Yesterday I attended the first online event of @LabWomenDec - Labour Women's Declaration. The speakers were uniformly excellent, incisive, in complete control of their topics, lucid, articulate and good-humoured. Today I watched the @Womans_Place_UK session on the proposed .../1

... guidelines for the sex question in next year's census. Ably chaired by @selina_todd, it featured Lisa MacKenzie, Dr Clare Jones and Prof. Alice Sullivan. Again, all thoroughly well-versed in their fields, presenting cogent arguments against what appears to be a .../2

... concerted attempt to ensure that the question conflates sex and gender in a way that undermines the primary purpose of collecting such data. You can watch the former at http://labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/  soon and the latter at now. .../3

All very inspiring. But what struck me is that, although I see many such expert, well-informed women (and some men) presenting arguments backed up by evidence, never accompanied by any abuse or threats, I have yet to see anything approaching this .../4

... level of sophistication from the transactivist side.

So my question is this - and it's a genuine, honest one: where are the people who can put transactivist arguments in a thorough, evidenced and rational way? If no such people exist, what explains the .../5

... large-scale institutional capture of organisations as diverse as governmental departments, universities, companies and the police?

Perhaps they do exist, and I've missed them. Let's see.