A piece by the feminist ‘journalist’ Sarah Ditum on Unherd. I’ve left some comments, mainly pointing to Janice Fiamengo’s excellent pieces on the trans issue.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
An interesting piece because it wriggles within itself. But keeps coming back to the point that it is feminists who have been in the vanguard of ignoring and indeed actively suppressing any evidence for innate sex differences. Its just that their reasons for this related to their usual key targets of escaping the implications of being the birthing human with a nurturing role for babies and infants and jobs that require little physical effort. This is why feminists such as Ditum find their stance on sport so difficult, because its in that context that they have to acknowledge considerable differences both physical and psychological in order to demand even males with low testosterone and other hormone treatments are excluded, because in sports you cannot fiddle things. Unlike messing about with the entry requirements for public service jobs such as the armed forces, firefighting and police. The truth is the feminist project is the origin, as admitted by such as la Bindel who in weak moments admits the “trans” lobby were “allies” right until they actually demanded “equal rights” with women. Much is made about the rather unlikely ability to police toilets or odd decisions by Prison Governors but the real issue is the fact that “equal sport” would mean males and former males would mean no woman would win anything at all (even in Chess it seems). I wonder how ready any feminist is to admit that if the tests for the military, fire or police services were to become sex or gender equal based on actually lifting a casualty, carrying a full equipment pack, running after a miscreant; there would too be precious few “sisters” winning places. And then, as Ditum worries ,what about some of the character, behaviour traits too….. Just as the demand for female versions of all sports is based on women’s inability to win, it sort of highlights that much the same reasoning is why there are “quotas” “targets” “positive action” in many public services, because otherwise there would similarly few “winners” in recruitment tests etc. She it quite right the whole issue is a big one for the feminist project.
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Thanks Nigel, I’ll post your comments on Ditum’s article.
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Somehow I suspect that as the illogicality becomes more evident the idealogues will double down on the “all males are inherently evil angle”, which has served them so well since the 70s. Or indeed from at least the high Victorian era. That accepts sexual difference after all and recasts the issue as one of punishing wickedness. It is after all the core of JK Rowling’s public position, that all males are abusive and trans women are simply a bit more wicked. Just as they have to deny the existence of males who are victims of females then trans men will also have to be air brushed away.
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