One of the U.K.'s most prestigious awards for women's literature could go to a biological male this year, because of course.

Among the 16 finalists for the Women's Prize for Fiction is Torrey Peters, a male who identifies as a woman. Peters was nominated for the erotic novel Detransition, Baby, which follows a man who identifies as a woman who longs to be pregnant. When the character's male partner impregnates a woman, they team up to convince the woman to give them her child.

Wholesome stuff, indeed.

The novel is filled with violent sexual fantasies and glorifies the degradation of women as "empowerment" because of course it is.

Here's what feminist writer Genevieve Gluck had to say [language warning at the link]:

"The common overarching message of Peters' stories... appears to be that men who fetishize women should be allowed to have whatever they like, to define women however they see fit, and that they are entitled to prioritize their feelings, sexual or otherwise, over women's reality."

Not only this, but I should add that Peters is an American, meaning a biological male from the States could ultimately win a British award for women.

As a father of three daughters, I wonder what categories of achievement will be left to them, if the category of "woman" hasn't been erased completely by then.

"I would like to again request a public statement from the board regarding their nomination of Torrey Peters for a prize reserved for women, the class of people who have been excluded from society for centuries on the basis of sex, who reduces us all to even less than a sex object - to acts of sex, to a ‘fantasy of sexual powerlessness,' said Gluck. I would like a reply from the Chair of the Women's Prize, Bernadine Evaristo, informing the public of whose decision this was and what motivated their thinking."

Women, what do you think? Here's a poll exclusively for those with XX chromosomes: