A Christian invention

It isn’t my womb that makes me a woman, Natasha Devon writes

Because it’s the large non-motile gametes?

Hahaha no don’t be silly.

Trans people have always been present in human society. Famously Marsha P Johnson, an American activist and trans woman, threw the first brick during the Stonewall riots in June 1969.

“Famously” inaccurate. Johnson was a drag queen.

Binary notions of gender – the idea that there are only men and women and everyone fits neatly into one of those two categories – are also a Christian invention, which spread across the globe as Christian countries colonised it.

Huh. So how were there humans before Christianity? If they had no idea which was which how did they reproduce?

Yet, there is an additional layer of complexity when it comes to the trans discussion, which is confusing even some people who would consider themselves liberal and progressive – Namely, that trans women are erasing the rights of cis women (people who were born with a girl’s body).

That is indeed a complication; good that she admits it.

As a cis woman, I am supposed believe trans women are a threat to my rights to sex-specific healthcare, as well as being terrified that men wearing dresses are going to invade my private spaces (like toilets and changing rooms) to assault me. I’m also meant to worry transwomen might beat me at sports with inherent superior ability.

Oh I see, she wasn’t admitting it, but she’s too bad at writing to say that.

All very well to be glib about these obvious drawbacks to trans ideology, but the facts remain what they are.

Which, amusingly, she goes on to admit, while waving it away with “but surely we can figure out some way to have everything we want.”

Trans people in sports is more of a nuanced discussion in my opinion, particularly when considering physical education in schools. Pre-puberty, it shouldn’t be too much bother to just let anyone of any gender play any sport they like, with anyone they like.

Yes, we know.

However, factors such as male bodies having (on average) stronger skeletal structures post-puberty, larger lung capacity and of course the impact of testosterone all make this more complex with teenagers.

And adults. Laurel Hubbard is 43.

I don’t think it’s unresolvable, however, if we really put our thinking caps on.

Ohhhhhhhh cool, that’s that fixed then. If only we’d thought of that!

I think we’ll never reach satisfactory conclusions if we allow ourselves to be side-tracked by a combination of blatant transphobia and the fabricated notion that cis and trans women’s rights are at odds.

She says, having just admitted that in at least one area they are.

After all, that’s not how right’s work: They aren’t a zero-sum game and we should always be cautious when we’re led to believe that showing humanity towards one demographic comes at the expense of another.

She says, having just admitted one area where “showing humanity” to men who say they are women decidedly does come at the expense of women.

There is zero thought or argument or effort here, it’s just repetition of three or four stupid mantras plus oops an admission that even she knows they’re not true.

But LBC thought it worth posting.

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