Well there’s a headline.
National Education Union conference to debate if Supreme Court trans ruling is ‘attempted genocide’
Of course it’s not. What a ludicrous and downright abusive question. No, kiddies, saying that men are not women is not attempted genocide. The question is insanely insulting and misogynistic.
The National Education Union (NEU) is set to discuss whether the 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman constitutes “attempted genocide” against transgender people.
Delegates are expected to debate the issue today (31 March) at the union’s annual conference in Brighton.
According to the Daily Mail, Britain’s largest teaching union may hear arguments that the judgment amounts to an “attempted erasure of a group from public life”, with criticism potentially directed at both the judiciary and the government.
Fancy footwork. “Erasure of a group from public life” is not genocide. It’s a sneaky rhetorical move to pretend that it does. “Erasure” can mean elimination but it can also mean simply ignoring, withdrawing attention from, indifference, disbelief, refusal to promote and amplify. It can include pointing out that a putative “group” is not necessarily or automatically entitled to public attention. You can call three people at a bus stop a group, but that doesn’t mean those three people are owed public attention. It’s not written on a Sacred Tablet somewhere that people who claim to be the sex they are not are owed fervent intense admiring public attention.
The word “group” is not sacred. The existence of a group does not automatically entail public enthusiasm and endorsement.
The Supreme Court previously ruled that, under the Equality Act, the definition of a woman is based on biological sex, a decision that has prompted ongoing debate about the operation of single-sex spaces and the inclusion of trans people.
How do you prompt ongoing debate? If it’s ongoing it doesn’t need prompting, does it.
Anyway…you’ll never guess what’s coming next. Or perhaps you will.
Today’s debate follows a motion submitted to conference which describes the ruling as a “step towards an attempt to erase that group’s existence”.
“The goal of which is to completely erase transgender people” – Lemkin Institute on trans rights in the US
The discussion comes amid similar warnings internationally. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has issued multiple Red Flag Alerts in response to anti-trans policies in the United States.
Oh good god. How many times do we have to point out that the “Lemkin Institute” is just one or two people and a label? They’re not Hannah Arendt, they’re not Philip Gourevitch, they’re not authorities.
I repeat. Saying men are not women is not genocidal.
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