On hearing that a trans-woman, the activist Steph Richards, was to be appointed CEO of an endometriosis charity, many feminists rolled our eyes, wondering if parody was dead.
There has been huge pushback against appointing a biological male as head of an organisation concerned with women’s gynaecological health, for obvious reasons. Many newspapers covered the issue, and I figured this would be one of those moments that might convince sceptics or even the ‘trans-women are women’ crew that this has all gone way too far.
When it was announced that Steph, along with Jodie Hughes, founder of Endometriosis South Coast and the Chair of Trustees (who appointed Steph to the role) would be on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour this morning, I was delighted. Emma Barnett is an excellent journalist, forensic in her questioning, and always meticulously prepared.
Not everyone was quite as pleased as I was, though.
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