From The Telegraph:

The Church of England has said that there is “no official definition” of a woman.

Did it say anything about an official definition of a man?

Senior bishops have insisted that until recently, the answer to questions such as what constitutes a woman “were thought to be self-evident”. However, now “additional care” is needed.

Let’s talk about more official definitions. What’s the official definition of “God”? How about “soul”? Sin? Faith? Prayer? Miracle? Magic? Voodoo?

The stance comes as the institution struggles to remain relevant and progressive amid declining congregant numbers and in an increasingly secular society.

So they try to be progressive by telling women that men are also women?

Rev Angela Berners-Wilson, who became the first woman to be ordained as a priest in England in 1994, and who has recently retired, told The Telegraph in response to the Bishop of Europe’s answer: “I’m not totally happy with it. I mean, I do think certain things like men can’t have babies just to say the complete obvious thing.”

The completely obvious thing and the very consequential thing. The fact that women and only women can have babies is one of the reasons women are so ferociously monitored and controlled. The job is crucial, therefore it’s necessary to treat women as inferior and enslaved. Another way to look at it of course would be to say therefore it’s necessary to treat women as valuable and irreplaceable. That wouldn’t be as much fun though.

“But I think we need to be very sensitive and maybe we need to reexamine our boundaries.”

Very sensitive how though? Being very sensitive toward men who call themselves women entails being very insensitive toward women who know that men are men. Why is it only the men who get the extra sensitivity?

Jayne Ozanne, synod member and founder of the Ozanne Foundation in 2017 – which works with religious organisations around the world to tackle prejudice and discrimination of LGBTQI people – described the question as “passive aggressive”.

She said: “Mr Kendy’s question is sadly a prime example of a passive aggressive question that is designed to upset the LGBT+ community and particularly the trans members in our midst.

Speaking of passive-aggressive – there is no “LGBT+” community. The T is not part of the LGB.

And the question is not designed to “upset” anyone: it’s designed to find out who still knows what women are and what men are, and who is pretending to think it’s all a matter of self-definition.

Dr Jane Hamlin, president of Beaumont Society charity, which supports trans people, added: “I am puzzled why some people are so obsessed with defining ‘woman’. Why might this be an issue for the Church of England?

“Is it that women should be treated more favourably or less favourably? Why does it matter to the Church of England whether someone is a woman or not a woman? Surely it only matters to the individual themselves.”

Unless you’re in a hospital or a prison or running for office or trying to break into a field dominated by men or competing in a sport or…………..