[Crabcakes]

No.

The post Malc quoted from Good Law was about claims the BBC censor negative lgbtq coverage (part of the content of the memo leaked to the telegraph that led to the recent resignations of senior bbc staff), and other bit refers to the results of a YouGov poll.

I’m not sure what you’re saying “no” to/about?

[davidjay]

He's got a point that some people have gone mad after becoming very gender critical, like Sharon Davies. I don't know if that's true of Hadley Freeman.

I know Linehan did it because of the IT Crowd incident and I get the impression Rowling doubled- and trebled-down after some originally comparatively mild comments, but what caused Sharron Davies to go like that? Was it just seeing trans swimmers competing with women or was there something else?

[Crabcakes]

I’m convinced for some people it’s an inability to suppress revulsion at something different and a sense of an already vulnerable target. It’s why the grief is almost always aimed at trans women, and more specifically those trans women that cannot pass as well as others. Hence the insults “we can always tell” and calling them blokes etc. - very few anti-trans activists target bearded, muscular trans men.

For Linehan, I think he wants to be seen as a white knight riding to the rescue - and the irony is, he was seen like that when he was fighting for abortion rights in Ireland. For Davis, I’d say the signs were always there - Tory fan, thought decriminalising homelessness was a mistake, plus personal bitterness at losing a gold medal to an East German athlete who had been put on testosterone - so a combination of feeling hard done by, and a natural bully from being right leaning.

[Andy McDandy]

Davies is an athlete, not an academic. She's never come across as particularly erudite on anything other than running very fast.

[Boiler]

Davies is an athlete, not an academic. She's never come across as particularly erudite on anything other than running very fast.

Swimming, surely?

[Andy McDandy]

Forward motion at speed.

Sorry, brain not braining too good.

[Boiler]

No problem.