0px”>Starmer, just like Harriet Harman, cannot admit that what we know now is completely different to what was known during the passing of the GRA in 2004 and the Equality Act in 2010. Apart from the few prescient feminist voices out there, I doubt many people were anticipating that soon there would be claims that trans women could menstruate and breastfeed, or that lesbians would be told by Stonewall to overcome their genital preferences, or that women in general would end up being rebranded vagina owners, uterus havers, bleeders and the like. Likewise, little attention was paid to the tremendous influence of misogyny-soaked porn on the self-perception of trans-identified males. The trans woman for whom the GRA was written was Coronation Street’s Hayley Cropper, the post-operative trans woman who never once told Roy that “sissy porn made me trans” or that she liked nothing better than being “treated like a piece of meat”. Today, we know how male people behave when it is made easier for them to identify as women. It is not like Hayley Cropper.
So yes, there's a genuine problem: the issue of men being legally able to claim that they've changed sex has not worked out well for women. Not that the Eye cares.
Another Eye column mentions the Starmer – Rosie Duffield disagreement:
Why the obsession with what's in people's pants? Bluntly, because Rishi Sunak knows it reliably generates him favourable headlines on GB News and in right-wing papers.
Hmm. Clear enough, I think. Gender-critical is just right-wing obfuscation.
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