Invisible women
If you’re a woman and a teacher in the UK you don’t have a union that looks out for your interests.
Britain’s largest teaching union has voted to campaign against the Supreme Court ruling on gender, insisting trans women in schools must be allowed to use ladies’ toilets.
The Left-wing National Education Union (NEU) resolved on Saturday to advocate for trans teachers to continue to choose toilets according to ‘gender identity’.
Which is a massive “fuck you” to women.
The judgement, which states a woman is defined by biological sex, effectively means a male-born trans person can be excluded from female-only spaces.
However, the NEU’s resolution means it may now intervene to provide legal assistance for trans teachers if they are banned from female toilets or girls’ changing rooms.
Not legal assistance for women who don’t want to take their clothes off with men in the room, but legal assistance for men who want to take their clothes off with women in the room. Solidarity Forever eh what?
Daniel Kebede, General Secretary, said: ‘The NEU is looking carefully at the Supreme Court ruling and its implications for employment. A toxic climate has been created in recent years in which trans people, a small community, are treated as if they are a risk or threat to others.’
Go to hell, Mr Kebede. Men are a threat to women if they’re insisting on invading women’s spaces and watching them take their clothes off. Men who are not a threat to women don’t want to do that. Do you get it now? The adamant insistence on intruding on women is a guy thing, and it’s revolting to see men lining up to defend it and encourage it.
The 52 executive members, mostly regional reps, voted in favour of a motion called ‘trans rights are human rights’.
The motion says the ruling ‘contradicts human rights and dignity of trans and other gender-diverse staff and encourages discrimination, harassment and hate crimes’.
What about the human rights and dignity of women?
It’s so interesting how they simply take for granted that “trans rights” get to cancel women’s rights.
. . . All the while flatly denying that they are cancelling, or even affecting, women’s rights. The audacity is just infuriating.
This time I don’t think that activists will be able to get away with shutting things down by simply yelling “TWAW! NO CONFLICT!! NO DEBATE!!!” The Supreme Court ruling is a big hole blown into the empty suit of armour that is “trans rights”. If activists can be put on the defencive, and forced to “argue” their case, then maybe they can be made to own the rank misogyny this stance is. I don’t think there’s any wiggle room in the judgement’s clarification stipulating “biological sex” for anyone to get away with the kind of bait and switch word games that flip flop between “sex” and “gender” that activists have relied upon so heavily.
I recall an almost identical statement. Replace “trans” above with “men”, and this was the same argument being rolled out, by men, when women began to be heard just a little more about rape and sexual assault, when women were pointing out how poorly rape victims were treated by Police and Courts (what were you wearing? How much did you drink). It wasn’t all men; it was just a small cohort of men. Men who hid in plain sight amongst other men who would leap to the man’s defence when accused.
Men, do better. If you’re going to beat women in an argument, you need better arguments.