https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/lets-not-downplay-this-triumph-for-women-kjblm09zb
For decades, women had no issue with trans women, who’d mainly undergone full surgical transition, using the ladies. We saw them and said nothing, because we are indeed kind and knew they were just quietly living their lives. But self-ID and Stonewall’s “acceptance without exception” campaign demanded anyone in their “trans umbrella”, including male fetishists who filmed themselves masturbating at the mirrors, had a right to be there. And we had no right to object because, as Stonewall’s then CEO, Ruth Hunt, put it, “men will always rape women”, so why fuss about safeguards?
A delicate rights ecosystem, a benign rubbing along, the natural empathy between feminists and gender non-conforming men, were all smashed. Women asking to discuss how self-ID would affect their rights were screamed down, meetings attacked by violent, balaclava-clad protesters, bashing windows and letting off smoke bombs. Meanwhile, on the BBC and elsewhere, trans activists were fêted as saints.
https://archive.ph/M5g5Z
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