The problem that gender self-ID is designed to solve is real but the debate has failed

Oct 20, 2018 by

by Helen Lewis, New Statesman:

Any prospect of a serious discussion about balancing rights has been squashed by hair-trigger accusations of bigotry.

[…]  The idea that we must accept anyone’s identity claims, no matter how outlandish or divorced from material reality, leads to some strange places. Gendered Intelligence, a non-profit that receives Lottery funding and has collaborated with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Science Museum and Wellcome Trust, recently held a youth workshop in north London with “the Redwoods”.

The Redwoods are not only trans, but a “multiple” – they claim to be eight people in the same body, “and most of us are women and non-binary”. (Their daily struggles, chronicled on Twitter, will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever tried to get several young children dressed and out of the house in the morning.) “We are tired of both trans and multiple experiences being erased, including by trans sanism,” they tweeted on 23 September. They are also oppressed by “singlet-normativity”. There is, inevitably, a hashtag: #PluralPride.

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