“Scholars”? Really?
We’re not allowed to talk about that, declares enlightened academic Alison Phipps.
“Trans lives are not up for debate” is a slogan meant to shut people up without saying “shut up.” What does it mean? Besides “shut up,” that is.
It means that we’re not allowed to question, or point out the flaws in, the elaborate claims about “gender identity” that are meant to underpin the political campaign to force everyone to pretend that men are women if they say they are. If a huge furious man with clenched fists shouts at you that he is a woman, you’re not allowed to point out that he’s acting like a man, and is threatening to you, and could do you harm if he threw a punch with one of those fists. It means the huge man’s claim to be a woman is his life and is a trans life and is not up for debate.
If that’s not up for debate then what is up for debate? If we can’t question claims as flagrantly untrue and untethered to reality is that then what can we question?
Not knowing who Alison Phipps was I looked her up, and found what seems to be perfectly decent professor at Glasgow. Wrong Alison Phipps, alas.
I wrote about her not too long ago, apropos of her book trashing “white feminists.” She is of course white herself.
Easy. Women’s right to spaces, institutions, and political organizations of their own.
YNNB, not even that is up for debate; women simply do not have those rights, and attempts to argue otherwise will be shouted down.
If nothing is up for debate, why did she publish in the first place?