Re: The Gender Identity Issue.
Posted: Wed May 15, 2024 4:34 pm
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 4:17 pm No need to meet with them and give them credibility though.Yes there is, as noted above.
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 4:17 pm No need to meet with them and give them credibility though.Yes there is, as noted above.
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 4:50 pm Rachel Reeves shouldn't meet the TPA though, should she?Personally? Absolutely not. I’d rather no one in a prospective left of centre government met with any of the insane ghouls from Tufton St.
Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 1:55 pm I'd have hoped that she, or one of her advisers, would spot the Tufton Street connection, and tell her to give them a swerve. Then again those organisations are very good at playing the media, and I imagine there would be no shortage of outlets happy to report that so-called inclusive Labour chair Dodds refused to meet with leading gay rights advocacy group…Sections of the media had a go at presenting them as a rival organisation to Stonewall - as indeed they are, in the same way that I am a rival to Oleksandr Usyk in his quest to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world - when they first got going, but it didn’t really take. Trouble is, it doesn’t need to. If you can gain influence with the right people then the fact that no fucker has ever heard of you doesn’t really matter.
Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 5:28 pm Gender Identity is a small boy with a catapult eyeing up a Ming vase...Precisely, many (most?) of the people calling Starmer a Terf and a bigot care no more about Trans Rights than those saying "Starmer can't say what a woman is".
Philip Marlow wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 1:06 pmI don't know if they've been that important in the retreat on trans issues though, and that's one reason I wouldn't have met them. JK Rowling has been much more important than they have been. The same money the LGB Alliance get also fights abortion, contraception etc, but has made no progress in the UK. They've got some roll back on sex education, but I wonder whether that'll last because it's so obviously based on lies.
Sections of the media had a go at presenting them as a rival organisation to Stonewall - as indeed they are, in the same way that I am a rival to Oleksandr Usyk in his quest to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world - when they first got going, but it didn’t really take. Trouble is, it doesn’t need to. If you can gain influence with the right people then the fact that no fucker has ever heard of you doesn’t really matter.
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 4:40 pm The same money the LGB Alliance get also fights abortion, contraception etc, but has made no progress in the UK.Worth a read:
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 4:40 pmIt's a very good example of overreach. Of course it's much easy to blame American evangelicals for this rather than acknowledge that there has been a schism amongst progressives over this issue.Philip Marlow wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2024 1:06 pmI don't know if they've been that important in the retreat on trans issues though, and that's one reason I wouldn't have met them. JK Rowling has been much more important than they have been. The same money the LGB Alliance get also fights abortion, contraception etc, but has made no progress in the UK. They've got some roll back on sex education, but I wonder whether that'll last because it's so obviously based on lies.
Sections of the media had a go at presenting them as a rival organisation to Stonewall - as indeed they are, in the same way that I am a rival to Oleksandr Usyk in his quest to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world - when they first got going, but it didn’t really take. Trouble is, it doesn’t need to. If you can gain influence with the right people then the fact that no fucker has ever heard of you doesn’t really matter.
The reason trans rights have been forced into retreat is that they weren't as solidly based as those other things. Cass has demolished puberty blockers, backed by most of the medical establishment. Self-id was unpopular in Scotland as soon as it was passed, and has obvious problems. And the more controversial stuff on ending single sex spaces could probably have been challenged all along under the Equality Act.
A rape crisis worker was unfairly dismissed from her role at a support centre for survivors of abuse after she expressed gender critical views, a tribunal has ruled.
Roz Adams was subjected to a “Kafkaesque” internal disciplinary process by managers at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) after she questioned rules about trans female counsellors working with female survivors.
The tribunal said there was “ample evidence” Adams had been unfairly treated by her employers because they believed she was a transphobe.
The investigations into Adams amounted to a “heresy hunt” because “she did not fully subscribe to the gender ideology which they did and which they wished to promote in the organisation. This was an act of harassment on the basis of her belief.”
Adams, who describes herself as a “sex realist”, had questioned whether it was fair and appropriate for the centre to insist that its clients could not specify that they only wanted support from biological women.
In its ruling, the tribunal said the centre’s chief executive, Mridul Wadhwa, a trans woman, had “formed the view that the claimant was transphobic. This led to a completely spurious and mishandled disciplinary process. The investigation was deeply flawed.