I know sex is real and believe it matters, therefore I am a transphobe.

That’s all it takes.

Arrest me.

Sack me.

Harass me.

Defame me.

Cast me out of polite society.

Urinate on my office door.

Smokebomb my meeting.

Bang on my windows.

Assault me at Hyde Park Corner.

Make me call my rapist “she.”

Take my children into care.

Make me need security guards to give lectures.

Kick me off my law journal.

Laugh at my losses.

Attack me outside a lecture theatre.

Make me look over my shoulder as I walk the streets with my kids.

Force me to remain anonymous.

And when I say “something is wrong,” give me the silent treatment.

All these things, and worse (let’s not even start with Dana Rivers & Kimberley Nixon...) have been done to women here, for defending our rights.

Women are female.

Arrest me.

“Transphobe” = witch

Society deems it fine to burn witches

But these witches won’t burn

It’s proper, in our times, to be a transphobe when the alternative is coerced dissociation from sexed reality.

I’m transphobic and proud.

I’ve also reached the limit of tolerating the harm inflicted on women for defending our rights.

The sex denialism takeover can go no further.

Our bodies are the buffers standing in the way.

Our insistence on plain, clear, ordinary language—and our right to speak it whenever we so choose—stands in the way.

And I should add...

Kick me out of my political party

Make me politically homeless

Make me need security guards to talk about my art

Harass, terrorise and doxx me online

Leave me with nowhere to show my films

Prevent me getting my books published

Rescind my awards

Burn my books

Bombard me with hate speech

Isolate me

Gaslight me

Silence me?

No.

Why do I rail and rail?

So as not to succumb to the despair and lassitude which follows a series of shocks.

Sex denlialsist won’t shock us into silence & compliance.

Rail I shall, until its beyond question—once again—that women are entitled to our own spaces & resources.

Until it’s beyond question to know, and say, that women are female.

And I should also have added...

...throw me out of the public square & confine my voice to the home by banning me from social media!