D Franklin

The claims the article makes about the actual book go unrebutted and unreplied to (and Twitter has plenty of rebuttals to lift, just as they lifted other responses).

We don't hear from a trans person until literally the very last paragraph of the article. Cis authors? Sure. Other trans authors? No. Torrey herself? Not until the very closing paragraph.

The article quotes the Prize organisers saying: “anyone who is legally defined as a woman can be entered for the prize by a publisher … the word ‘woman’ equates to a cis woman, or a transgender woman who is legally defined as a woman.”

A reminder: legal definition isn't what makes trans women, women, especially as arbitrary barriers and outright impossibility are far more common than trans-friendly legal policies.

A further reminder: in 2019, the Prize longlisted Akwaeke Emezi. If it was under this policy, they longlisted them based not on their gender, but their *assumed legal gender*.