Even more unhinged
That letter, the one signed by Stephen Whittle and Finn McKay among others – it’s remarkably bad. Couldn’t they find someone to write a literate and coherent few hundred words? If they could, why didn’t they?
On Tuesday 30 May 2023, C4 is screening a documentary with the title ‘Gender Wars’.
We, the undersigned transgender and non-binary (TNB)people are featured in the documentary,
· DID NOT AGREE to take part in the documentary viewers will see, and
· would NOT HAVE AGREED to take part in any documentary focused on Kathleen Stock.
Either omit “are” before “featured in the documentary” or add “and” after it. For cryin’ out loud.
We wish to clarify to our peers within the TNB community that we were not told the true nature of the documentary. It was only on seeing the first preview, in late April, that we become aware of the true nature of the film.
Don’t say “the true nature of” twice in two sentences.
On seeing the previews all shocked and have expressed our dismay and anger to those responsible.
All shocked, eh? All shocked what? Or whom?
Then there’s the substance, which is dumb.
Stephen Whittle originally declined to take part after his previous experience of working with C4 in 2018 on the much-critiqued Genderquake debate. That programme had ramped up the increasingly toxic rhetoric about the right to existence and non-discrimination of trans and non-binary people.
Nobody is saying anybody doesn’t have “the right to existence.” If you can’t make your case without these moronic lies then what does that say about your case?
We all made it clear in our conversations with Pamela Gordon that we wanted to move away from any debate or questioning of our lives, our existence, or our rights.
It’s not the lives, the existence, the rights. It’s the ideology. The debate is about the ideology, and what flows from it. There is no “right” to force everyone to endorse other people’s fantasies about themselves. If there were, everyone would say “I’m King Charles, now give me all that money.” There wouldn’t be enough money to go around, so it would fall apart before it got started.
Maya sums it up:
I saw the program last night and I thought it was very good. Dr. Stephen Whittle and Dr. Gina Gwenffrewi were given plenty of time on the program to air their beliefs. It was balanced, and not in a Fox News way.
Yes, but the very idea that in the transmission of the show, the electrons that were carrying their images and words were in close proximity to those forming the pictures and speech of Dr. Stock was too much to endure. They were in danger of being in the un-safe electronic presence of a TERF! Just think; they could have been edited into a shot right before or after her, with no intervening pause of dead air, or even a content warning! How chilling!
It’s rather ironic of Kass Caldicott to complain he was shafted, given the way he treated Kathleen Stock (as shown in the programme). The lesson for him should be: if you don’t want to be portrayed as an utter shit, don’t act like one. Also: when did the pluralisation of “behaviour” begin? It always be uncountable to me.