I welcomed The Cambridge University Society of Women to the fray a few days ago. Today the student paper Varsity explains how naughty those women are.

Students launch women’s society excluding trans women

Students launch women’s society excluding men. You don’t say! Mind you, feminists have been launching women’s societies and parties and so on for more than half a century, but let’s all disapprove of these women anyway. How very dare they.

Students have launched the first women’s society at the University of Cambridge to be restricted to those defined as “female at birth,” a move that has been criticised by other groups as “an assault on the trans community”.

Which is stupid. It’s not an assault on anyone to have groups for specific sets of people. The only reason this is the first women’s society at the University of Cambridge to be restricted to those defined as “female at birth” is because until the other day everyone knew that was what “women” meant. It wasn’t necessary to spell it out further, because women meant women.

The move immediately provoked backlash from across the University. The Cambridge University Labour Club (CULC) called it “the latest assault on the trans community at Cambridge,” accusing the society of promoting “transphobic rhetoric under the guise of ‘free speech’,” while several societies issued a joint statement in support of the trans community.

Blah blah blah. This club and that society and the other group of women-haters said this that and the other about these naughty wicked defiant witchy women. Blah blah.

There’s a great deal more of the same kind of thing. Read it at your peril.