Explain yourself
Man who identifies as a woman bullies woman (and Labour MP) to agree that he is a woman.
That is, trans woman Juno Dawson grills Labour MP Jess Phillips on why she retweeted the Women’s Party UK and does she understand why that retweet “caused some concern”?
Think very carefully before you reply.
It’s very clever to carve out a moderate position which shifts the Overton Window like this. On the one side there are the people with “bad intent” and bad thought (“trans women are not women”.) Then there are the bad people on the other side: those who get angry at people who accidentally say things that make it seem like they have bad intent and thought when they don’t. So let’s be kind and open: give those who made a mistake the chance to correct themselves and say they DO believe trans women are women, they’re so sorry.
See how nicely they landed in the middle between extremes.
Yes, that’s clearly the intent, and no doubt it works for many, but it just makes me want to throw things.
Once you give up the effort to look the other way, there’s no going back.