Why so quiet, bitch?
This one paragraph in a Telegraph piece on trans ideology and the gun-toting police abuse of Graham Linehan…
Look at the health service. In Scotland, a nurse named Sandie Peggie has taken NHS Fife to a tribunal after it suspended her for complaining about a male trans colleague using the female changing room. This week, lawyers representing NHS Fife argued that there’s “no evidence” that women, Ms Peggie aside, “have a problem” sharing female-only spaces with male trans people.
Really? Has it not occurred to NHS Fife that, if women don’t complain, it might just be because they’re scared? Not least because complaining might get them punished by their employer?
That.
Trans “activism” is uniquely privileged among social justice movements in the way it is protected by governments and cops, protected so fiercely and thoroughly that most dissenters are silent because they don’t want to be ferociously punished for not being silent.
Why are the police and the state so extremely intent on protecting trans ideology and its believers when the police and the state were not at all quick to defend feminism or socialism or anti-imperialism?
I don’t know. All this time, and I still don’t know.
I suspect you do know why, Ophelia, but the severe disappointment can make it hard to admit sometimes:
Patriarchy and misogyny run so deep that they are de facto foundational principles for our society.
It’s like the old saying about a fish not knowing it is in water… that’s how embedded and surrounded we all are by the hatred. Unless someone has learned how to look for it, they will never see it. It is the very air that we breathe.
Well I don’t really think I’m in denial about pervasive misogyny seeing as how I never shut up about it!
The police in the UK have that well covered with pervasive rape-ignoring. Adding trans ideology seems supererogatory.
I’ve said this before:
If a person is a heterosexual, nondisabled adult man, then the “trans rights” movement is unlikely to negatively affect their interests. This is why I believe the “trans rights” movement has been able to get so far.
And why the police and the state are also extremely intent on protecting trans activists, in a way that they don’t do for (say) nuclear disarmament activists.