How are the Greens getting it wrong?

I think of us as the canaries in a coal mine. Miners carried canaries (yellow birds) in cages. They are more sensitive to carbon monoxide than humans. If the canary died, the miner had knew that the air was poisoned and could escape. If trans people are safe, it’s safe for everyone.

Yes, bullying has become legitimised.

The transphobes are getting desperate.

I was alive then and can assure everyone that it felt drably, unrelentingly, beige. Remember blackouts and the 3-day week?
Life On Mars was triggering - it was just like being there. Things are better today.

I went to an independent boys school in the 1970s. We were neither taught to type nor to cook- that’s what women were for. We were prepared to be lawyers, doctors, bankers, politicians. These people are still in positions of power, but thankfully approaching retirement.

Whether the biological essentialists realise this, or if it’s an unintended consequence of the “protect women and girls” mantra, is unclear. Whichever it is, we cannot cede the narrative to the patriarchy. Feminists- know they are attacking trans people because they are coming for all women.

The biological essentialist approach is profoundly anti-feminist. It’s the patriarchy re-asserting the view that women are defined by their “weakness” and ability to bear children.

The friction arises from the competing concepts of “biology is not destiny” (people can change gender) vs biological essentialism (“biological sex”). Their view is consistent if trans people remain their gender at birth.

I wonder whether this is what Putin has on Trump, or whether it’s other kompromat. He clearly has something.

6 years ago. It seems like a bygone age.