The applicability to gender-identity ideology is obvious. Proclaiming that transwomen are women is a way of showing that you are a member of an elite intellectual tribe – university-educated, left-leaning and too sophisticated to categorise people by their physiology. Adherence is signalled with pronouns in email signatures and social-media bios. The frequent use of the word ‘dangerous’ for Rowling’s blogpost was revealing, since it contained neither insults nor threats. If critics felt capable of rebutting it point by point, they would not have felt endangered by it. The true danger was that
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