Hand-picked
The feminist group that secured the landmark Supreme Court ruling asserting that sex is binary has raised fears that a “Nicola Sturgeon crony” has been put in charge of implementing it in Scotland.
Minutes of a Scottish government working group set up to consider revisions to allegedly unlawful gender self-ID policies in place across the public sector reveal it was initially led by Louise Macdonald, director-general for communities.
Macdonald, then working in the charity sector, was hand-picked by Sturgeon to co-chair the then first minister’s independent taskforce on women and girls before joining the government in 2022 as director-general for the economy.
Fox guarding henhouse much?
Macdonald displays “she/her’ pronouns on her online CV and has previously posted online in support of Transgender Day of Remembrance, an event some gender critical activists claim is designed to spread unevidenced claims that trans people face heightened risk of murder.
Gee ya think??? Are you sure it’s only some gender criticals? I’d bet on most or all. It’s so trans ideology typical: maudlin claims of fragility and vulnerability as men help themselves to everything women have struggled for over the past half-century. If only we could have 365 days of trans forgettance.
John Swinney, the first minister, has said the group chaired by Macdonald is taking forward detailed work on how to implement the Supreme Court ruling, which found that for the purposes of UK equalities law sex is based on biology.
However, he has faced repeated accusations of deliberate delays in implementing the ruling, with For Women Scotland pushing ahead with a third legal case, after two earlier victories over SNP ministers in court, designed to quash self-ID policies in schools and prisons.
No no no it’s not that the delays are deliberate, it’s just that his shoelaces keep breaking.
The group formally lodged legal papers at the Court of Session on Monday, after ministers failed to meet a deadline to withdraw the schools and prisons guidance.
They tried to meet it! Really they did! It was those damn shoelaces!!
Marion Calder, a For Women Scotland director, said: “How can women have confidence in the Scottish government to implement the law, when a first minister who doesn’t even know what a woman is cherry-picked this person to lead a women and girls taskforce?
“It comes as no surprise that the Scottish government is refusing to follow the law when a Nicola Sturgeon crony was apparently tasked with leading its response.
“That she displays pronouns in her biography and has endorsed transactivist propaganda only goes to show that, even now, no lessons have been learnt.”
Calder added: “Formal papers have now been lodged at the Court of Session and if the SNP will not do the right thing voluntarily, we have no option but to force them to through the courts.”
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The working group set up by the Scottish government was instrumental in drawing up its response to an EHRC consultation.
It called for an “inclusive approach” to be taken to both “biological women and trans women” in granting access to single-sex services, such as domestic abuse centres or homelessness services, leading to new accusations that it was trying to get around the law.
Sigh. You can’t take that kind of “inclusive approach” and still be doing the thing you’re supposed to be doing. If you take that kind of “inclusive approach” to domestic abuse centres or homelessness services then you’re not providing women with safe domestic abuse centres or homelessness services. What you are doing is coddling your own vanity at the expense of extremely vulnerable women. I sincerely hope you can’t sleep at night.
I just hate that shoelaces problem! It’s so difficult to get anything done when your shoelaces are broken…
Unfortunately, appointing loafers to get the job done doesn’t work either.
Flip-flops? Riding boots? Catch me-fuck me shoes? God damn Florsheim shoes?
Clogs?
You know, while I have no faith in the ‘most endangered minority’ claims by the trans community, I certainly believe that transwomen are targeted for sexual assault more than ‘cis’ men are, and need help. (Hell, imagine finally getting what you at least think you want, only to have it served up with a side of sexual assault. For those genuinely suffering from the more severe forms of gender dysphoria, that would be horrific, full stop.) And if the ‘movement’ had ever just advocated for support services for transwomen in that situation, I’d be totally down with it. Hell, pass a Pallid Phallus Tax to pay for it, I’m down.
But instead, the self-anointed spokespeople for the TRAs decided that they had to invade the existing institutions, which were not really set up with them in mind, and likely wouldn’t be able to handle the specific issues that transwomen victims were suffering (again, that whole gender dysphoria thing). So this is a very real case of the ‘movement leadership’ actively harming their own constituency, while at the same time attacking another. More proof that this movement is more similar to conservativism than progressive movements.