I agree that TERFs have to accept some responsibility, and I say that anybody who is prepared to develop some understanding of the process of medical transitioning should be able to dismiss their arguments. After a short time on a testosterone blocker, a transwoman is incapable of obtaining a spontaneous erection. And if they obtain an erection, it doesn't last long.

TERFs arguments about transwomen in sport are also of limited validity.

Transphobic politicians, and that includes those on both sides of the Atlantic, have a great deal to answer for, as does a failed political candidate in Australia, by the name of Katherine Deves, who made the preposterous statement that most trans kids are simply autistic. There is an overlap between neurodiversity and gender dysphoria, but they are not two halves of the same walnut. An autistic child can be cisgender and a trans child can be neurotypical.

How do I know about erections. I am a transwoman who is taking a testosterone blocker, and I can't manage a spontaneous or morning erection, and I don't want to, either. It has taken me long enough to reach the point where I had the courage to actually transition.

In Australia, there is an equally stupid politician by the name of Pauline Hanson, who tried to pass a motion (the only place it should have passed is on the toilet) to have parents who allow their kids to transition to lose custody of their kids, on the basis that the parents are making them trans, which is crap. Loving parents allow their kids to transition, cruel parents try o force their kids into conversion therapy. But on the flip side, full marks to South Australian Premier, Peter Malinauskas, who, when faced with a private member's bill from Independent MP, Frank Pangallo, into trans kids, refused to allow it and would not allow his Labor Government Members a conscience vote on this issue. I have had to put someone on my friends' list onto a restricted list, as they are a TERF.