The arguments for excluding biologically male athletes from women’s sports are pretty compelling. But, as with the “perverts in toilets” arguments, they are also a lightning rod for bigoted attitudes… (View Post)

“Declare themselves women”. That would be those pretendy fancy dress “trans-identified men” again. The transplaining is strong in this one. (View Post)

Exactly my worry. Not the judgment, but the reaction to it. The story gives certain people licence to say what they were always thinking: that trans people are all dangerous freaks, men in frocks, pe… (View Post)

“Small country”. A little tell, there. Just a little one. (View Post)

Truss in Reform would be a gift to the Tories. It would make voters think seriously about Reform economic policy. Every step she takes into the MAGA universe must make Kwasi Kwarteng pause. He seems … (View Post)