In a crowded field
Bristol city council has been accused of offending women with “virtue-signalling madness” after claiming that legally defining sex as biological “misgenders trans people” and could lead to discrimination.
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The comments were made in a 39-page response to a consultation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on updates to its guidance, following the Supreme Court ruling in April this year that sex in equality laws refers to biological sex.
The guidance, which is waiting final approval by ministers, is understood to state that trans women cannot be admitted to women’s single sex spaces.
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Bristol city council, whose Green Party leader Tony Dyer has criticised the Supreme Court ruling, raised a number of objections, including urging the EHRC to drop gendered language when referring to pregnancy, maternity and breastfeeding.
They wrote that “not all pregnant individuals would use the pronouns ‘she/her’” and so it could add “emotional and psychological distress” for “trans men, non-binary, gender diverse or intersex individuals”.
Maybe, but then it could add emotional and psychological distress for women to pretend that women don’t exist. There are far more women than there are trans men, non-binary, gender diverse or intersex individuals. Arguably there are zero trans men, non-binary, gender diverse or intersex individuals, since none of those labels name anything but invented labels for eccentric opinions about sex and idenniny. Either way women are in the majority by a huge margin, so why is this Green Tony Dyer fella so concerned about the feelings of a handful at the expense of the feelings of billions?
“We strongly advise the use of more inclusive language such as using ‘they/them’ to refer to all individuals, or include other identities to reflect the diversity of individuals who access maternity or paternity services,” officials argued.
“This could include ‘people with ovaries’ or the term ‘people who use paternity services’. We also recognise that individuals may not identify with the word maternity and prefer paternity as it is gender neutral.
WHAT?????
Like fucking hell it is. Mater: Latin for mother. Pater: Latin for father. The word father is not one atom more “gender neutral” than the word mother is.
“Additionally, it is unclear what support will be available to trans people who chestfeed to ensure they are protected from discrimination.”
The word is “breastfeed” and what does it have to do with trans people and discrimination? Women can breastfeed, men cannot; end of discussion.
Protections based on biological sex are “too vague”, the response added, as: “It is unclear whether it refers to anyone capable of pregnancy, or only those who were assigned female at birth.”
If you look closely you will find that those are the same thing. Male people are not capable of pregnancy; end of discussion.
Council officials complain that the new guidance implies that “trans women are not ‘really’ women” and risks “creating a hostile environment in public services”.
Oh blah blah blah. Go do something useful.
Vague? If you want vague, ask a TRA for a definition of “gender” or “gender identity”. Sex based definitions need nothing but a check with physical reality “Gender” requires the existence of entities not in evidence. Your problem with protections based on biology is that they are too precise, cutting through and across the intentionally nebulous boundaries needed to successfully smuggle men into women’s spaces, and pretend that women claiming to be men are actually male.
It’s not an implication, it’s a goddamn fact. They aren’t women of any kind; they are men. Apparently this needs to be bullhorned, so that idiots like you can even hear it.
You’ve already created a hostile environment for women by trying to erase their existence, and by forcing them to accept men in spaces that were originally meant for females alone. The Supreme Court judgement will stop you from maintaining the hostile environment you’ve worked so hard to establish and enforce. Explain to women why continuing this is hostility to them is so important for you. And, while you’re at it, fuck off.
But you have to hand it to them. For their numbers, they generate one helluva lot of fuss and noise, and are clearly masters, repeat masters, at the game of political lobbying, influencing, bribing, threatening and whatever it takes. to advance their dodgy cause..
Or should that be the dodgy cause of they/them? It’s a tough one.
It has just occurred to me that if the Bristolian Greens want to eradicate anything and everything relating specifically to women, they need to change the city’s name. I’m not sure why, out of all English cities, Bristol was chosen for it but ‘bristols’ has long been rhyming slang for breasts (Bristol City – titty). Anyone for Chestville?