You are polarized, we are balanced
Aha, it turns out everything is Sandie Peggie’s fault after all.
NHS Fife has revealed it’s called in police after a threat of “physical harm and sexual violence” was received by a staff member as the health board defended its actions in a contentious employment tribunal.
In a statement published just as the tribunal was concluding for the day, the health board also
hit out atscolded the organisation Sex Matters, whose chair is the KC representing the claimaint in the case, nurse Sandie Peggie.…
In the surprise statement this afternoon, NHS Fife said it was “having to defend” itself and wanted to answer questions posed by the press and politicians, addressing “misinformation” online. It urged
forrespect for “the privacy of all those giving evidence”, following “significant and very polarised debate” on social media.
Hmm. Polarized debate is it. Whose fault is that? Who polarized it? Which team is it that thinks it’s fine for men to hang out in women’s changing rooms and toilets but not at all fine for women to want their own changing rooms and toilets, with zero men joining in?
The statement said: “In some cases, however, what began as debate has evolved into much more worrying behaviour, including a threat of physical harm and sexual violence, which has required the involvement of Police Scotland.”
Yo NHS Fife do you have any idea of the kind of bullying that gender-skeptical women are subject to?
It said: “The claimant’s case is being supported by Sex Matters, whose chief executive officer and co-founder was called as a witness by the claimant in the earlier hearing.
“The claimant’s barrister is also chair of Sex Matters. Other members of the organisation’s ‘advisory group’ have provided commentary to the media on a number of occasions where no reference is made to their direct involvement.”
But Maya Forstater, chief executive of Sex Matters, said the statement was “an extraordinary intervention from NHS Fife, even by the board’s standards. NHS Fife has dug itself into a reputational black hole. If the only way forward the board can see is to lash out, including by criticising Sex Matters, which has at all times acted with propriety and in pursuit of its charitable objects, that suggests desperation.”
It also suggests a certain deficit of…what to call it…decency?
H/t Wes
Excuse me? The entire problem is that this began with the threat of physical harm and sexual violence — what the hell do you think that men demanding to enter women’s private sex-segregated spaces even is? — with NO debate whatsoever, backed up by more menaces of physical harm and other violence to prevent any women from protecting themselves from this perverted outrage. You’ve got the dynamic entirely backwards.
And you want to complain about “misinformation”? The biggest misinformation — otherwise known as a lie — is that men can be women if they say so, that sex is not easily defined or determinable, and that sex doesn’t matter. That’s YOUR fault, YOUR lies.
If they have indeed received threats of “physical harm and sexual violence”, that is, of course, totally unacceptable. Still, they are hardly in a position to complain about that “if” after so much apocalyptic transperbole. They should have taken a lesson from old Aesop about the dangers of falsely crying wolf too many times.
They need to provide evidence of these threats. When GC women are threatened with physical harm and sexual violence, they present the tweets as evidence; the other side never does. I guess because it might be hard to get the general public to believe that a threat of calling a man a man is really violence.
They may have received such threats; there are always bad players who take advantage of bad situations. But again, they need to explain exactly what these threats were, how many, and how credible. We do that; let them put on a show.