This is a classic of its genre:

1. If 'not all women have cervixes, and not everyone who has a cervix is a woman,' then the word 'woman' means something other than 'female.'

2. You have therefore redefined the word 'woman' so it no longer refers to sex, but to gender.

3. Redefining the word woman so that it means gender is to erase female people as a political class.

4. Female people are oppressed on the basis of sex, and are protected under the law on that basis

5. To claim that the erasure of female people as a political class

'harms nobody,' 'costs little' and is 'basic and harmless' is a straight-up propagandist lie of dizzying magnitude.

6. To claim that female people objecting to the erasure of their own political class are guilty of 'hostility' and 'intense transphobia' is to leverage age-old

patriarchal rage to smear women who won't abnegate themselves to serve male needs, and to do so with the intent of subverting democratic due process.

Solidarity with Rosie Duffield.

@Keir_Starmer