The Long Overdue Question Of What A Trans Woman Is

On January 11th, 1923, following a series of refusals and rejections, an Indian man named Bhagat Singh Thind finally got his application for naturalised U.S. citizenship before the Supreme Court.

There was only one problem; according to the Naturalisation Act of 1906, only “free white persons” and “persons of African nativity or […] descent,” were eligible to receive citizenship.

So Thind did what any brown-skinned, Punjabi-born man would do, he argued that he was a white person, pointing out that Indians and Europeans share common Proto-Indo-European ancestry.

To strengthen his case (and I swear, I’m not making this up), he even assured the court that as a high-born member of India’s caste system, he shared the disdain for the “lower races” and hatred of “race-mixing” that many white Americans in the 1920s felt:

The high-caste Hindu regards the aboriginal Indian Mongoloid in the same manner as the American regards the Negro, speaking from a matrimonial standpoint.

But sadly, it wasn’t enough.

Associate Justice George Sutherland delivered the court’s unanimous opinion that even if Thind was technically Caucasian, he wasn’t Caucasian in the “common understanding” of the word. Thind lost the case, his citizenship was revoked, and at least sixty-five Indian Americans who had previously been granted citizenship lost their status too.

There were so many solid arguments Thind could have made.

He could have challenged the constitutionality of the Naturalisation Act, he could have drawn attention to his exemplary service in the United States Army or the life he’d built after ten years in America, he could have asserted his right to the same opportunities as the white people he lived alongside.

But instead, he wasted his opportunity claiming to be something that he obviously wasn’t.

On April 16th, 2025, after over a decade of gaslighting, pseudoscience, and abuse, the U.K. Supreme Court finally confirmed what 100% of people already knew (even those who pretend they don’t); that the common and legal understanding of the words “man” and “woman” refer to biological sex.

If this sudden outbreak of sanity proves contagious, we can expect more and more countries to prevent male boxers from punching women in the face, women’s prisons will be increasingly free of male rapists, and women might even be able to object to perverts in their changing rooms and restrooms without being punished or ignored.

And despite the inevitable outpouring of outrage and horror that women’s safety causes among trans activists, I think this is fantastic news for the trans community.

Because now that we’ve agreed on what a woman is, we can finally focus our attention where it should have been all along; on figuring out what a trans woman is. And if there any men who are so vile or dangerous or obviously insincere that even the activists will call for a little nuance?

For example, is Eddie Izzard a trans woman? Well, he’s spent most of his career acknowledging that he’s a transvestite (a man who is sexually aroused by wearing women’s clothing).

But in 2016 he started describing himself as “a transgender guy,” in 2023 (at sixty-one-years old), he announced he was switching between “boy mode” and “girl mode,” and later the same year, he was spotted courageously using women’s bathrooms despite making no physical or legal changes whatsoever.

Is Dylan Mulvaney a trans woman? Well, he also uses women’s bathrooms. And despite being a twenty-eight year-old man, he also enjoys referring to himself as a “girl.” But the only evidence of Dylan’s girlhood is things like eating girl-scout cookies on a pink bed, prancing through the forest in high heels and…well, I’ll let him put it in his own words:

Day one of being a girl, and I have already cried three times, I wrote a scathing email that I did not send, I ordered dresses online that I couldn’t afford. And then when someone asked me how I was, I said, “I’m fine,” when I wasn’t fine. So, how’d I do ladies?

And, of course, who could forget “Isla Bryson”? Is “she” a trans woman? Well, Isla claimed to be one (which is all the evidence the “be kind” people need), but a few hateful bigots think it’s significant that Isla (formerly Adam Graham) discovered his newfound womanhood during his trial for raping two women.

Luckily, then-Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, was still happy to tie herself in humiliating linguistic knots to justify the decision to place him in a women’s prison.

These are the kinds of questions that trans activists have spent years avoiding in favour of lying, obfuscating, and hurling abuse and death threats at anybody who asked them. But these are also the kinds of questions that have to be addressed before anyone can address the issue of trans-inclusion.

Because one of the most telling aspects of this debate is that trans activists have never shown any interest in placing any boundaries on the men who opt into the trans identity. They shared none of the concerns that sane men and women felt about rapists and perverts in women’s spaces.

But if trans women really are distinct from men, if there’s some clear, verifiable difference that us bigots can’t see, shouldn’t trans women be most invested in explaining what it is?

If they’re so petrified of the dangers posed by men that they need to use women’s spaces, shouldn’t they be at least as invested in making sure rapists and perverts can’t get in there with them?

These questions are not and never were women’s to answer. These problems are not women’s to solve. And now, finally, the question of whether to claim or reject these men rests with the trans activists.

I can’t wait to see what they come up with.

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Imagine if Martin Luther King had hinged the civil rights movement on the claim that black people weren’t just equal to white people, but that they were white people, and that it was hateful, even borderline genocidal, to admit you could very easily see the difference.

Imagine if he’d argued that there was no need for the Civil Rights Act or the Fair Housing Act or any legislation that addressed the issues black people faced, we’d just piggyback on existing legislation and invoke our newfound whiteness whenever a problem arose.

Now imagine how ineffective that would have been. And how much energy and public goodwill it would have cost him.

This is the predicament the trans activist movement finds itself in. And the tragedy is that it was extremely predictable and entirely self-inflicted.

Because it is not, and never was, a civil rights issue that the legal system didn’t play along with lies and delusions and incoherent nonsense.

It is not activism to erase 51% of the population, both in language and law, so you can hijack the legal protections they’ve spent decades fighting for.

It is not “elimination” when the world sees you for what you are and what you are not.

Trans women are not women. It’s official.

If only they hadn’t wasted so much time claiming to be something that they obviously weren’t.

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