So, could you give an example of a fair, unprejudiced way feminist women could discuss males being admitted into women’s prisons, women’s sports & private spaces, together with the 4000% increase in the transition of teen girls?
Oz Katerji:
Of course. They could say “transgender women are women, of course — and obviously belong in women’s prisons, sports, and private spaces — but we may need to work out a few minor kinks with this. And then perhaps we could talk about why so many transgender boys don’t feel safe ‘coming out’ until they’re teenagers.” This is much more neutral and balanced, admitting there’s a problem but not going all hysterical.
Women have long ago passed through more than enough hoops. Rowling was bending over backwards to be supportive of trans women. Only complete erasure is acceptable. Hannah Arendt got some well deserved pushback for depicting local Jewish Councils as complicit with Nazis. But the comparison here is apt.
Rowling was bending over backwards to be supportive of trans women.
I agree with your wider point, John, but I don’t think Rowling was bending over backwards. I think that’s how she genuinely feels, as most people do, I think.
Gender critical women are exempt from the purity spiral because they will never be pure. There are so many hoops they become one long tube. A tube of infinite length. That is on fire. There is no far end, just the infinite length, and the burning.
Janice Turner:
So, could you give an example of a fair, unprejudiced way feminist women could discuss males being admitted into women’s prisons, women’s sports & private spaces, together with the 4000% increase in the transition of teen girls?
Oz Katerji:
Of course. They could say “transgender women are women, of course — and obviously belong in women’s prisons, sports, and private spaces — but we may need to work out a few minor kinks with this. And then perhaps we could talk about why so many transgender boys don’t feel safe ‘coming out’ until they’re teenagers.” This is much more neutral and balanced, admitting there’s a problem but not going all hysterical.
Women have long ago passed through more than enough hoops. Rowling was bending over backwards to be supportive of trans women. Only complete erasure is acceptable. Hannah Arendt got some well deserved pushback for depicting local Jewish Councils as complicit with Nazis. But the comparison here is apt.
I agree with your wider point, John, but I don’t think Rowling was bending over backwards. I think that’s how she genuinely feels, as most people do, I think.
Gender critical women are exempt from the purity spiral because they will never be pure. There are so many hoops they become one long tube. A tube of infinite length. That is on fire. There is no far end, just the infinite length, and the burning.
Us GC women are irrevocably tainted by dint of our birth into female bodies, compounded by our refusal to renounce those same bodies.