This is a Woman Podcast

I now stand accused of the crime of “deliberate misgendering” for using male pronouns to refer to WPATH’s president, Marci Bowers, in this clip. As if I’m somehow setting out to cause offence. But I’m not deliberately trying to offend anyone. I’m not being disrespectful. I am just not a believer. I do not believe there’s such a thing as a male woman, and no amount of hormones or surgeries can turn a man into a woman. I won’t pretend to believe in something that I know is not true. The language I use reflects those beliefs. I use accurate sex-based pronouns at all times because I believe the truth matters. I believe there are consequences when a society becomes untethered from reality. One such consequence, the one I care about the most, is that when we all started to pretend that some men could be women and some women could be men, untold numbers of young people were destabilised during a crucial stage of their identity development and came to the devastatingly harmful conclusion that they too could be members of the opposite sex. Many fixated on hormones and surgeries as their only road to happiness. Society, in its madness, aided and abetted this dangerous delusion, and the worst crime the medical world has ever committed is the result. Using sex-based pronouns doesn’t equate to hating transgender people. It’s not an attempt to dehumanise. For me, it’s the refusal to pay lip service to an ideological belief system that I believe is doing immeasurable harm to a generation of vulnerable young people.