When do we get to be visible?
An employment tribunal in South London has rejected the Metropolitan Police’s application to anonymise the identity of a witness in a gender-critical belief case.
Sex Matters intervened to object to the Met Police’s anonymity (“rule 49”) application on open-justice and public-interest grounds. We were recognised as having a legitimate interest, and Kerenza Davis made legal submissions and addressed the tribunal on our behalf.
The case of Melanie Newman v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the third recent gender-critical employment tribunal case where an anonymity order has been refused. Similar orders were applied for by the employers and refused by the tribunal in the cases of Sandie Peggie v Fife Health Board and the Darlington Nurses.
They all want to bully women in secret, eh?
Melanie Newman is bringing a claim of harassment and discrimination based on gender-critical beliefs. The complaint dates back to 2023 when as a trainee police constable she was a virtual attendee at the official Trans Day of Visibility event being held at New Scotland Yard.
The event featured outside speakers Eva Echo, Shea Coffey, Stephanie Robinson and Saba Ali, and organiser and Metropolitan Police employee Kit Moore.
Funny how all four outside speakers are men pretending to be women. Rubbing the real women’s noses in it, eh?
Newman found Eva Echo’s talk in particular shocking, upsetting and highly politicised. According to her notes, Echo referred to those who raise concerns about single-sex spaces and women’s sports as “motivated by hate”, showing “cult-like behaviour” and having “twisted, warped views”.
Because we don’t think men can be women.
It’s just non-stop bullying, is what it is.
This video with Jessi knocked my socks off. It took thirty years for a butch lesbian who transitioned to realize she just has to be a butch lesbian, and screw what people think. Her transition was a way for her to feel “safe,” not to actually be a man. Her story is epic.
https://youtu.be/iOTpnLX8Okw?si=8R2OVCLhTa9UhCDV
Shouldn’t a “trans Day of Visibility” feature some trans identified female speakers? Don’t they deserve “visibility”? Or are TiMs the only ones that matter, because it’s female barriers that need to be violated, and women who need to be browbeaten into accepting it? There’s certainly not the equivalent pressure from TiFs to invade male spaces, but shouldn’t they be “seen” too? Why the imbalance? I wonder. (No, not really.)
This TiMward skew sure seems to confirm that this movement is driven by men, for men, and intended to bully and gaslight female officers, who have much more to lose in this struggle for reality than men. As an added insult to and degradation of their sex, female officers are also clearly expected to stand aside and accept female suspects being subjected to intimate searches by male officers who claim to be women. This is all the more shocking and frightening because police officers are expected to uphold the law, but the law they seem most interested in is Stonewall “law.” There’s going to be a need for a lot of housecleaning and deprogramming once this madness is over and done with. It’s tragic and infuriating just how quickly and enthusiastically so many police forces accepted and absorbed the indoctrination that turned them into such staunch allies, champions, and bullies for men claiming to be women, without ever having been remotely supportive of women.
“Transphobia”? A vile hate-crime that must be rooted out using the full power of the law. Misogyny? You’re soaking in it.