Well, this is one reason it matters.
There has been a great deal of discussion this week about how we look at rape.
Q Manivannan MSP hit the headlines after comments they made in a podcast resurfaced, where the Edinburgh and Lothians East MSP said rape is a “spectrum” and rapists are “demonised”.
There. Right there. The first two sentences of the piece, and we can see why.
Q Manivannan is a man, who calls himself “non-binary”. How very convenient! He’s a man trying to make life easier for rape, so we absolutely need to know that he’s a man and not be tricked by some bullshit about how he’s nonbinareeeee. Men have a lot more motivation to belittle the importance of rape than women do, to put it mildly. How convenient it is for manly Manivannan that he is nonbinareeeee so he gets to say rapists are demonized without getting yelled at. If he were really nonbinareee he would have at least some understanding of how women view rape, but in reality he obviously has zero idea of what it’s like to be a woman.