Julie Bindel, a popular feminist campaigner in the UK, and Melanie Newman, a journalist trained in law, wrote about “Trans rights” for the Critic in April. The sub-title of their article reads: “Women’s rights were not considered in legislation that allows trans people to effectively decide their own gender.”
One might ask: If we are going to allow for the premise of “trans people” as individuals who adopt a performative ideology of disembodiment and are granted legal status based on performing body disassociation, why even think that women’s rights WOULD be considered? The entire idea of “gender identity” rests on the dissolution of the boundary between male and female.
It is patently absurd to” (a) purport to fight the state’s attempts to deconstruct human sexual dimorphism in law and language; (b) discuss “transgender people” as a settled subcategory of humans; and then (c) be surprised that women’s sex-based rights won’t be upheld. If society accepts the notion of disembodiment, which Bindel does, of course women’s sex-based rights will be obliterated. Women are half of the sexually dimorphic species of humans.
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