased "How to punish one sex for being the opposite to the other"

If only we had been honest about what female means in the first place, thousands of women wouldn't be desperately arguing with thundering idiots and bullies about why boys are not in fact girls, and why facilities for girls are not for boys.

And we wouldn't be faced with the IDIOCY of others hiding behind, o well, but you see, the law is complicated and says that sex and gender and assignment and transition and identity and reassignment and legitimate and proportionate and 'recognise'...

We really must dissolve laws that force one sex to argue that we are in fact opposite to the other sex against any legal opposition.

At an individual level, this is the equivalent to me, a female, being denied the right to distinguish myself meaningfully from him, a male.

All the while he, a male, is granted the right to distinguish himself meaninglessly from other males.

It's simply a bully's charter that grants the bigger kid the right to sit on the littler kid, but denies the little kid the right to get out from under him.

That's what these laws do.

They grant bullies the right to say I'M THE SAME AS YOU when by every tangible measure that's a lie.

And they deny victims the right to say BUT I'M NOT THE SAME AS YOU when by every tangible measure it's the truth.

Because we've created two laws that say tangible measures are forbidden, and we must all now play in the playground of the fantasists by their rules, of which there is only one: SUBMIT.

I've absolutely had enough.

END_RANT.