Hmm. Knowing a little about newspapers, it's quite possible David himself didn't write the headline and blurb - though the thrust of his review is clear, the direct reference to sex as a "social construct" is Joyce's quote: 
https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1415926069396480001
I'm not so sure that isn't a #StrawMan; an extreme position being characterised as if it were the nub of the debate. I don't know, but can't imagine many would vehemently disagree with these commonly held definitions:
(Though I expect there are nuances.)
https://twitter.com/EinsteinsAttic/status/1365987788408172550?s=19
(Though I expect there are nuances.)
I first encountered grassroots #trans groups in the '00s when campaigning against @ukhomeoffice #IDcards & the #NationalIdentityRegister.
They were generous, tolerant & open - explaining to someone with no knowledge the many challenges of #transition, including living with an...
They were generous, tolerant & open - explaining to someone with no knowledge the many challenges of #transition, including living with an...
...#identity other than the one officially recorded about them at birth. So it has been with increasing dismay that I've seen the emergence and polarisation of the '#TransWars' in recent years - fueled in large part, it seems, by attempts to redefine words and (mis)represent...
...others' views or positions.
I'm a man and I know folk who are both #transgender & #transexual, #nonbinary too. I sometimes get people's #pronouns wrong; like many I respond in default 'binary' ways to visual and auditory cues. (If I'm honest, my #gaydar is pretty crap too...
I'm a man and I know folk who are both #transgender & #transexual, #nonbinary too. I sometimes get people's #pronouns wrong; like many I respond in default 'binary' ways to visual and auditory cues. (If I'm honest, my #gaydar is pretty crap too...
...possibly because other folk's sexual orientation has never really bothered me. People are people; what business is it of mine who someone loves or is attracted to?)
But like David, I respect people's choices and am happy to call people by whatever name or pronoun they want...
But like David, I respect people's choices and am happy to call people by whatever name or pronoun they want...
...and I abhor #discrimination, and loathe #bullying of any type.
One of the lessons of #HumanRights - and #identity! - campaigning, though, is that different rights and different people's rights are often in #tension. And that 'doubling down' on this never solves things...
One of the lessons of #HumanRights - and #identity! - campaigning, though, is that different rights and different people's rights are often in #tension. And that 'doubling down' on this never solves things...
One of the most powerful lessons I've learned from @PeterTatchell is his statement "Their rights are our rights". Trans people are NOT trying to "destroy women", to quote Joyce, and operating on the assumption that every transgender woman is a sexual predator is both blatantly...
...#phobic and intellectually dishonest, not to mention on logical thin ice. (Is the fear of a woman with a penis, or rather of a man *pretending* to be a woman - who, by definition, isn't transgender?)
Rather than fighting each other, would it not be better to fight TOGETHER...
Rather than fighting each other, would it not be better to fight TOGETHER...
...for the rights we all need?
EVERYONE deserves #safety, and #recognition, and #respect - but the more things descend into name-calling and are framed as #ZeroSum battles, the less likely those all become.
EVERYONE deserves #safety, and #recognition, and #respect - but the more things descend into name-calling and are framed as #ZeroSum battles, the less likely those all become.
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