No YOU spout myths
Our gender recognition law is not perfect, but it is right
Is it? How is it right to have a law that “recognizes” pretend genders? Is it right to have a law that recognizes the human ability to fly like a bird?
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Opponents spout myths on sport and single-sex spaces while ignoring the evidence that the trans community poses no threat and self-determination works
Point either missed or deliberately ignored. After all this time, the latter is far more likely.
What does saying “the trans community poses no threat” have to do with anything? Nobody says they’re like the Taliban. Point one is that people can’t change sex. Point two is that letting men pretend to be women with zero real-life restrictions makes nonsense of women’s rights. It’s not a threat, it’s an ongoing reality.
What does “self-determination works” even mean? If I self-determine that I’m Leo Varadkar would that work for Leo Varadkar?
It’s just glib empty slogans in place of thought, and I’m fed up to the back teeth with it.
Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the coming into force of the Gender Recognition Act. It is one of the most progressive laws of its type in the world, given that it allows people to have their preferred gender recognised in law without having to undergo a medical or psychological test, let alone surgery or medication.
That’s not progressive. Ask women, you stupid tree trunk.
All around the western world, trans people are being demonised and scapegoated by populist, nationalist and religious fundamentalist actors. As always, those actors need an enemy within to target. They tell their citizens that allowing people to have their preferred gender recognised in law will lead to social breakdown and disaster. Women and children will not be safe. The floodgates will open and millions of confused children won’t know if they are a boy or a girl.
Blah blah blah. Doesn’t get within shouting distance of the actual problems.
With heads of state like this…
“Opponents spout myths on sport and single-sex spaces while ignoring the evidence that the trans community poses no threat.” Really? The strong correlation between serial killers and cross dressing was once well known and taught in criminology courses. Wikipedia even had an entry on the subject with a list of them. You won’t find it now, of course – too transphobic. That’s not to say the whole “community” is made up of serial killers, but you can’t say they pose “no treat” when the opposite is shown every time women meet to talk about women’s rights.
Varadkar in the Times mentions Barbie Kardashian only to dismiss him and say he’s not representative.
Really?
Of course Leo doesn’t want ‘Barbie’ to be mentioned, because his existence confirms that the risk (which Leo denies) is real. Besides, Leo, as a gay man, is the last person who should be listened to when he declares that the Irish GRA (sneaked in, without fanfare, hidden in the referendum on marriage reform) has no negative consequences because he’s got zero interest in Irish women and our rights. FFS, under his watch the government tried to remove the word ‘mother’ from existing legislation! The backlash from the population stopped them, but they’re still not listening to the objections to the GRA.
Anyway, nobody is claiming that all people who declare a ‘trans identity’ are dangerous, only that we can’t tell in advance which ones will be; so ALL men must be kept out of women’s safe spaces, including the ones pretending to believe that they are women.
P.S. I shall be henceforth referring to him as ” The Stupid Tree Trunk”. Thank you!
Hah! The “Stupid Tree Trunk”! I love it! :)
The reason that this is such an uphill battle to fight gender ideology is that leftish people have bought the idea that it is a matter of autonomy to be recognized as trans. And also, the refusal to accept it is rooted in Christian Nationalism. This helps explain the “talk to the hand” response whenever I try to talk about the issues that matter in gender ideology. I don’t know where to begin when Outfront Minnesota has made it clear that they don’t hear the voices of the women and girls affected, and instead point out how many attacks on women are not by trans id men, blah blah blah.
Right, so none of them could possibly be “Schrodinger’s Rapist,” could they? I mean, you know they are actual factual women!