Evan Urquhart

Given GCs use that phrase because they are literally critical of the concept of innate gender and the stereo types it relies on ... is it not part of your job as a journalist to explain what it means to the uninformed (agreeing or not as u see fit) /end

To the best of my knowledge, every trans person in academia is also "literally critical of the concept of innate gender and the stereotypes it relies on" as are non-TERF feminists/rad fems, so that's not really a distinguishing factor.

Hang on ... assuming you expouse TWAW/TMAM ... how can you not adhere to a belief in innate gender? What makes you trans if not a gender that is innate and separate to your sex ?

I am a humble journalist, not a scholar of either trans studies or feminism. However: You can reconcile these in many ways. The easiest to write briefly would be to say, gender is performance so the performance is the reality. By performing "man" one becomes "man".

Yea, I don’t buy that....

Don't buy that it's an example of something you seemed to think didn't exist, or simply don't agree with it?

I don’t agree with it. Sex is a material reality... what you describe is not.

OK. I didn't expect you to agree, already said my own ideas are more complicated. You said it was impossible to believe trans men are men/trans women are women without believing in innate gender identity. Now you understand it's perfectly possible, yes?