Nature shows how silly gender-neutral words are, says Mary Kenny
I sat across the table from the late April Ashley at a pre-pandemic Oldie lunch and thought her amazing. She was a beautiful old lady – she died in 2021 – as she once had been a beautiful young man. She made history as one of the first openly transgender people and she had to struggle against prejudice and mockery to affirm her right to be respected for who she was. But there’s a difference between accepting and respecting an individual person who has gender dysphoria and rushing headlong into a rigid ideology of transgenderism – in which official organisations and powerful corporations have taken to alluding to women as ‘pregnant people’ and ‘people who menstruate’. It has been proclaimed that breastfeeding, known to all female mammals, should now be called ‘chestfeeding’ – so as not to offend transgender parents with chests rather than breasts. Let’s not start on the...
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