Equality chief says goal of UK transphobic rhetoric is to 'quash women's rights'

""We know there's an outrageous, horrific rise in violence against women, sexual crimes and rape," she said. "Now there's the rise of incel culture and the likes of Andrew Tate pushing ideas of men's power and what they're entitled to. It's really sad that those pushing the anti-trans narrative don't realise that's exactly what they're playing into.""

""The ultimate objective is quashing women's rights," Kennedy, who has been the charity's chief executive since last year, told The Herald. "Once we allow trans women to be scapegoated, it's a slippery slope.""

""If you take the definition of a woman as being per her genitalia, then we're going back 50 years to how a woman should be defined by her reproductive ability," she said. "It's a slippery slope from"

Transphobia in the UK could enable anti-abortion policies by empowering trans-exclusionary men who claim feminist credentials. Scapegoating trans women reinforces patriarchal norms and allows dangerous male behaviour to be ignored. There is an observed rise in violence against women, sexual crimes, and incel culture that promotes male entitlement. Gender-critical activists often lobby to exclude transgender people and advocate defining womanhood by biology or genitalia. Defining women by reproductive capacity risks reversing decades of progress and would narrow women's rights, including access to abortion.

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