When misogynistic labels become ordinary language:

An NHS trust has come under fire for using the derogatory term “terf” in a guide on how to support transgender staff.

In documents drawn up by the North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT), the guidance uses the slur, which stands for “transgender-exclusionary radical feminist”, to describe women who do not want to share single-sex facilities with trans women.

The women in question do not want to share single-sex facilities with men. The fact that they’re men is the part that matters. The fact that they call themselves trans is just a kind of veil drawn over the awkward fact that they are men. The men part should be front and center.

The document also claims that it is “unlawful” to exclude trans women from women-only spaces around the hospital.

Yeah right and it’s also unlawful to exclude burglars from your kitchens and living rooms.

It comes after the Supreme Court ruled the opposite two weeks ago, declaring that a woman is defined by biological sex under equality laws.

It means those born male are not able to access a women-only space even if they have changed the gender they identify as…

For the simple and easy to grasp reason that changing your label doesn’t change your sex. Sex is not a matter of “identifying as”; it’s a matter of brute fact. It’s a given. It is what it is. You can change it in your own head but nobody else on the planet has to agree with what’s in your head.

The trust’s guidance also makes claims “some cisgender people have unlawful discriminatory views of trans people using single-sex spaces such as using gendered toilets”.

Unlawful views!! We’re not even allowed to have our own views now! They think we’re committing a crime by having “views” such as “people can’t change sex.” They think views can be “unlawful”.

We’ll be told to ask permission to have our own thoughts at this rate.