Thread by @luceleftred1

Apparently, anyone who wishes to uphold the integrity of woman as a sex-based political class is a fundamentalist and purist. The idea that woman is categorised by her sex rather than ‘identity’ is the new extremist position to take. Women who advocate such an audacious…1.

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stance have certainly felt the backlash to such a preposterous proposal and have been branded authoritarian, unpleasant and abusive. Nice deflection. And one that might work if we were truly few in number but the truth is many women and men hold this ‘extremist’ view. It is…2.

based on science after all. Our lived experiences are superfluous evidence to that fact. You could argue that the real purists are those who believe in ‘true trans’ - those whose subjective sense of self, as the opposite sex, is a genuine feeling that comes from the very…3.

bottom of their souls. Never mind that this belief manifests as regressive, objectifying stereotypes of women. Or that it violates boundaries and negates safeguarding. Purists hold these ‘true transers’ in such high regard, this small demographic of predominantly men, are to…4.

be protected and given special privileges that include the right to legally falsify their sex. What could possibly go wrong with regards to women’s right to political/proportional representation, single-sex provision, privacy and the rather more pressing, paramount issue of…5.

child safeguarding. Whatever the reasons behind the purists position - be it a genuine attempt at ‘balance’ or just pure male privilege - make no mistake, Starmer and @UKLabour are purists, they are ‘true trans’. No amount of rehearsed ‘sensible lines’ will detract from the…6.

fact Labour think 0.1% of women have penises. Insisting women make compromises to bring about a ‘balance’ of rights that result in the political erasure of the female sex sounds like age-old misogyny to me.
If calling to #RepealTheGRA and #AmendTheEA to remove the PC of…7.

gender reassignment is a ‘purist’ position to take, then I counter that it is only purist in the sense that a man cannot become a woman and should not be permitted to do so legally and that woman sure as hell does not have a penis. 8.
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