The ship turns very slowly
What a huge amount of time, money and, for Maya Forstater, unimaginable anxiety it has taken to establish that she should not be sacked for believing simply that biology is real.
For knowing what we all knew until 5 minutes ago, when we received strict orders to stop believing it.
At a time when the scales are falling from people’s eyes about just how campaigners such as Stonewall operate, Fortstater’s win is cheering for all of us. I was never sacked for my gender critical beliefs but I was certainly made to feel that my workplace had become a hostile environment. How many people are labouring under the same pressure?
Approximately way too many.
For it is mostly women who are losing jobs and being abused if they do not accept extreme trans ideology. This week, after a two month “probe” by Abertay University, a Scottish law student called Lisa Keogh was finally cleared of “wrongdoing“ after saying that “women have vaginas”. Her classmates reported this as an offensive comment. Marion Millar, another gender-critical feminist, was recently arrested and charged by police in Scotland for her tweets.
And a judge forced Maria MacLachlan to call the man who punched her at Speakers’ Corner “she.”
The road back is long and twisty.
There have been some encouraging developments lately, but somehow it still feels like we are in the Poseidon Adventure and some SCUBA divers have managed to nudge the ship towards being upright by one or two degrees.
I liked this comment about the Telegraph article, in reference to the “cis” prefix:
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melissa martin 11 Jun 2021 8:30AM
@Anita Saye Any GP tries that gibberish on you, inform them that’s fine as long as they recognise that by the same logic they are a Cis Doctor and you are a Trans Doctor.
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Not to mention women who are being required to call their rapists “she”. Meanwhile, trans advocates complain that they have no voice. Yeah, like Trump voters have no voice…while holding the only bullhorn.
Does this make Maya Forstater the tugboat that turned the ship blocking the Suez Canal?
Heh. I hadn’t thought of that. Just yesterday I watched a couple of tugs push some large unidentifiable object – like a barge but with some kind of vertical structure on it – around in a half circle and then away toward the harbor. I probably think in tugboat because of living here.