UK supreme court rules that legal protections for women don't apply to trans women even if they hold gender recognition certificates.
Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules
TERF island making it official, JK Rowling already celebrating.
Why is UK so TERF-y?
JK Rowling the cause or a symptom?
The best theory I've heard so far is that the UK never had a revolution or something similar, it's always just concessions to the working class just before they just guillotine everyone - historically. As such, feminism in the UK sprouted largely not from some sort of class based consciousness but from like proto-girlboss bullshit of aristocratic women, as such, the underlying theme isn't liberation, it's keeping your place in the hierarchy.
YUP This is the correct answer!
A symptom for sure. She's just a kids writer, nobody would pay her any attention if she was a communist. She's being boosted exactly because she's a TERF.
My partner read a collection of essays (quite good, but dogshit editor) I think called The Right to Sex. That was their argument as I recall it
If I had to guess the instance this TERF culture began, I'd say 2016 as most irritating right-wing trends did. Lots of other responses you got are great. But the more interesting thing IMO is thinking about why the UK is so militant in its hate. I'll try keep it short because truthfully I could go into more detail for a whole lot longer but I already know the answer and spending time thinking about it will only make me more sad :(
The majority of residents in the 29th layer of hell (formerly known as the United Kingdom) lives for kicking down. It is a nation of post-hope, where numbing oneself or believing one must out hustle and "get theirs" is necessary to simply survive or (god forbid!) thrive. This land has very effectively (nearly totally) naturalised hierarchy into the national social fabric. The UK adores individualism, it is a pastime, to complain about everything and anything without ever entertaining the idea of uniting a group of people to fight for something right, the UK is a nation of cowards. Kicking down at our weakest members of society is the only way to sustain this culture, it is the predicate needed for the owning class to let the greater society laugh, and those who harbour power know erasing this cowardice would lead to the alternative situation, one which may result in the greater population to begin looking in the mirror and potentially finding out that real hope can exist, one in which we incorporate a planned economy with state owned enterprises, and totally eradicate of the minority who own the majority.
To live in the UK is to submit oneself to masturbatory torture. The fact that such a state exists will forever be the reason I believe god does not care for its creation, we as a species are so self-aggrandising to believe we are anything but one of gods funny little missteps.
Yours sincerely, a British citizen.
PS:
Remember how they treated Turing, this is a nation of barbarism with a frown and a cake of makeup on to hide its ugly pores :/