When this madness ends, which it will, one of the ugliest things to look back on will be how women weren't even allowed to the dignity of owning their sex-specific trauma. The misogyny is simply breathtaking.

The only people who consider it 'anti-feminist' to point out that a woman is a woman by virtue of her biology are those who think female-specific anatomy or bodily functions are inferior in some way, that bearing young is a lowly, worthless occupation, or that misogynist social stereotypes are a worthier measure of who's a real woman. Possessing the equipment for egg production should neither tie you to any particular destiny, nor diminish the human being who has it; the female reproductive system is neither shameful nor lesser, but it's certainly treated that way in too many parts of the world. Indeed, it's treated that way by plenty of misogynists in supposedly liberal democracies, which might partially explain why so many young women have come to believe that, if they want to be accorded full personhood rather than becoming a pornified sex object, they'll only be able to do it by erasing all physical signs of femaleness. The problem is not their anatomy, it's the society, or indeed the family, that made them feel that way. Pretending sex differences don't matter does nothing to advance the lot of women and girls. Promoting the idea that men can become women by performing their idea of what a woman is - which, funnily enough, often turns out to be a pornified sex object - does not liberate women and girls. The attempt to redefine the word 'woman' by dismissing female biology benefits only the men who've been eagerly helping themselves to women's protected spaces, sport, opportunities and honours - or, in the Fox Batterer's case, who've jumped eagerly onto the movement's coattails because they're spotlight addicts and believe they'll go down in history as Genderism's Gandhi.

All these years, and I had no idea I was the cure 🙏