Courting Supremacy
The Patriarchy are at it again…
This week, on the 15th April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled on a case brought by campaign group For Women Scotland about the definition of the words ‘women’ and ‘sex’ in the Equalities Act 2010. They concluded that the terms refer to ‘biological women’ and ‘biological sex’.
For Women Scotland’s case was funded in part by a donation of £70,000 from author J K Rowling, who celebrated the ‘victory’ with a cigar and a drink in her ring bedecked hands, whilst sitting on the deck of a luxury yacht.
Rowling has famously had issues with defining the word woman…
You know what never works out how bigots think it will? Gatekeeping.
Particularly gatekeeping sex and gender.
Remember all those times smartarsed Gender Critical people thought they could win an argument by asking, “What is a woman? Can you define woman, if you’re so sure you are one?”
Ask them that back. What IS a “biological woman”? I can guarantee there is not a single answer that excludes trans women and doesn’t exclude some cis women too. And if you’re so keen on protecting women, then that alone should stop you immediately from going down that path.
After all, ‘people with wombs’, ‘people who menstruate’ and ‘cervix havers’ are not acceptable ways to define women, right? I remember that lesson from St Joanne. You can’t have one rule to try and exclude trans men, and then deny it’s a rule when you want to exclude trans women.
Trans women are women. They are also biological. So, biological women. What this ruling is avoiding saying is only cis women are women, because then it would be clear this is solely about excluding trans women.
It’s all about demonising trans women, who I’ve yet to see demonstrated to be a threat to other women of any kind.
“Yes, but, but… penis!” they cry. So, you can’t be within six feet of a penis, ever? Or you can’t run the risk of seeing one? Penises are inherently dangerous?
“No, no. But it’s a way for Predatory Men to access women’s spaces! If we let trans women in, then we have to let Predatory Men in, too!” So, trans women are ok, just not Predatory Men in disguise as trans women? I expect that’s been happening a whole lot, to be such a concern. It must have been happening all the time, before these new rules protecting “biological women” were put in place. Throughout all of previous human history…
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(Hint: the answer is No. it simply doesn’t happen. Never has)
Oh, and then can we do the bit about how Predatory Men can disguise themselves as trans women, because obviously they couldn’t just disguise themselves as actual women, because “We Can Always Tell”?
If you can always tell, I’m not sure what the issue is? Oh, and btw. You can’t. In fact, you’re laughably bad at it.
And seriously bad, too.
It’s really easy to say that you can tell someone is trans when they’ve told you they’re trans. You don’t get a prize for saying that you can tell that people who are proudly transgender are transgender. But what you instead end up with is people telling non-gender conforming cis women that they are trans, and they shall not pass!
Bitch, I don’t NEED to pass. Did every wave of feminism wash over you without even making you damp? “Being a woman is not dress up! It’s not about pretty dresses and makeup and having no bodily hair!” Ok, so why are you always targeting women who don’t do those things, purely because they don’t do those things?
“It’s really simple. You’re either a man or a woman. XY or XX. It’s basic biology.”
Yeah, that is demonstrably, scientifically, biologically not true. Idiots are using transphobia as a wrecking ball and taking down exactly the women they claim to be protecting. Lesbians. Non-gender conforming women. Butch women. Post menopausal women…
If they can’t accurately define “biological women” in a way that doesn’t exclude some “biological women”, how am I going to prove that I’m a biological woman if someone wants to challenge my access to women’s spaces? Or women’s sports? Or women’s rights?
It’s harder than you think to prove your sex. I’ve been accused of being trans (not an insult, btw) because I argued for trans rights. And you know, there was no way to make the bigots recognise that I was one of the precious, chosen cis women, because how do you do that, without sequencing someone’s DNA? Which does not come down to a binary XX or XY even when you do.
Ask them about where this legislation leaves trans men.
Then non-binary people.
Intersex people.
They all exist too. I have never seen one coherent, logical demonstration of how anyone who isn’t me harms me just because they exist.
Harming me in the guise of saying you’re protecting me, however? That happens far too often for my liking. The thing we should all be clear about legislating against is misogyny. If you want to defend women’s rights, then stand against misogyny.
Transphobia is misogyny. It harms all of our rights to be women in whatever way we choose, and still be women.
You’re making things less safe for ALL women. Stop that.
