Because other people have rights
What’s this what’s this?
EHRC commissioner calls for ‘period of correction’ on trans rights after legal ruling
Transgender people must acknowledge a “period of correction” of rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said.
Speaking at a debate about the repercussions of April’s ruling that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, Akua Reindorf said trans people had been misled about their rights and there “has to be a period of correction, because other people have rights”.
Sums it up, doesn’t it. All these magical “rights” to be endorsed and validated and embraced as the sex you are not – they turn out to be 100% bullshit.
We did warn them.
Reindorf, a barrister who is one of eight commissioners at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), who was speaking in a personal capacity, said she believes the fault lay with trans lobbyists.
However, the human rights campaign groups Liberty and Amnesty called on the EHRC to make sure the rights of trans people were properly considered when it draws up guidance for public bodies on how to implement the changed legal landscape.
Back to square one. What rights? Trans people have the human rights all humans have; they don’t have new special magical rights that cancel the rights of, for instance, women.
A director of the trans campaign group TransActual said Reindorf’s remarks were profoundly unhelpful.
No you are.
Asked by an audience member about worries the ruling could reduce the rights of trans people, another panellist, the barrister Naomi Cunningham, said trans people “will have to give way”, adding: “It can’t be helped, I’m afraid.”
Reindorf, speaking next, agreed: “Unfortunately, young people and trans people have been lied to over many years about what their rights are. It’s like Naomi said – I just can’t say it in a more diplomatic way than that. They have been lied to, and there has to be a period of correction, because other people have rights.”
Real rights, as opposed to the pretend kind.
Chiara Capraro, head of gender justice at Amnesty International UK, said: “The EHRC has the duty to uphold the rights of everyone, including all with protected characteristics. We are concerned that it is failing to do so and is unhelpfully pitting the rights of women and trans people against each other.”
Oh shut up. You’re the ones who are doing that. You’re the ones who insist that men are women if they say they are, and are thus free to grab everything that belongs to women.
Rights aren’t the only thing they’ve been lied to about.
False premises and false promises. That’s all they’ve ever had.
Maybe I’m being uncharitably bloody-minded, but “trans people have been lied to over many years about what their rights are” plays into the “helpless, marginalized community” trope just a little too much for my liking. Sure, they were lied to. They were lied for. But they also lied. Not all trans identified people were simple, passive, unquestioning recipients of misinformation, mindlessly regurgitating what they’d been fed. This comes too close to absolving them of the responsibility they should be owning. Some of them were active participants in this campaign against women, which often veered dangerously close to terrorism. It wasn’t all just cis “allies” telling all the lies, making all the demands, and doing all the damage. Did Jonathan Willoughby ever find his cervix? Did “Sophie Molly” ever take back his threats? Have all those men who suddenly “discovered” they were actually women in order to be housed in women’s prisons admitted to the dishonesty of their ways, and/or volunteered to go back to the men’s estate where they belonged? There’s delusion, and then there’s cynical opportunism. The former might get you off the hook as far as criminal or moral culpability goes, the latter does not. I refuse to believe that all of the toxic trans-identified, trans “rights” campaigners were pious frauds who simply soaked up what they were told by wicked friends and “allies.” Once you start telling and selling lies, they become yours. If you haven’t done your due diligence to know that the position you’re holding (and angrily, violently promoting and defending) is in fact accurate and true, then its untruth is your responsibility. You can’t plead ignorance or innocence. Particularly if you bully and intimidate others who try to investigate or question the truth of your claims for themselves, which is what you did to women for years. When what you’re claiming is impossible, all you have to defend it is enforced silence and lies.
And those who lied for trans ideology, who decided to run with Stonewall Law instead of the actual law should be held accountable. The police, the courts, the prison system somehow all decided that the impossible was possible, that men could become women, and did so without batting an eyelash. Those decisionmakers who signed off on this dangerous lunacy should face consequences, or at least be named, if for no other reason than to deter the like from ever happening again. There must be minutes of meetings, signatures on memos, e-mails to subordinates outlining the New Reality of Gender Identity and its implications for their departments’ operations.
not Bruce, it’s sort of like “Trump voters have been misled”. No, not really. They chose to be misled. Meanwhile, trans identified chose to be lied to and misled. It’s easier to change clothes and hair style than to deal with the actual issues you’re feeling insecure and anxious about. It’s the old magic-bullet. Not penicillin, but head tilts.