A Green councillor who compared gender-critical authors to Holocaust deniers has been forced to study the Equality Act.
For fuck’s sake. Holocaust deniers are people who want to change the historical record to hide the fact that the Nazis murdered some eight million people. Gender critical people “deny” that people can change sex. Can we spot the difference? Yes we can: the part about murdering at least eight million people is missing.
The commonality is a factual claim, aka a truth claim. The nature of the truth claim, however, is radically different. You’d think that would be obvious to even the most mentally challenged “activist”.
Helen Elliott-Boult, a Green councillor for Stroud district council (SDC), justified the cancellation of an event featuring two authors critical of transgender ideology, set to take place at Stroud Brewery in the Cotswolds.
The event was cancelled because of fears for “the safety of members of our trans community”.
No it wasn’t. The cancelers didn’t really think the audience for the event was going to run out and physically attack their trans communinny. They just deploy this burble about fears to justify their thought-terminating censorship.
Council officers have mandated that Ms Elliott-Boult attend training, reinforcing that gender-critical views are protected by law in the UK.
Maybe they should start a little further back, and have her attend training in how to think clearly.
Ms Elliott-Boult justified the cancellation of the speaking event in the interest of “inclusion”, and compared de-platforming the gender-ideology sceptics to cancelling a Holocaust denier.
On the one hand, denying a horribly well-evidenced genocide; on the other hand, denying that humans can change sex. Quite the discrepancy.
Stroud has become an unexpected battleground for debates over gender ideology in recent years. In 2025, local police treated graffiti that stated “men can’t be women” as a hate crime.
Gloucestershire Constabulary launched an investigation into slogans daubed around Stroud ahead of the town’s annual Pride march, including the phrases “you can’t change sex”, “being female is not a costume”, and “trans women are men”.
Police said the graffiti was “targeted towards transgender people” and the incident was being treated as a “hate crime”.
Reality is not a hate crime. Reality can be horrible, and it often is, but it’s futile to try to arrest it or chastise it. The same goes for the purported interchangeability of sex. We can’t change our species, we can’t change our date of birth, and we can’t change our sex. To use a hackneyed phrase: it is what it is.
Ms Elliott-Boult responded in a statement, saying: “The complaint was resolved under the informal resolution provisions. I will be completing the same SDC councillor training as all SDC councillors. At no point did I make negative comments about gender-critical views.”
Well that’s a lie. If comparing said view to Holocaust denial is not “negative” (meaning harsh or hostile or similar) then what is?
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