Delay stall dawdle
Leave no stone unturned in the quest to destroy women’s rights.
The equalities watchdog has withdrawn interim advice on how institutions should respond to the supreme court ruling on transgender rights, which some campaign groups said could effectively exclude trans people from many public spaces.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said the advice, published in April, shortly after that month’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only, had been taken down from its website.
In its place, the EHRC says organisations seeking to understand how to implement the ruling should “take specialist legal advice” ahead of the approval by parliament of the watchdog’s statutory guidance, submitted to ministers in early September.
Specialist. Because what? Nobody knows what a woman is any more?
Some Labour MPs joined transgender groups in expressing alarm at the EHRC’s interim advice, which said the supreme court ruling meant transgender people should not be allowed to use toilets meant for the gender they live as, and that in some cases they could not use toilets consistent with their birth sex.
There’s no such thing as “the gender they live as” – there’s only “their sex.” What people pretend is no one else’s concern or responsibility. Personal fantasies are personal. There’s fantasy and there’s reality, and it’s the reality of sex that determines who uses which set of toilets.
If people came up with a trend for pretending to be a giraffe, it would not be the state’s duty to rebuild all schools and hospitals and universities to accommodate animals 18 feet tall.
There is speculation that the government hopes to finalise the guidance after the EHRC’s outgoing chair, Kishwer Falkner, who was appointed under the Conservatives, finishes her term at the end of next month.
Ah. Wait it out so that they can continue to destroy women’s rights. How impressive.
Nobody’s being excluded from public spaces. Trans people can still go to restaurants, libraries, theaters, can still ride buses and trains can still have picnics in the park and go sunbathing at the beach. It’s women’s spaces that trans-identified men are being excluded from. Toilets, locker rooms, prisons, shelters.
As a man, I’m excluded from those spaces too. And that’s as it should be. I don’t think I’ll ever understand why people don’t get that.
Yeah well it’s some campaign groups who said it, and it’s not hard to guess what kind. Men are being excluded from many public spaces in the sense that they sulk and fume and stay home if they’re not allowed to terrorize and shame and gross out women by lurking or barging into the women’s spaces. Diddums.
Yeah, it’s not “public spaces” they’re worried about losing access to, it’s continued appropriation and occupation and of women’s spaces that they are desperate to retain. They want to hold onto what they’ve stolen. Funny how this theft is so often framed as a “loss” of trans “rights,” rather than as the restoration of Women’s rights, safety, and security. “NO CONFLICT!” my ass. Talk to Sandie Peggie and then get back to me. TIM intrusions into female-only, single sex spaces were always, and always will be invasive, as these “transwomen” were never women, and never will be women. Stonewall Law was always wrong. Its “advice” was never lawful, it only identified as such, depending on flattery, bluster, and bullying to get it’s extra-judicial, extra-legal “rulings” accepted as the law of the land, giving pseudo-legal cover to the outrageous, aggressive male invasion of women’s facilities. This wasn’t so much a social justice, or civil rights movement as it was a misogynistic smash and grab, or home invasion. Having been caught in the wrong, they expect us to consider them the wronged, marginalized victims, rather than intruders resisting eviction and arrest. By trans “standards” I’m “exclusionary” for locking my front door in order to keep people I don’t want out of my home. I get to do that. Women get to have spaces of their own, away from men.
The ruling Supreme Court is “exclusionary” to the extent that it is intended to keep people who don’t belong in female spaces (i.e. men) out of those spaces. This is not hard to understand unless one is really keen on eroding women’s boundaries. That is what people who claim that this is “complicated”, or that the issue requires “more study”, or who want to water down or bypass the clear, straightforward ruling on biological sex are actually defending. Make them own their misogyny, because at this point, that’s what it is. It is a zero sum game. Trans “rights” always come at the expense of women’s rights. Trans “rights” endanger women. There’s no way around that. They are an imposition of delusional belief on the rest of society, with women bearing the brunt of this imposition. We get to say “No”, and so do women. There’s no way around that, either.
‘Trans people can still go to restaurants, libraries, theaters, can still ride buses and trains can still have picnics in the park and go sunbathing at the beach.’
I work with Afghan girls and women. The other day I was talking with a group of young women about space design, and the distinction between public and private places, and asking them what public spaces they’d design in, say, a residential apartment block. While the discussion was going on I wondered whether I was actually being insensitive to women who, for four years, have not been permitted by their government to have the experience of being in a public space uncovered and unaccompanied by a man.
Cry harder, TIMs.