"We" refers to society at large. As I mention, one only has to look around to see how attitudes to gender roles are changing. I think that's a good thing. Men can wear pink and women can change tyres and nobody is going to die as a result.

I'm not sure who the "they" you're referring to is. There wasn't a "they" in the quote you highlighted. I guess you mean who is it that didn't accept these changes? In which case, I'm referring to society historically.

But I have to disagree with a lot of the rest of this. Breaking down society is not what "the left" is about. It's what a fringe of postmodernitst fruit-loops are about, and they're dragging a bunch of other people with them by persuading them that dismantling basic biological and scientific concepts is kindness.

I'm also a little saddened to see that my article failed to make its point (it's not just you, a few other people who responded did the same thing). I'm not remotely suggesting that male and female are the same (I actually spend a fair amount of time pointing out how they're different), I'm saying that sex and gender are different things.

There is no such thing as "biological gender". Gender is, as the kids ike to say, a social construct. It's primarily a set of arbitrary expectations about who you should be and what you should do based on your biological sex.

Sex (male/female), is not a construct, it's a solid biological fact. But the fact that so many of us confuse or conflate these two leads to a lot of misunderstandings.

So again, bathrooms seem in many of our minds to be segregated by sex, but they're not. They're segregated by gender. If you see somebody who looks masculine in the men's bathroom, you don't question it. You don't ask to see their genitals at the door. But if you saw somebody who looked feminine, you'd at the very least be surprised.

Take a look at this person:

https://twitter.com/jayshef/status/712845760287494144?s=21

This is a biological female. Do you think they should use the women's bathrooms or the men's? If you met them on the street, would you call them "he" or "she", sir or madam?As medical technology improves, the answer to these questions will only become more obvious.

The trajectory we're heading in is one that challenges some of the assumptions it's been safe to make until now. People felt the same way when women got the right to vote and when segregation was abolished and, yes, when gay marriage was legalised (I’d love to know why you think gay marriage harmed anything in any way). It might feel dangerous to you, but that’s the way change always is. Stand against it all you want, but you can’t stop it.

What you *can* do, is make sure that the solutions we build to address the needs of all involved are sensible and fair. But to do that we need to be clear about how talk about these things.