Public gets to watch
But the nonsense train rumbles on regardless.
An NHS board has failed in its attempt to prevent the public from watching a tribunal about a trans doctor allowed to use a female hospital changing room.
NHS Fife asked the judge overseeing the case brought by the nurse Sandie Peggie to remove public access to an online live stream of the employment tribunal’s proceedings.
Gee I wonder if that’s because NHS Fife is aware that it looks like a pack of women-hating bullies.
But it is understood that Sandy Kemp, the tribunal judge, has ruled that the public should be allowed to watch the case, in line with the principles of open justice. He is also said to have rejected an application by NHS Fife to ban an open justice campaign group from posting live social media updates about the case on X.
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The first part of the Peggie tribunal was held two months before the Supreme Court ruled in a separate case that access to female-only areas should be based on biological sex.
And now the rest of it will be held after that ruling. Am I gloating? Of course I am.
This week, Ms Peggie welcomed the ruling and challenged NHS Fife to dump its policy of “permitting any man who identifies as a woman access to female-only, single-sex spaces”.
For Women Scotland, the feminist campaign group that won the Supreme Court case, said it was delighted that the tribunal judge had “upheld the principles of open justice” by allowing the public to continue watching proceedings.
Trina Budge, one of the group’s directors, said: “NHS Fife has behaved appallingly in seeking to have the remainder of this case heard behind closed doors.
All this bullying and sneaking and lying and whining in aid of men who pretend to be women. Just imagine if women had ever had a tenth of the support that men in lipstick have been rejoicing in for years.
Make. Them. Squirm. Quote their woman-hating back at them. Make them own it. Turn them into a warning for all such organizations who willingly chose to prioritize male feelings over women’s safety. Let them become an object lesson and a handy go-to reference for legal consel of any body or authority that went down the same hateful road. I can see the Post-its now: “Shut up, settle, and shut up again; re: NHS Fife decision.”
If NHS Fife is so afraid of the public seeing exactly what it is they’re defending, maybe that should give them a hint that maybe they shouldn’t have been victimizing and punishing women in this way in the first place?
Some misogynistic UK labour unions, the Corrections service, the BBC, UK police forces…etc. next please.
I’m sure they’re also not wild about the fact that the public will see for themselves that this poor cringing terrified ‘trans woman’ is twice Sandy Peggie’s size.
It seems to me that in the time that this issue has been around, the men in lipstick have supported one another 100%. No dissenters in that mob that I am aware of. And they obviously have had supporters and sympathisers in certain high places. But these bullshit artists have united pretty much the entire population of women of the world against them, and a good lot of men as well; including those who do not want their mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and female friends to have to run a gauntlet of potential rapists and assorted pervs every time they enter a washroom or other space normally set aside for women’s exclusive use. And mass sympathy for them is not growing. Quite the opposite as far as I can see. It is shrinking.
Publicity does their cause no good at all.
Unfortunately there are still plenty of Quisling women who continue to hug “trans women” and bully feminist women.
Framing transwomen as the most marginalized, vulnerable, and oppressed of all has been an unmitigated boon to the Genderist movement. Not only does it allow the question of whether males can be female to turn into a civil rights issue particularly appealing to women (“Of COURSE you’re a real woman, you poor dear!”) but it made lack of fair scrutiny a way of protecting the weak. It would be so embarrassing, humiliating, and dangerous to allow the public to peer into the personal trials of the man invading woman’s spaces. He’s the real victim in all this.
There’s something very liberating about saying I don’t much care about his feelings. That was their major weapon – that failing to care about his feelings made you criminally insensitive. Turns out though that there’s another side. Show it to the world.
I can’t for the life of me see why or how it’s a civil rights issue particularly appealing to women. From where I am it’s a bogus civil rights issue particularly insulting and enraging to women. It’s like telling workers that billionaires are the truly suppressed and deprived class. It’s like bringing Afrikaners to the US as refugees from racism. It just doesn’t compute, yet it has worked. I’ll never understand it.
@6 I think at least part of it was that the original public face of trans was a series of delicate little boys; women in general do care about children and want to protect them.
@5 great, as usual, essay from Victoria Smith:
“Do you have any sympathy for transgender women who want to play with women and may feel this decision has excluded them from a sport that they love and they get a lot out of?” asks the male interviewer. “No,” says Vaughan. Just plain “no”.
https://thecritic.co.uk/cerys-vaughan-shows-what-real-gender-non-conformity-is/