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Define ‘Woman’

15 February, 202423 February, 2024Catrìona Faolain

Last week, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak caused a stir in Parliament by accusing Opposition Leader Keir Starmer of U-turning on “defining a woman, although, in fairness, that was only 99 per cent of a U-turn.” This was a reference to Starmer’s remark that “99 percent of women don’t have a penis”. This was widely regarded […]

Cis isn’t a Slur

28 June, 202328 June, 2023Catrìona Faolain

Content warning: Since we’re talking about slurs, we are inevitably going to be mentioning some slurs. I’ll try not to mention them myself, but I won’t edit them out of any quotes I use. Elon Musk, who is officially History’s Biggest Loser, declared last Wednesday that the terms ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ would be considered slurs […]

Overtaken by Events

24 May, 202224 May, 2022Catrìona Faolain

Sam Leith has written in the Spectator, asking “Should a trans woman inherit a peerage over their [sic] older sister?” This question is raised by trans woman Matilda Simon inheriting a title and contesting a seat in the House of Lords. It’s a confused mess of an article — claiming that hereditary peerage is an […]

Coercion and Consent

31 October, 202126 February, 2024Catrìona Faolain

Fighting back against transphobic myths about coercion.

Gender-Neutral Language is Feminist

22 October, 20217 February, 2022Catrìona Faolain

It’s only two weeks since my piece on the language of cervixes and already we have another anti-trans article complaining about “the word ‘woman’ being banned” (it isn’t), this time by Rosie DiManno in The Toronto Star and, inexplicably, despite it being obvious nonsense, being shared on Twitter by Margaret Atwood. Something I didn’t mention […]