What is really happening
The judgment, and the Ministry of Justice policy, use phrases like “transgender women” and “non-transgender women”; the “gender with which they identify”; and the “biological sex assigned to them at birth”.
This language obscures what is really happening. Male prisoners, including rapists, are being housed in women’s prisons, and female prisoners and prison officers are forced to pretend that these male people are women.
The language always obscures what is really happening. That’s what it’s for.
When the judges talk about “transgender women”, these are some of the people they are talking about:
https://transcrimeuk.com (from 2021/2020 convictions)
That’s one of the three rows. Look at them all.
Currently, under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, being a convicted sex offender with a penis and testicles – and no intention of ever having them removed – is no impediment to a man qualifying for a certificate declaring him to be a woman. And the prison service’s policy is that, with or without a gender recognition certificate, a male prisoner can be housed in a women’s prison, subject to risk assessment.
It’s utterly disgusting.
Second that.
In case you missed it, this is also happening in New Jersey:
I take this to mean that NJ has non-binary prisons.
It was an article about rape victims in a shelter feeling uncomfortable about an intact, masculinely looking transwoman, that made me stop and think that there could be honest disagreement about these issues, with neither side being branded as bigots or bullies.
It used to be, years ago, you saw what looked like an obvious guy in a dress, trying to exist in a hostile world and your heart went out to them. I thought: “I don’t get it, but if it’s that important to you, there must be SOMETHING to it.” And if such a person was a victim of male (“cis-male”) violence, and needed a place to recover, well …
Then I saw what happened when that rape crisis shelter in Vancouver tried to advocate for females. And I saw Meaghan getting shouted down on discussion boards and permanently banned from twitter.
Apparently a TIM is allowed to feel uncomfortable at the masculine aspects they see looking back at them from the mirror. (They refer to that person as “Him.” And they hate “Him.”) But a woman who has been the victim of male violence is supposed to just suck it up when there’s a 6-foot tall, broad shouldered person with a deep voice, huge hands, but long hair and bad make-up sitting across from her at the breakfast table. And she’s a bigot for feeling the way she does.
And any woman who fears that “Self-ID” couldn’t be abused, or who can’t turn her brain off about the reality of male violence, or who feels frightened by having a serial rapist with a cock put into her cellblock, is a hate-filled dinosaur.
I brought this up to a good left-wing, feminist woman, and I could see her discomfort as she tried not to say something politically incorrect about rapists. About goddamned rapists.
When I try to tell people this, they think I’m getting into conspiracy theories. *sigh* But that’s always been the purpose of a lot of political and religious language.
TWAW! Oh wait, in what way are these individuals remotely womanly?
“The language always obscures what is really happening. That’s what it’s for.”
Yep. The entire thing is concerned with lying about what male and female are, to themselves and to all.
@WAM #2
Re “identify as transgender, intersex or nonbinary”
So people “identify as” intersex now, too? Nothing is real, everything is subjective identity?
Yes, it’s all getting very confused, to the point where those who are part of the cult are no longer sure what exactly they are supposed to be believing, but mouth stuff that sounds acceptable. Whether it’s correct or not is beside the point, as long as they can show that they behaving like good hostages.
I get my second COVID vaccination tomorrow. As part of the paperwork I’m supposed to bring to my appointment is a form from our local health unit, called the COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Demographic Form. One line offers these boxes to tick for Sex:
[ ] Female [ ] Male [ ] Non-Binary [ ] Prefer not to answer
A HEALTH UNIT thinking that “Non-Binary” is now a SEX?! I know there are more eggregious examples of capture posted every day, but this is just so stupid. What are they hoping to find, capture or record with this question? They haven’t really thought it through very well, have they? GC and oblivious, non-woke people are going to mark down their actual sex. Trans people, seeing the “Enbee” choice on the list, are going to mark down their “gender identity,” but will be “affirmed” and “validated” in their belief that it’s really their actual, honest-to-god sex. Enbees might not feel comfortable outing themselves as such, and there will be those who will feel uncomfortable even saying they’d prefer not to answer. I’m half wondering if the point is the offering of a hit of “affirmation” and “validation” that trans people might enjoy at being able to tick the box beside their appropriated sex?
Whatever “data” they hope to get out of this is going to be hopelessly corrupted.
The word “identify” is now a deepity. The simple, benign meaning of “identify as” is best understood by imagining yourself in a room filled with people and an authority asks “Would those of you who are X please identify yourself by raising your hand?” You do so, you’re identifying yourself as a woman, a wife, a teacher, someone who’s had both Covid shots — whatever. True, but trivial.
The other meaning, of course — the stupid, complicated, extraordinary but false meaning — is the same authority singling you out and asking “ignore reality and tell the group what you know you really, truly are on the inside.” Male, but a woman; unmarried, but a wife; uneducated, but a teacher; anti-vaxx, but totally non communicable.
Truth…with the addition that there’s a sort of in-between meaning, not as empty as the fantasy one but not as crisp as the “identify yourself” one: the one where you aren’t 100% the thing but a high enough percent that you identify as it. Kind of like being a dabbler or amateur as opposed to a professional or expert.
@Ophelia #10;
Ah, yes. Sometimes I identify as an artist, meaning that I tell people that’s what I am — and sometimes I don’t. I have sold many paintings and have them hung up all over the house. I’ve been in shows. I’ve taken classes and given a few lessons. But I’m under no illusion that I’m anything other than a hobby painter doing nice traditional landscapes. Among real artists, or when speaking of them, I do not identify myself as an “artist. I say “I paint.”
Perhaps I should always call myself an artist and demand inclusion in art museums. Exclusive places, denying my identity and gatekeeping art.
Heh.
Yes, in those contexts “identify as” is a sort of asterisk & footnote.
Funny that now it also means “and don’t you dare gainsay me.”
One thing I’ve learned is that a lot of people “identify as” writers, even without actually writing anything. They are always going to begin that book tomorrow, but have yet to put a single word down on paper. I “identify as” a writer because I write. It actually annoys me when people say they are a writer but they haven’t written anything. Until you have, you are not a writer.
Now I have to put up with male people who have never written anything identifying as a “woman writer”. Double annoyance.
And don’t get me started on how many people “identify as” OCD, without actually being OCD. They usually get quite outraged if those of us who are OCD point out to them that they are not, in fact, OCD, that having a series of habitual routines is not OCD, it’s just human.