A pantomine horse isn’t a horse.
An open secret isn’t a secret.
A hot dog isn’t a dog.
A shrinking violet isn’t a violet.
Crow’s feet aren’t feet.
Fair game’s not a game.
Trans women aren’t women.
A delusional male narcissist can go to a women’s clothing store and get dressed up. He can go to a doctor and get drugged up. He can go to a surgeon and get cut up. But at the end of the day, he’s just a dressed up, drugged up, cut up, delusional male narcissist.
Being biologically female means having a body that is observably organised to produce large gametes (eggs), as opposed to a body organised to produce small gametes (sperm). A woman is female whether her eggs have been fertilised or not. A man can never be female.
"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."
I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:
Please listen. Maeve is spot on & in this ever shallower virtue signalling world, you may think letting gay kids ruin their bodies & any chance of a healthy future is kindness (it is not, it’s cowardice, protecting them is) or ruining young girls sporting dreams, by allowing boys to unfairly steal their accolades, is kindness (it’s not, its un factual & un scientific) or allowing male sexual predators to share cells with vulnerable female inmates… is kindness (it most definitely is not, it torture). Just check your logic. Stop Being a Handmaiden or a coward & be more Maeve.
Yes, the people who call themselves 'trans' exist and they deserve exactly the same rights as everyone else, which, fortunately, they already have in the UK. It would rightly be considered discrimination if a person was refused employment, housing or the vote because they identified as trans.
'Trans women are women' is a thought-terminating cliché. Men are not women. That doesn't mean they're not allowed to present themselves however they like, call themselves whatever they like and believe whatever they like about themselves. It means they haven't changed sex.
If we replace the objective, observable characteristic of sex with the unfalsifiable concept of gender identify, women and girls lose, among other things, their right to fair and safe sport and women-only spaces, including changing rooms, prison cells and rape crisis services.
Women and girls are provably more vulnerable to forms of abuse including sexual assault, harassment and voyeurism in mixed-sex spaces. There is no evidence that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same rates of criminal offending as all other men.
Trans people exist. I have no desire for them not to exist; indeed, I wish them safety, happiness and health. However, 'existence' does not, and should not, mean the violation of other people's right to privacy, dignity and freedom of speech, or the reconfiguration of society to indulge a fallacy.