I had to go digging to find out what happened.

Hannah is Hannah Brown, who wrote a venomous piece in The Scotsman misrepresenting what For Women Scotland said.

For Women Scotland – which claims to campaign ‘for sex-based rights’ in Scotland – posted on Twitter on August 15: “Horrific regimes and movements like the Taliban also know what same-sex attraction is. They don’t check whether it’s “same gender” attraction like Stonewall and BBC. They hang, behead or shoot men for l[o]ving men and women for resisting rape.”

Yes, and? It’s the truth. The Taliban don’t care how people “identify.” The Taliban don’t terrorize and slaughter people because of their identity, they do it because of their actual physical sex. For Women Scotland doesn’t “claim to” campaign for women and girls, it does so, and their point in the tweet is that women and girls are oppressed, raped, dominated, tortured, and murdered by the Taliban on the basis of their sex – what’s between their legs, not what’s between their ears. What is it that Hannah Brown objects to? Heather knows.

Heather Herbert, LGBT+ Labour Scotland trans officer said: “Using the horrific situation in Afghanistan as a way to attack trans people shows how blinkered FWS are.”

It’s not “attacking trans people” to point out that men are not women. Pointing out how absurd and reactionary the trans dogma is, and how useless it is for actual women in desperate situations, is not “attacking” trans people. It’s not “attacking” Christians to be an atheist or to make atheist arguments, and it’s not “attacking” trans people to be an atheist about the trans belief system. Woo is woo, whether it’s about magic gods in the sky or magic gender in the brain.

“Instead of talking about how the safety of women and girls they appear to be cheering the Taliban on.”

The Scotsman needs better copy editors. Two confusion-making errors in these few short paragraphs so far.

Susan Smith, a spokeswoman for the group[,] said: “Having the language to talk about the plight of women, girls and LGB people in Afghanistan is important.

“The human rights catastrophe is happening to people because of their sex or sexual orientation and it should not be problematic to state that.

“That “activists” have used this to attack us is incomprehensible, and we only took the post down as we wanted the focus to stay on women and girls in Afghanistan.

“We made no comparison to our organisation whatsoever and to try and pretend our tweet was an attack on trans people is rank dishonesty.”

It’s also a big part of what’s wrong with the whole “movement” – this dishonest working up of outrage at obviously true factual claims like “men are not women.”