Mick Hartley

On the subject of Canada….from Margaret Atwood's interview in today's Sunday Times:

Atwood is wary of the debate over trans rights, but she has firm views on the flexibility of gender. “There is a bell curve. This is why you need to know biology,” she says. "Stuck in the desert, the writers of Genesis had no idea about the hermaphrodite sex lives of “snails and bivalves”, she points out.

Eh? But…we're not snails. Nor, indeed, are we bivalves…

The trans issue has bitterly divided the feminist movement. “Has nobody considered the fact that there are agents provocateurs in the mix? People are pretending [and] saying outrageous things to get real trans people in trouble,” she says. “If this isn’t happening, it’s the first time in history.”