Stella O’Malley is a founder of Genspect, an organization that works with families caught in the gender crisis. Sarah Phillimore is a barrister associated with Fair Cop, an organization which fights the rainbow capture of British police departments and their policies that oppress gender critical voices. I am an historian of social, revolutionary, military, and political movements.
None of us was ever appointed to be the clothes police.
“It’s difficult to understand how we police men in dresses without knowing their thoughts,” Sarah tells me. “That isn’t possible so we police observable behaviour. If a man is just wearing a dress and nothing more, we cannot police that. And do not wish to.” We are not pre-crime. We are not the clothes police.
Recently, however, all three of us were still subject to Twitter/X cancellation for refusing to police the clothing of Phil, an autogynephile. (Phil did NOT like my review of his book.) So we talked about how none of us is the clothes police, and w…
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