Guest post: Disability Rights UK opposes the law of the land

Our friend latsot posted a brief essay on twitx that deserves wider sharing. Here it is.

Disability Rights UK opposes the law of the land, specifically the Equality Act 2010.

It also opposes the disabled people it purports to represent.

It places a far, far greater priority on the wishes and feelings of men who say they are women than on the needs of disabled people.

In all its talk of healthcare and the lamenting of gender-addled people being placed on wards relating to their sex, it does not once mention the necessity of single-sex intimate care for disabled women.

It does not say that disabled women should be allowed to choose the sex of the person carrying out their intimate care, which most often takes place in the woman’s own home, far from supervision.

It sees this as a far lesser priority than men being allowed to invade female wards, where they are known to be a danger.

Could there possibly be more of an indication that Disability Rights UK has entirely lost its way and is no longer a disability rights charity at all?

The charity’s statement does say one thing that initially seems to support disabled people: “We are appalled at implications from the Code that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead.”

I fully agree. However, it goes on to explain that its concern is not about disabled people who will lose our accessible facilities altogether if anyone and everyone is permitted to use them, but for the men who will be sad if they can’t invade women’s spaces.

Not “accessible spaces are under threat of colonisation by the able-bodied”, but “we will not be used as a ‘loophole’ in the wider erosion of trans rights.”

That is exactly the wrong way around.

Disabled people have known for a decade that the major disability charities are hopelessly captured. They’re pulling a Stonewall by going after easy money and cheap non-solutions to the problems disabled people face every day. They’re throwing us under the same bus Stonewall threw same-sex attracted people under.

We’ve known this and we’ve tried to fight it but we haven’t been heard.

The gender war against disabled people is about to intensify and we don’t have many allies.

Can I ask you to share this, to demand answers from the major disability charities if you can and to remember that gender ideology is not just a war on women, children and same-sex attracted people, it’s a war on disabled people too.

And we often feel as though we’re fighting it on our own.

Disability Rights UK statement.