It's Friday and I'm a bit fed up but I just re-read this by @janeclarejones and it really made me larf.. Quite brilliantly it manages to accurately convey recent history in the trans/feminist culture wars, whilst hilariously taking piss at same time. https://janeclarejones.com/2018/11/13/the-annals-of-the-terf-wars/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
The Annals of the TERF-Wars

So, yesterday this turned up in my feed, which struck me as something of an, um, mispresentation… and somehow, I ended up writing my own version of how this whole thing went down…  …

https://janeclarejones.com/2018/11/13/the-annals-of-the-terf-wars/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
(Presumably that's at least partly because historical reality in this area is so close to satire)
It's a tragicomedy. "Prequel: A long time ago in a lesbian bar that no longer exists..."
"Two-spirit people burble burble sex is a spectrum burble clown fish burble burble intersex people burble burble some women don’t have ovaries burble social construct burble Judith Butler

(Academics with cool-girl syndrome and assorted edgelords and wokebros: JUDITH BUTLER!!!!)"
It's funny cos its true.
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