The gender wars have been hot today. Most of the heat has come from…male barristers calling women names and accusing them of horrors. This guy in particular:

Quite a contrast, isn’t it. Maya’s critical of Simon Cox, but she doesn’t call him names. He calls her, and all of us, names.

Jolyon Maugham QC has been at it too, and he, notoriously, blocks everyone who disputes him no matter how mildly, so there is no argument or dissent to be seen via his Twitter. It’s all quite disturbing. I could understand it if we were calling for harm to befall someone, but all we’re saying is that men are not women and that sex is not something you can change the way you change your socks or a library book. That’s it. There is no “therefore trans people should be harmed.” People like Maugham and Cox seem to see it there, but they are hallucinating.

Cox has succeeded in scaring a young woman who works near him.

He doesn’t though. The things he said to Maya don’t fit that description.