He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman

Victoria Smith

IT IS NO FUN BEING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF “the trans debate”. Given the choice between rainbows and kindness or binary sex and bigotry, who’d want to align themselves with the latter? This is why so many feminists, troubled by the insistence that “trans women are women”, go to great lengths to educate ourselves. This whole thing can’t just be what it looks like — men deciding that nothing of ours cannot be theirs, not even the very experience of being us. There must, we tell ourselves, be more to it than that. Like Debbie Hayton, what we tend to find — at least if we dare to keep tugging at the thread — is that we were right to start with. Hayton, a post-operative transwoman who came to realise…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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