JK Rowling was against that phrase.. as many women are women who don’t menstruate. They are women by virtue of their chromosomal make up. Her argument is you can identify as any gender you like, but cannot fire people for pointing out that someone born one gender, is that gender. She was defending a university lecturer who was fired for teaching that fact.
You can identify as anything you like but it does not change the basic XX or XY, despite surgery or medication. That men identifying as women, will be placed in a female prison and will skew figures after rape, as it will be recorded as a woman on woman rape despite one having a fully functioning penis, is misguided to say the least. . Victims in Court find it hard that the rapist is now identifying as a woman and will be addressed as a woman. Women in prisons are expected to treat the person with a penis as a woman, even they they are assaulted by her, and are punished if they do not accord her with her chosen name or object to sharing a shower with man, who identifies as a woman.
Yet Women who identify as men are not placed in male prisons for safety.
It appears several police forces and prisons are receiving training from Stonewall, who have moved from being a group which supports and promotes goodwill for Homosexuals and now promote one view of transgender issues.
I have one friend who has transitioned with full treatment and surgery and seems happy in her new life. Another who, it appears, did not have enough counselling and is now back as Richard, albeit without his genitalia.
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