No conflict here, move on
That’s just a pointless headline and a pointless lede.
Women’s and trans rights are not in conflict, says Angela Rayner
That depends on what rights you’re talking about. It’s meaningless to say that without defining anything.
“Women’s rights are not in conflict with trans rights,” Labour’s deputy leader has told a fringe event at the party’s conference.
Depends. Which rights? The right to get on with your life and not face abuse? Sure. The right to compete against women in sport, to take jobs and awards meant for women, to run rape crisis centers? Those are definitely in conflict with women’s rights.
Ms Rayner said it was wrong to suggest there was choice to be made between women’s and trans rights.
No it isn’t. Some men who identify as women are determined to take everything that belongs to women, and delighted to be able to bully and abuse women with the approval of supposedly progressive people.
Of note
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/sep/29/new-guidelines-for-transgender-participation-unveiled-by-uk-sports-councils
Importantly, the sports councils are saying that inclusion of transgender athletes comes at a real price to women’s sports, and that can no longer simply be ignored.
Ah, but we are assured by the prophets and prelates of the “Woke and Therapy Religion” that this is NOT TRUE. (See Friendly Atheist and Mano Singham’s commentariate) We will simply plug our fingers in our ears and shout lalalalllaalla until our faith is mandated by law.
But of course, in a State plagued by a heritage (heh heh) of violence and racism and poverty (and hurricane after hurricane as well as an increase in wet bulb temps that will make the state unlivable for half the year), the IMPORTANT issue in Mississippi is the treatment of “non binary children”.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/
@Brian M (#3)
I used to be closer to Neil Carter, but now I realize that I haven’t read Godless in Dixie for sometime. Anyway, I don’t think he understands the issue of non-binary and transgender belief. That’s apparent when he writes that the Church relies on gender to divide roles, so when people make gender fuzzy they don’t know who to suppress.