I do not expect people here to bring me out of the greys. I know my status here as a terf/swerf/old second waver. I am not a bigot, not any more than the regulars here. I am a middle aged feminist who changed her mind about trans issues after reading a lot of research, some by a trans woman (who considers…

The NHS (and other nationalized healthcare countries) provide essential healthcare services through the tax revenue they collect. They do not provide elective procedures.

Sex change operations cost £10 million so far, with 1,000 people treated. That’s £10,000 per person, for a treatment is a choice because plenty of trans people choose not have surgery. They are happy just with hormone treatments and/or cross dressing.

Hormones are not the only physical differences between men and women. Adjusting hormone levels may affect muscles, fat distribution, and (in the long-term) bone density. But it will not affect skeletal structure, lung capacity, heart size, or the other advantages that biological males have over biological females.

She certainly retains the male skeletal structure, which is functionally different than a female’s skeleton.

Bye Bye women’s sports.

I find it genuinely fascinating how terms have shifted in the trans community over the years. When my cousin transitioned in the ninties, it was all but expected that, barring finances, you would have the sex change surgery (or at least the orchiectomy ). Until then, it was expected that you would have to take…

It’s not a hypothetical. It’s actually happening in MMA of all places. Look up Fallon Fox. She’s destroying people.

“Fussed”, really? Bless *you*. I’m sure you meant to use the word “objected”. Nothing new about a movement, political and special interest focused for the most part, lobbying to remove any and all stigma, including pejorative labeling, attached to the unlawful or (brace yourself for a psychological trigger… “illegal”)…

When Greer started out, her views on women in culture were also unpopular, but she was allowed to speak and she influenced an entire generation. Be careful of what you wish for - freedom of speech is there to protect unpopular speech. You may feel you’re views are in the majority, but don’t get too complacent about…

So you agree that a woman should be allowed to give a talk on ‘Women & Power: The Lessons of the 20th Century’?

This article isn’t about the oppression of transwomen.

Thanks for derailing a conversation about the global oppression of women.

Your response has nothing to do with anything I said.

Exactly, because anti-choice laws, maternal mortality, FGM, honor killings, human trafficking, etc, these are all due to the gender identity of those victimized, not their sex, right?

No, asswipe, you’d think they’d ring bells in a man’s mind. Go organize among your own kind. Clearly there’s work to be done.

Yeah, I’d be happy too if I’d just been featured on the cover of Vanity Fair in my underwear. I’d be overjoyed if I had just signed a multi-million dollar contract for a show featuring me alone, instead of my obnoxious family. I would be over the moon if Diane Sawyer spent two hours of prime time TV discussing me and…

I don’t agree with everything you’ve said, but I have noticed the cohort that you’ve noticed: the trans activists who threaten and coerce and argue (die cis scum etc.) in masculine-coded ways, trying to terrify their enemies into submission. They are some of the loudest voices, precisely because they use these…

Funny, I would have thought the Maasai could say as much for themselves, and yet they don't - as far you, I and certainly the author of this supremely bitchy and tasteless piece know. And yet it's the saintly and self-elected harpy house chorus who imply - in tones that affect sympathy but never rise about…

The only person who comes across as an asshole in this piece is the Jez writer.