More of the More of the More of the Same

[steepholm]

This morning the Guardian publishes a puff review of Kathleen Stock's new book, which suggests that the stranglehold trans people have on public discourse has had a chilling effect. (Prof. Stock was given an OBE in this year's New Year's Honours.)

This afternoon Nick Robinson suggests on Radio 4 to the new Scottish finance minister that trans rights have become a new religion, which people question at their peril.

Neither seems to have encountered much peril, however.

By contrast, Tennessee has just introduced a law obliging any establishment that allows trans people to use the toilet to have the following wording on the entrance to each toilet door:

This facility maintains a policy of allowing the use of restrooms by either biological sex, regardless of the designation on the restroom.

While journalists and professors with national platforms whine about being "silenced," trans people are being legislated out of society altogether. This is not a new observation, I know, but I think it's worth reiterating as long as it remains true.

Comments

[calimac]

I just got out of an argument with people who still insist that birth genitalia (or something - I doubt they're actually counting chromosomes) are biologically "real" in a sense that other determinations of sex aren't. Blimey, it's getting on to 50 years since I took university genetics, and we knew better than that then, even though transsexuality as such never came up.

[steepholm]

In my experience they'll shift ground from chromosomes to phenotypes to hormones to socialisation in the blink of an eye, depending on the situation.