‘For the record, I knocked two out. One woman’s skull was fractured, the other not. And just so you know, I enjoyed it. See, I love smacking up Terfs in the cage.’
Can someone who says such things be considered a respectable commentator on women’s rights and interests? I suspect that most people who glory in battering women would struggle to get a hearing in national conversation on such topics, much less a slot on Radio Four. Yet this week the author of that quote, Fallon Fox, was invited on to the Today programme to talk about women’s sport and trans women’s right to participate in it.
Fox is a trans woman who served in the US Navy before becoming a mixed-martial arts fighter competing in women’s events, leading to the violence she described. Giving Fox airtime on the BBC’s most important radio outlet didn’t go down well with many people.
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