We did indeed learn
Women not wheeshting.
The more of us there, the harder it is for them. Hence the desperation.
They tried threats, attacks on employment, outright lies about funding & beliefs but more & more women are standing up.
They are trying legislation, but we're standing up to that too.#WomenWontWheesht
— forwomen.scot (@ForwomenScot) July 15, 2021
We did indeed learn. Not the lesson they thought they were teaching! Thank you for being uncancellable.
— Sarah Phillimore (@SVPhillimore) July 15, 2021
You are both a credit to your sex xxxxxx
— Julie Bindel (@bindelj) July 15, 2021
There are lots of these.
Yay!
❤️
What “Fee” is saying is Orwellian Newspeak. Yes, obstretric violence is sex based, but this person wants to make clear that there is literally no name for that sex in the English language, so it cannot be discussed.
Sorry, but even if we grant the nebulous and highly contested concept of gender identity, it does not follow that one’s sex is also a matter of ‘identifying as’. Saying that some people that are female don’t identify as female is like saying a 6ft tall person doesn’t identify as being 6 feet tall. ‘Female’ is a label for a body matching certain physical parameters; if a person matches those parameters, she is female.
Years ago, TRAs were pushing for a more moderate position: a transwoman was male, but a woman. Male/female were sex-based terms; man/woman were categories of identity.
There’s plenty to object to here — but that’s no longer the claim. It’s now male/man and female/women are both matters of how you identify. Or, perhaps, that “male” and “female” are nonsensical distinctions (wadabout IntERseX???) and even bringing them up is transphobic and intended to harm the vulnerable. So “some males have a a functioning uterus and can give birth” is supposed to be scientific and obviously true.
GW
I’d say it’s less Newspeak and more doublethink. Newspeak would destroy the word, while Fee’s ilk would destroy its meaning. To simultaneously think “this is sex-based” and “this is identity-based” is paradigmatic doublethink.
Sastra, not only is sex transphobic, it’s a product of western colonialism. No one knew anything like that until westerners colonized them and divided the world into two sexes. Haven’t you heard? It’s racism, pure and simple, to suggest men can’t be women.
They get more ridiculous with every passing day.
Iknklast, this must be the first generation to think their parents invented sex.
Iknklast #6: Yes, by now we know this well, as the TRAs have been teaching us for some time now. (Two years already?) Until Columbus colonized the Indigenous Peoples (all of them), they all used to just try rubbing against each other in various combinations, and sometimes a baby would come out and sometimes not. They had no concept of categorizing people into two sexes.
It’s really sinister to say to someone “you obviously haven’t learned from the response JKR got” when that response was rape and death threats.