Does the UN Care About Women?

The BBC is not far behind in its recourse to the irrelevant and the trivial: one of its special contributions to this year’s festivities is a celebration of “the women defying skateboarding stereotypes”. Spotlighting a group of mothers who gather outdoors to skate, the article ends: “Looking ahead, they hope to expand, with the ultimate goal of securing their own indoor space”. Perhaps the BBC should check themselves: they sound suspiciously trans-exclusionary here, seemingly endorsing a single-sex community with its own space. They even neglected to use a gender-inclusive term for “mother”, like “birthing parent”.