Some fear that trans women threaten women’s hard-won gains in sports & political short-lists.
Surely, if we want to end gender inequalities, we should prioritise austerity, gov & workplace policies.
NOT a tiny group that experiences huge discrimination.
Solidarity makes us 
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Or low wages and precarious that curb women’s economic autonomy. Those are all big issues hugely affecting many women in Britain today, increasing their vulnerability to violence & other forms of abuse.
Sure as I said, there are many issues. I dont think it helps though to give up the word (& analysis) that reflects there is oppression affecting female people. Why redefine this group as having adopted an identity 'woman' or sharing a mystical internal feeling of womanhood?
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And as I said there are a set of live questions. e.g. "Who should be allowed to play in women's sports" ....to which the answer cannot be -"That does not matter enough to have a clear debate and concern for fairness. There are bigger issues in the world"
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There are real costs to this debate: to questioning who counts, who is allowed to be who they want to be. Such speech legitimises those who want to hurt an already discriminated against group. It’s like Trump’s overblown migrant “crisis”.
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I'm deleting tweets after I interpreted Maya here to be describing the reality of being trans as "having a mystical internal feeling" whereas she meant to be describing how some people (not her) are trying to define womanhood.
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