We think you’re talking unadulterated bullshit
The dogma is solemnly recited.
The fringe idea that we all have a ‘gender identity’ that may or may not match our biological sex is the whole point of this discussion. Trans activists act as though the existence of ‘gender identity’ is a settled, self-evident point, when to the vast majority of the world it’s unevidenced, quasi-religious, pseudoscientific nonsense, which has been imposed top down on our society with serious consequences for vulnerable women and troubled youth in particular.
Meaningful discussion about competing needs and rights cannot happen inside an elitist ideological bubble where everyone is forced to adopt gender ideology’s approved jargon, accept its self-contradicting slogans as fact and pretend fact-light assertions and feeble sophistry are critical thinking.
You tell us to ‘educate’ ourselves, by which you mean, ‘adopt our beliefs unquestioningly,’ but at this point, most of us know your arguments off by heart. These include, but are not limited to: feelings trump facts and unless we agree we’re ‘erasing people from existence’; women and girls aren’t definable entities, so why should they be entitled to their own sports and single-sex spaces; clownfish and people with DSDs mean sex is ‘on a spectrum’ and ‘woman’ is a set of stereotypes associated with the female sex class, so it doesn’t matter if you’ve got a penis, if you identify with those stereotypes you’re ‘valid’.
The reason we haven’t been won over by these talking points and remain so tragically ‘uneducated’ isn’t that we’ve failed to grasp the sophistication of your world view. It’s that we think you’re talking unadulterated bullshit and making fools of yourselves.
And that you’re violating women’s rights all over the shop.
Willett and his cohorts are trying to retcon their own efforts and actions to avoid being swept up in the turning tide, but there are more important perpetrators out there that need to be reeled in. There’s going to have to be a reform of those bodies and institutions which gave people like Willett that personal clout, police and courts particularly. Being able to report people for the non-crime of “misgendering”? Investigations of Tweets, stickers, limericks, images of ribbons, which in the normal course of events would have been considered wastes of police time? Forcing female victims of violent crimes commited by men to refer to their assailants using pronouns reserved for females? All those Willetts would have gotten nowhere without the capture and collusion of the agencies which freely, willingly, and eagerly shared with these vindictive ideologues their exclusive, state-granted powers to enforce and punish. This partisan intrusion into places it didn’t belong, in a way, prefigured Musk’s; “Stonewall law” presaged “Musk governance.” (I know I’m mixing up British and American experiences, but the impulse to unaccountably rewrite laws and regulations to suit a narrow, extremist viewpoint is strikingly similar). Both incursions have resulted in distortion and damage that has effected millions of people that will take years to root out and repair.
In the much-to-be-hoped-for inquiry into the hijacking of nominally democratic institutions, those responsible should be made to answer for their decisions, and held accountable for the hurt and harm inflicted on those (mostly women) who suffered at the hands of this perversion and misdirection of legal, judicial, and governmental policy. It probably won’t happen, but it should.
Bravo! Time for a standing ovation (and I don’t give those lightly).
Willett then accuses JKR of “conflating sex and gender, part 94.” No, you obtuse cretin (except that you’re not obtuse; you know full well that you are lying; I guess that makes you a mendacious cretin), JKR is the one in this exchange who is scrupulously keeping sex and gender distinct and apart from one another. It’s you doing the conflating, sowing deliberate confusion by talking out of both sides of your mouth. Classic DARVO: accuse your opponent of doing the very thing that you do yourself.