Guest post: Its “progressive” status is taken as a given
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Jam tomorrow.
Women are just an annoying little faction, and can safely be ignored.
Strange how Labour (or much too large a chunk of it) is deathly afraid of that 0.1% of “women with penises” and their friends, as opposed to brushing off half the population. This minority has that power over them because Labour gave it to them. Labour might feel it’s gone too far to step away from this parasitical “alliance”, but doing so would probably win them more support than it would cost. It’s too bad they can’t see this. If they don’t, their statements in support of genderism over the last few years are going to be held up as examples of lunacy and extremism for decades to come. Forget the “wrong side of history”; how about the wrong side of reality. Ironic that this stance completely guts any pretense that Labour really supports women’s rights, handing this issue to Tories on a silver platter, like Democrats and Republicans in the US.
Trans activism has been much more successful at selling itself as a “progressive” movement, than it has at convincing people that men can be women, as many seem to go along with the former in order to “be kind” (or to avoid the attentions of gender goblins), who nevertheless reject the latter. Its “progressive” status is taken as a given, despite the evidence of its inherent misogyny, homophobia, and its reliance on lies, bullying, and intimidation.
However it managed to work its way into the progressive platform, the real question is how do we get it out? It is a blight and cancer that needs to be excised. Genderism as it is exemplified in its current form, is a drain of resources, and a distraction from more important matters. It forces women to needlessly re-fight battles that had just barely been won, while adding this additional burden of invasive, predatory, trans activism to their already ongoing struggles. How do we shut down this shit show?
At least the UK Tories have backed away from gender woo. In Canada, the Conservatives were notably silent on the issue in the recent election, which is surprising given the success of Trump’s “Kamala is for they/them” ad campaign and PM Carney’s “they/them” daughter.
Part of it may be that the Conservatives voted unanimously in a whipped vote to criminalize gay and trans conversion therapy, effectively making affirmation the only therapeutic option for gender dysphoria. In contrast, the UK and US have made some progress in rolling back trans privilege. Even in Australia, Victoria MP Moira Deeming won her lawsuit against the Liberal leader who defamed her as a Nazi sympathizer in the wake of a Let Women Speak rally. But Canada has seen no movement on gender woo at all. In fact, even discussing it is largely taboo. We were one of the first on the train and it looks like we’ll be among the last off.
For the moment, I think the existential threat posed by Donald Trump’s continued musing about annexing Canada, along with the “Buy Canadian” response to this (and the whole tariff situation) has left room for little else on the table. But a reality-denying movement that relies entirely on lies and bullying can’t stand forever. You can’t bully reality. Maybe it will take a few successful lawsuits by detransitioners to get the ball rolling. Who Knows?
Which, of course, describes the Trump administration and trans ideology.
The only problem I see with this formulation is that the Catholic Church is still around. It’s been 2000 years, which I realize isn’t forever, but in the sense of human lifetimes, might as well be.
Yeah see also Islam and a string of other religions.