My first blooding in the Terf Wars
When I moved to Glasgow 12 years ago, I joined two groups which were to have a profound effect on my political outlook. And set me on a course that culminated recently in 6 solid months of stress, my first intimate experience of a political split and my first proper blooding in the Terf wars. The first was a very small, trans inclusive feminist group. It was in this group that I coined the ridiculous phrase "are now or have been a woman" in an attempt to find a form of words which would allow us to keep a very nice young woman who identified as non binary and kick out two sexist blokes who err… also identified as non binary. If you know anything about contemporary trans politics you will instantly see that this tack was offensive to all parties but, hey, my heart was in the right place. I was trying to be inclusive. The two non binary blokes…..I later talked to a member of the group about them in private. She felt that at least one of...