[Crabcakes]

Thoroughly recommend the recent 2-part Origin Story podcast on JK Rowling. It lays out her descent into full-on troll while remaining sympathetic, balanced and fair, as well as tackling some of the terrible “research” used to back up the rights-eroding political changes of late.

It also touches on the Hampstead ponds debacle.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This sounds remarkably self-aware by Sharron Davies. Alternatively, as Iain Macleod said about Enoch Powell, it's one thing to be a fell traveller, it's quite another to stay on the train while it crashes through the station buffers. Mr Wynter might also reflect on that.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Here's another person who might reflect on Macleod's words. One minute you're protecting women's sports, the next you're monitoring Police office at Pride marches.

[Crabcakes]

A long, but very well written and interesting read on how banning trans kids in sport was always a gateway, not an end in itself.

https://www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable-concerns

[Abernathy]

I’ve just read this piece. Maybe I’ve missed something, but it looks like it can be summarised thus :

- Trans-gender kid grows up, experiencing prejudice, hatred, trauma, and wilful misunderstanding.

- Trans -gender kid finds inordinate comfort in the works of J.K. Rowling. Becomes something of a mega fan.

- Trans-gender kid, now grown-up and successful, says that she is now in great pain because JK Rowling, the author of the stories she loves, because Ms. Rowling allegedly considers her “not valid” .

She does not elaborate on what exactly Rowling has said or done to cause her such pain, and explicitly refuses to argue logically against any of the, in my view extremely cogent , points that Rowling makes in her essay on the subject of a couple of years ago. It’s almost as if for her it is taken as read that Rowling is a malevolent TERF.

I can’t see the point of this. Lord knows what Jo Rowling makes of it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jk-rowli ... 1P_b_4BK4g

[Tubby Isaacs]

A long, but very well written and interesting read on how banning trans kids in sport was always a gateway, not an end in itself.

https://www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable-concerns

It's good to see an acknowledgment of the issue around women's sports in there. I don't think the IOC are wrong though, and don't understand why he thinks they are.

I can see of course that there's a wider agenda than sports and single sex spaces, but doesn't that make it more important to deal with these issues in a way that satisfies a wider public than have been satisfied by them? Because treating these matters as not being up for debate hasn't worked.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I’ve just read this piece. Maybe I’ve missed something, but it looks like it can be summarised thus :

- Trans-gender kid grows up, experiencing prejudice, hatred, trauma, and wilful misunderstanding.

- Trans -gender kid finds inordinate comfort in the works of J.K. Rowling. Becomes something of a mega fan.

- Trans-gender kid, now grown-up and successful, says that she is now in great pain because JK Rowling, the author of the stories she loves, because Ms. Rowling allegedly considers her “not valid” .

She does not elaborate on what exactly Rowling has said or done to cause her such pain, and explicitly refuses to argue logically against any of the, in my view extremely cogent , points that Rowling makes in her essay on the subject of a couple of years ago. It’s almost as if for her it is taken as read that Rowling is a malevolent TERF.

I can’t see the point of this. Lord knows what Jo Rowling makes of it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jk-rowli ... 1P_b_4BK4g

Rowling's embraced the Terf label, hasn't she?