Mick Hartley

Victoria Smith sees the opposition to the Supreme Court ruling as yet another demonstration of how trans activism is the progressive man's politically acceptable way to hate women:

Trans activism has radicalised the kind of man who would not be seen dead looking up “standard” manosphere influencers yet is drawn to their ideas. He may already have a dehumanised image of women from the porn he watches, but knows that he is “meant” to see women as fully-fledged humans all the same. For years he might have kept his misogyny in check, then along came the trans woman, magic emissary from Planet Gender, to reassure him that no, all the worst things he secretly thinks about women, those frivolous, masochistic whores? They’re true and it’s great! In fact, it’s bigotry to think otherwise! Yes, old-style women — “those dinosaurs”, as Ricky Gervais so accurately put it — might object, but the new-style women, “good as gold”, have arrived to set them straight. 

And these new style women are, of course, trans women. Men. Men who now define what a women is for the benefit of progressive men. And it turns out to be just what these progressive men – well, enough of them – always really thought women were. Sluts.

The hardest thing about being a woman, says Caitlin Jenner, is “figuring out what to wear”, while Grace Lavery fantasises over being “fetishised […] as a slutty girl is”. Andrea Long Chu sniggers that Gigi Gorgeous, a trans influencer, “is a TERF’s worst nightmare: a shameless cosmetic miracle, assembled by a team of plastic surgeons, endocrinologists, agents, and marketers — a walking, talking advertisement”:

Gorgeous has sanded her personality down to the bare essentials. She laughs at what is funny, she cries at what is sad, and she is miraculously free of serious opinions. She has become, in the most technical sense of this phrase, a dumb blonde.

Note that this is not “a feminist’s worst nightmare”, but “a TERF’s”. Trans activism has relegated actual feminism, with its claim that women are full human beings, to the status of TERFdom while claiming the word ‘feminism’ for itself. By doing so, it has told every embittered, basement-dwelling leftist misogynist that his belief that women are not fully human is entirely justified. That if women didn’t secretly enjoy their abject status, they’d cut off their breasts and identify out of it. This is radicalisation. It has made monsters of those who might otherwise have merely been casual sexists.

It is in this context that we should see the current backlash against the supreme court definition of “woman” — not just in practical terms (who uses which toilet?), but ideological ones (are women people at all?). Trans activism’s MRA army have been particularly incensed at the prospect of defining women in relation to their biology, and have sought to claim that this is biological essentialism. Of course, their rage is not at the thought of female humans — who will exist, no matter what you call us — being reduced to walking wombs (after all, they’re quite happy to call us “uterus havers” or “gestators”). Their rage is at the word “woman” being associated with non-pornified, ageing, flesh-and-blood female bodies — bodies with hair, wrinkles and odours, bodies housing diverse, creative, non-bimbo brains — rather than with plastic-breasted, wide-eyed fantasies. It is not for nothing that “protect the dolls” has become the go-to slogan for “supporting trans women”. Protect the fantasy of dehumanised womanhood from the threat of those saggy-breasted boner-killers, the adult human females!

"Protect the dolls". T-shirts as worn by all the right people, from Tilda Swinton to Pedro Pascal to Connor Ives (who? – ed). Says it all. "Dolls". 

The supreme court judgement was not about whether women are biologically female or a joyous, inclusive mix of identities. At its most basic level, it was about whether women are human or a porn stereotype. Humanity won. A significant number of men are so angry about this they’re threatening to rape and kill us.  

This is what radicalisation looks like and women are not safe. We are condemned by incels and trans activists alike for existing as humans rather than objects, and politicians, in thrall to fictional rather than actual extremism, still say nothing. The longer they do so, the more things will escalate (as Jeni Harvey has written, this is “the most dangerous time”).

The pandering has to stop. It really is time for the world to wake up.