BBC attempts ontology

What a display.

Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson says if people don't like the new guidance on single-sex spaces, 'change the law'.

The new chair of the EHRC says the law around single-sex spaces ‘is very clear’ and many women 'do really value single sex spaces'.

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Now plenty of people listening will say “Ah well look trans men and women can use unisex toilets or single cubicles” but many of them will not think that. They want the dignity of being confirmed in their sex.

But that’s not dignity. Adults playing let’s pretend is not dignity. Adults playing let’s pretend at the expense of women is not dignity and it’s not fair or right or acceptable, either. Adults demanding that everybody else in the world play along with their fantasies is so emphatically not dignity it’s hard to know how to express it.

Idiot man continues.

Call it an adopted sex if you like but that is what they will think.

But they will be wrong. They could insist on an adopted species, too, and they would be wrong about that also. People think a lot of things; there is no absolute rule that we have to endorse everything that people think.

They don’t want separate, they want to be who they are.

No, you buffoon, they want other people to pretend they are who they are not.

How did this happen? It’s as if adults like this guy, a professional BBC employee, were insisting that we all have to agree with people who claim to be elephants or spiders or whales or rattlesnakes. It’s embarrassing.