Insightful @MForstater "where it's necessary to be explicit about someone's sex, whether it's to do with collecting data, or sport, or crime, or enabling & recognising women, we have to be able to make distinction between male/female, men & women." 18'-48' bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Section on when she might conceivably, hypothetically misgender telling. Interviewer tried to make out Maya resorts to extreme scenarios that might be deemed offensive when using safeguarding as an example - but Maya brought her back to question she'd been logically asked. Sharp!
"My case comes in context of 100s of women, probably 1000s - & men - who have been investigated at work, who have been put under pressure to keep quiet about this issue & who are anon on social media becos of it, & people who have done something like liking a tweet by JK Rowling"
"Think tanks, the organisations, the women's sector are having these debates with *fear* - and that's not right. There are real conflicts of rights, conflicts of interest between women & transwomen - and we ought to be able to talk about those."
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"What people are afraid of is not hostility on Twitter. What people are afraid of is losing their jobs & harming their careers - and that happens because complaints processes within organisations get weaponised."
"What people are afraid of is not hostility on Twitter. What people are afraid of is losing their jobs & harming their careers - and that happens because complaints processes within organisations get weaponised."
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