So crazed by this ideology
Joan Smith on the disaster in Scotland yesterday:
So crazed are MSPs by this ideology that on Tuesday evening they voted down an amendment that would have placed barriers in the way of convicted sex offenders who seek to apply for a GRC, complete with a new female name. They even rejected an amendment — proposed by Michelle Thomson, an SNP MSP who has waived anonymity to reveal her own experience of being raped when she was fourteen years old — that would have paused the process of acquiring a certificate for men charged with sexual offences.
This is an extremely troubling development. Let’s not forget that the SNP-Green government has pressed ahead with the legislation even after Lady Haldane’s judgment established last week that a GRC changes someone’s legal sex for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act. Scottish women are now expected to accept that any man standing in front of them, waving a piece of paper, is a woman — even if they’re in court and the man is accused of raping them.
And they’re expected to live in a country where the law doesn’t acknowledge the most basic physical realities of who is a woman and who is a man.
Given the sweeping nature of the claim (we are ALL born with an immutable GI) and the epistemic suicide (there’s no way to tell whether someone is a man or women except by asking & trusting) it’s inevitable that any and all forms of reasonable exceptions or modifications will be ruled “unfair.’ All the energy TRAs waste insisting that TW aren’t dangerous in single sex spaces means nothing: if assaults & raped go up 90% it’s woman-on-woman crime. If all hormone level testing is abandoned and TW take all the prizes they’re women winning women’s prizes. If 75% of all TW decide they don’t even need lipstick and a necklace to live their authentic lives as butch lesbians, that’s a woman’s choice.
All or nothing.