But they’re not
Oh shut up.
Lisa Nandy recites the “trans people are THE most persecuted blah blah blah” creed so we can roll our eyes for the fifty billionth time.
The Times story is such a mess I can’t quote from most of it, because it keeps relying on pronouns (female ones, ironically) where it needs to use names, so the reader can’t tell who said what. The gist is that JKR said women can’t trust Labour because it’s in the tank for trans bullshit.
Asked at an event with members of Westminster’s press gallery whether women could trust Labour, the MP [Nandy] said: “Yeah, look, they can. It breaks my heart actually, we’re re-reading Harry Potter at the moment in my house with an eight-year-old who is absolutely Harry Potter obsessed,” she said.
“And I don’t think we should end up in an oppositional relationship where we’re talking about some of the most marginalised, discriminated against women and girls on the planet and we can’t have that debate, because there’s a genuine conversation to be had about the rights of transgender people and the protection of safe spaces and hard-fought rights for women.”
They’re not. They’re not some of the most marge disc and all the rest of it. They’re not. The planet is a planet where girls have their genitalia razored off and sewn shut, where girls and women are banished to outdoor sheds when they menstruate, where girls are married to men 40 years older than they are, men who already have three wives, men who are cruel and violent, men who hate all female people. Where girls are kept out of school, where women are raped, assaulted, beaten, tortured. Where rape is rarely reported, when reported rarely prosecuted, when prosecuted rarely convicted. Where men get rich by being conspicuously grotesquely passionately enraged at women in videos and podcasts.
And then there are poor people, non-white people, immigrants, people with disabilities. Many people are all those things, and women besides. Trans people, in comparison, are some of the most pampered people on the planet, with legislators like Nandy drooling over them on all occasions.
Updating to add because Robbie says it better and more swiftly:
We can’t have that debate because one of the catchphrases of trans activism has been “NO DEBATE!” They want to shut debate down. Any discussion of so-called trans “rights” is deemed to be “denying their existence.” Trans activists go out of their way to crash, prevent, or break up meetings that are meant to discuss “the protection of safe spaces and hard-fought rights for women.” They bully, threaten, and assault women who dare say “No,” who know that men aren’t women. Nothing says powerlessness and marginalization like a mob of men screaming at women and pounding on windows, or breaking down barricades to beat up women, or hurling smoke bombs while calling for the firing of a lesbian professor because she makes them feel “unsafe.” Forget whining about JKR rightly telling women that your party can’t be trusted. That’s not on her; that’s on you. Maybe instead you could try telling your eight-year-old why you hate women. Until then, take your broken heart and fuck off.
They get so close but the penny never quite drops, does it.
“ we can’t have that debate, because there’s a genuine conversation to be had about the rights of transgender people and the protection of safe spaces and hard-fought rights for women”
Yeah. We could have that debate, if trans organisations would ever allow it (and to date they won’t, escalating to barricading, deplatforming, threatening and actual violence when it’s been tried).
But they won’t. And they won’t because once it’s suggested by them that the right of a woman to get changed without seeing a stranger’s dick ought to be *balanced* with the “right” of an adult to show his dick to an unwilling woman and children, most people wonder what the hell you’re smoking and want nothing to do with you.
The “rights” they want are fundamentally unpopular when explained in plain, ordinary language: such as falsified documents, to cheat at sports, to steal jobs, awards and places for other vulnerable groups, take their penises where no one wants them, and to lie about all of it with such obfuscating language that it’s quite impenetrable to the ordinary citizen. As well as to harass, charge, fine, arrest, fire etc anyone who complains that such a situation is untenable and unacceptable.
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