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It will serve rational conservatives well to highlight more trans (and gay) voices who can explain how queerness undermines everything they're striving for in their lives. I don't agree with every take of this author (for example, I believe sports should be segregated based on birth sex which is not "assigned at birth" but rather recorded while the mother is still pregnant). But the point that putting gender on a spectrum diametrically opposes the binary gender presentation that gender dysphoric people seek is worthwhile and should not be regarded as transphobic. I'm not transphobic. I'm bullshitphobic.

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I started feeling you were saying something very important but I'm afraid I gave up at the women's sports stuff. You obviously do not care about the safety of woemn. You can no longer speak for women.

You sound a thinker, and I wish you well, but you also sound sadly like someone who has taken on the arrogance of men in relation to women's rights. I do not believe that male biology can ever be equated with a complete understanding of the female condition. And vica versa.

If you want to be male then surely that sets you aside from women who like being women.

And the psychology of trans identities is something we need to discuss. And you can do this much better than I can. The more that non-aggressive trans people speak up the better.

Also I am not a cis women. I am awoman. You are a trans man. What is wrong with those definitions? Equal but different in my mind. Own the trans. You cannot actually change sex.

And I'm afraid a woman is not someone who presents as a woman!

And people are born a certain sex, not allocated/assigned a sex at birth. Genetics matter and its pointless to try to pretend otherwise.

Women have fought for a very long time to gain recognition and rights and e.g. their own sports categories. Men kept women out of a lot of sports and are not now going to push men who have been through the physically emboldening male puberty into womens categories - not men who want to be women, or who want to push women out for their own self aggrandisment. Well I never! As if a man could possibly be so motivated!

We women will continue to fight. We have been at the sharp end of sexual assault by males, and continue to be so. Lets call it rape. Male violence. Testosterone fuelled aggression.

We are in many cases, not all, at the beck and call of our ovaries, our wombs, our bleeding, our ability to bear children, or inability to do so, menopause. This is our destiny, gay or straight. The patriarchy exists believe me. I've been a woman for a long time and experienced it all.

To resonate with JKRowling .....Live as you want, love as you want, dress as you want - and I genuinely send you love and a sincere wishes for your happiness. And pass as best as possible as a woman - or a male - if you need to. But sex will always matter, and strong female identity is hard won for those of us who are women, and we treasure it. Own and treasure your trans identity and your unique human identity.

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