The misogynist mob strikes again. Its target this time was the American swimmer Riley Gaines. What was her offence? What did this young woman do to attract the attention — and the jeers and insults and threats — of the woke witchfinder-generals? She said men should not compete in women’s sports. Obscene. Fetch the ducking stool.
This is Gaines’ heresy: to refuse to believe that trans women are women; to prefer the light of scientific and moral reason over the delusions of the mob
Ms Gaines was mobbed at San Francisco State University. She had just given a speech on why women’s sports must be for women only, not biological males who think they’re women. She has direct experience of just how unjust it is when people who’ve been through male puberty — what we used to call ‘men’ — are allowed to hit the pool or the track alongside female athletes.
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