Christine Burns 2021: Silly older women: they can't comprehend the difference between transexuals and transvestites.
Christine Burns 2014 (writing about 2004): deliberate vagueness was a clever strategy we came up with at Press for Change
Christine Burns 2021: putting everything together into one umbrella term is bad, and something Stonewall came up with themselves
Christine Burns 2014: we used the confusion we had created over what "trans" meant to push organisations way beyond what the case law said
Christine Burns 2021: it was definitely Stonewall's idea, and it's not a problem anyway because no one is trying to use legal wins by transsexuals to open doors for transvestites
Christine Burns 2014: We used legal cases won by transsexuals to open doors for transvestites. Without spelling it out, obviously.
For reference: the 2014 quotes are from Volume 2 of Burns' memoir: Pressing Matters
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