Deliberately Misrepresenting The Issue

Finn Mackay is the author of Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars and is a senior lecturer in sociology. And the 'Guardian' wheels him out to lecture us all on what's really going on with gender wars::

The UK’s national LGBTQ+ charity, Stonewall, has recently been accused of advocating for trans rights.

Who cares if it 'advocates for trans rights' (although it's hard to see what rights they don't already have)? 

No-one. It's the fact they are encouraging those rights to trump those of others that's the issue, and well you know it.

In 2017, the then prime minister Theresa May promised that these reforms would be carried out, and at a Pink News awards event assured the audience that the Conservative government did not see being trans as a mental illness, and the process of acquiring a GRC would be simplified.

It'd be easier to understand them 'not seeing it as a mental illness' if the most vocal advocates weren't clearly utterly deranged, wouldn't it? 

...due to misunderstandings of what these proposals would mean in practice, these concerns grew.

No, it wasn't 'misunderstandings' at all. It was the utter lunacy of cases like this one.  

The current gender wars are not a fight against the binary roles that constrict our society, instead this particular manifestation of the culture wars is a battle against trans women in particular.

No, it's not. And I expect most trans women - like most gays and lesbians when Stonewall was ortiginally founded - want nothing more than to be left alone to live their lives. 

As always, it's the spokepersons for this 'cause' who are intent on pushing and pushing because it's validating their own warped worldview. And giving them something to do.  

It seems as if the Conservative government has purposely fuelled and exacerbated the gender wars in order to consolidate its base.

Really? You think this is a Conservative government that panders to its base? That even knows what its base is...?

This debate may remain contentious for some time, but any lesbian, gay or bisexual person, in particular, supporting the current war on trans people, should remember that while T is near the end of our acronym, the other letters are just further back in the queue. Any talk of the movement going too far, or the community getting too broad is just a shameless display of exclusion, pointing at someone else you think is weirder than you and saying they are the real problem. But tomorrow’s weirdo could be you.

Trust me, it won't be.