Grotesque.
“They are women on their passports,” he says twice, irritably.
What does that mean?
People could “be” anything at all on their passports if the rules of passports allowed it. They could be ants, trees, nations, planets – because passports are just human artefacts, which humans can change at will. If a man’s fist smashes a woman’s face it really doesn’t matter what his passport says.
They are women on their passports, he says. Ok but are they women in their bodies? Are they women for real? Are they women in the sense we normally understand it?
I’ve been trying to find that out this morning and not finding it easy. The reporting is muddled.
But Mark Adams’s dismissive “They are women on their passports” suggests they are not women in their bodies, as women have been saying for the past few days.
It’s all so absurd. He might as well write on a piece of paper “They are women” and hold it up whenever a woman asks the question. “Look, it says right here they’re women, now stop asking.”
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Is it possible to hold to account someone who believes he has nothing to be held to account for?
Reminds me of a bit from an Eddie Izzard standup show I saw long ago, before his transubstantiation into womanhood.
Ironic that Izzard and men like him now see fit to steal women’s spaces and sports with the cunning use of passports.
Women’s passport; women’s sports. That’s the rules, that… they’ve… just made up.
The media are being remiss in their reporting, of course. Everyone I’ve told so far has heard about it first from me, and have been horrified when they are prompted to read more.
What (or who) is scaring these people so badly from behind the scenes that they are willing to go against common sense, decency, fairness, safety, and public opinion?
I would love to know!
Artymorty, that’s a good analogy. Of course, the trans also have a flag…one they stole from the LGB.
ikn @5 It wasn’t just a theft, it was a perversion.