My husband was never comfortable being married to a sex discrimination commissioner. Occasionally, to enrage my feminist friends and me, he would airily declare he was a lesbian trapped in a man’s body, then sit back and enjoy my furious mortification. Now, it appears he was merely a man ahead of his time.Way back then, of course, sex discrimination meant discrimination on the grounds of sex. Biological sex was its only recognised form. This included not only discrimination based on the physical consequences of being a woman, namely menstruation, childbearing and breastfeeding, but also discrimination based on the many assumptions made about women’s cognitive capacities, moral virtues and obligations.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
On gender, the sex commissioner is gaslighting us
The commissioner’s recent declaration that trans women can be considered potentially pregnant had every hairdresser talking, and not in a way that was good for her.
130 words~1 min read
