Good piece
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-and-the-road-to-terfdom/amp?__twitter_impression=true
One of the tweets in response to JK Rowling's latest tweet about menstruating people is that "'I disagree with her opinion that cis-women are the most vulnerable minority in this situation and I think she's on the wrong side of this debate." At least the person acknowledged that Twitter was the wrong forum for these discussions to take place.
It's very odd when it all become a competition about who gets raped more, who gets attacked more, who feels more traumatised and suicidal after an assault, whose life gets ruined more? After centuries, just as women finally start to feel like things are moving in the right direction to give them more protection, they get thrown under the bus because men who merely self-identify as women are suddenly more deserving of protection.
Who has the right to make the calculation that cis women's vulnerability is less important? It's not exactly surprising if there are many people fighting back against the notion that a certain number of vulnerable women being sexually assaulted by men who have gained access to them by pretending to be women is a price worth paying to protect the identity, and dignity of a minority of vulnerable trans women. That the trans lobby want to ignore this moral issue and want to silence the voices of those who bring it up rather than work towards discussions and solutions that protect cis women from being raped seems highly misogynistic to me.
It's amazing how easy some people seem to find it to make these calculations about how much trauma different groups of people should be put through. End of discussion - all those who don't agree with the dogma should be cast out of society immediately. Apparently people who accept their biological identity are less deserving of protection because....sexual assault for cis women is less traumatic than the trauma of people who feel mentally unstable because their biology is different from their current, self-proclaimed, arbitrary identity based on a feeling (which based on evidence may change a few years later as the mood takes them).
It's similar to the issue of complainants being automatically believed when they allege sexual assault or rape against a man - and his trauma in being arrested, and publicly shamed, potentially losing his job, his home and his family's trauma over a false allegation is considered less important. Not surprisingly that's an on-going discussion too because many people think it damages society to be so dismissive of someone else's very real trauma.
