If anyone can be a woman merely by declaring oneself to be so, then how is violence against women to be measured, and thus resourced against?
It may be a matter of scientific debate what is causing it, and it is certainly a matter of political debate what to do about it. But the globe is warming. That is a fact.
And you can cut up the tissue any way you like. The chromosomes do not change. Sex does not change. That is a fact.
There are people who will accept the first fact, but not the second. There are people who will accept the second fact, but not the first.
They are both wrong.
Golly.
ReplyDeleteYou'd get drowned in left-wing abuse for saying this on Twitter.
The only place you could get away with it is in the Mail.
Richard Littlejohn's perfectly reasonable column "She's not just in the wrong body, she's in the wrong job" (about a primary school teacher who changed sex mid-term, and demanded her seven-year-old pupils call him by his new female name after coming back from the holidays) is still the subject of a torrent of left-wing abuse now. The Mail had to cave in and take it down.
Jan Moir's article on Stephen Gateley's rather unconventional lifestyle (he died while his partner was upstairs in the same house with a male prostitute) is similarly still a topic of hate on the Left.
It was brought up in the Leveson enquiry by leftists who wanted to put the press in politically correct shackles.
It received a record 25,000 orchestrated 'complaints'-more than any other Mail article in history.
As Thatcher's biographer Charles Moore observed after the nonsensical furore over Oliver Letwin's perfectly reasonable remarks on rioters (which Peter Hitchens has defended) in our PC society, it is now easier to be a public supporter of the IRA, than to question transgender operations.
I did say this on Twitter, so I stopped reading there.
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