Maya Forstater

Actually my position is the one that has caused people to lose their jobs and receive death threats. I have been DMed by legal academics calling me brave. It is chanting TWAW that is popular woke position now. I am not for reducing trans rights. They need *trans rights*.

Also, your position totally forgets trans men, who need trans rights too, but, in your opinion, not women rights, because, although biologically female, they are men. Since they are men, does it mean they do not get any specific rights, or are they only ones who get trans rights?

Have we moved to trans men now? There are many areas of law and policy that need thinking to accommodate trans rights. I don't have your simple solutions antagonising women's rights (some linked to gender roles & not biology) with trans women.

How on earth can we have rights linked to gender roles? Which roles? Act ladylike, wear makeup, be submissive and you get certain rights, but speak up, fail to comply with the social dress code and you lose them? How does this work?

Why do you need to ridicule others to make a point? Some women's rights are based on our biology. Others try to reverse structural inequalities that are the product of a system where we have been assigned a particular position in society with (at times) defined roles.

I am not trying to ridicule, I am trying to understand. You say there are some *womens* rights that should be extended to male people on the basis of performing gendered roles (and presumably denied to female people who don't). I am and asking which roles you are thinking of?

I'm saying that (despite your shock horror) trans people exist and they're discriminated everywhere in the world. They are not only big white trans who looks like a stereotype man. We need to engage in a conversation that is not about attacking a marginalised group.

I'm not arguing against concern for discrimination people face because of being trans. You made a specific proposal that there are some aspects of women's rights that should be made contingent on performing gender roles - can you see the problem w this? Or expand and explain?