Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:21 UTC
Two years ago, Titania McGrath, whose satirical Twitter account regularly skewers the ideological excesses of social-justice culture, suggested that we should remove biological sex from birth certificates altogether to prevent any more mistakes. The joke (obvious to those who follow the culture wars closely, but perhaps obscure to those who don t) was directed at gender activists who insist that male and female designations assigned at birth are misleading (and even dangerous), since they may misrepresent a person s true gender identity that internally felt soul-like quality that supposedly transcends such superficial physical indicia as gonads and genitalia. But the line between satire and sincerity has become blurry on this issue. Last Thursday, the