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Originally Posted by Chris
Tatchell’s piece is the usual mix of unevidenced assertions, contradictions and circular definitions.
To assert the ‘facts’ of sexual attraction and so-called gender identity side by side is ludicrous. You can observe sexual attraction, and therefore sexual orientation, in a laboratory. It has a powerful physiological component that is measurable. You can do no such thing vis a vis ‘gender identity’ which is an entirely internal, self-referencing psychological state riven with contradictions and circularity (ask a trans activist to define the word ‘woman’ without reference to the word ‘woman’ … it’s entertaining).
There is no credible evidence for the existence of the ‘trans brain’. No serious study has ever shown any such thing. It is not gender-critical commentators who are trying to impose regressive sexual stereotypes, it is the trans community. Anyone who has ever seen a trans-identifying male dress as a woman knows that regressive stereotypes of womanhood are very much a trans trait. And his so-called solutions to the problems of males in the female prison estate and other sensitive female-only spaces are just exercises in special pleading. It doesn’t matter how carefully you assess a man who wants to attend a women-only safe space, the process of assessment in and of itself embeds and normalises the idea that men should be allowed to identify themselves into those spaces by default, over-and above the objection of women who do not want them there simply because they are men.
I’m also curious what published evidence there is that Tatchell was campaigning on these issues 50 years ago. I’ve never seen any. I have on the other hand seen evidence in print of his past advocacy for pedophilia. So he’s not someone whose views on societal norms I’d instinctively trust.
I could go on, but I shall take a deep breath and refrain. For now.  |
And yet a trans women who is, from a physical and presentational perspective, conformant to a broad definition of a women is only a threat because men who object to trans gender identities say so.
Some recent polling suggest you are at odds with wider society:
Landmark study shows Britons’ support for trans equality
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A landmark study has found that the British public are not opposed to trans equality, with a quarter of those polled knowing someone who is trans, rising to one in two among Gen Z respondents.
The new research published Thursday, which is thought to be the most detailed UK study of public attitudes towards trans people to date, surveyed more than 5,000 people to ascertain opinion on what is often portrayed as a deeply divisive and contentious subject.
More in Common, an international research organisation, found that nearly half of those polled (46 per cent) agreed with the statement that “a trans man is a man and a trans woman is a woman”, compared with 32 per cent who disagreed and 22 per cent who said they didn’t know, with agreement highest among younger generations.
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You have to start to examine what the underlying reasons are that fuel such a hatred of trans identity. They will be starting on homosexuality next ...