August 3 Reads

Suzanne Moore answers her own question.  The whole point is to destroy women's rights.
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Forget Karen Bass.  This would be like having Bernie Sanders on the ticket.
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That's an excellent question.

A key component of this debate are the seeds of confusion sown by the Gender Recognition Act 2004 with its conflation of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’.

There are only two sexes: male and female. They are observed at birth in more than 99% of humans; the existence of those with ‘differences of sexual development’ do not disprove the binary as they are defined in relation to it. ‘Gender’ is how we choose to play out the attributes of our sex on a social stage; girls can like pink and boys can like football. Of course, if you are a girl who wants to play football or a boy who wants to wear a pink dress, gender can be a very cruel and confining prison and many of us are keen to reject its regressive stereotyping.

But we cannot reject our sex. We cannot ‘identify’ into or out of it. Women in particular are oppressed and harmed because of their sex. Most men are bigger, stronger and faster than most women. Sex is therefore a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010 and women are lawfully entitled to access to single sex spaces.