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The treatment of transgender people in Britain could breach the European Convention on Human Rights, a watchdog has warned. Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, has written to senior MPs to raise his concerns about trans rights in the UK.
He urged the Government to avoid legal uncertainty for trans people in the wake of the Supreme Court‘s landmark ruling in April. Mr O’Flaherty also warned against breaching the human rights of trans people through ‘blanket practices or policies’ on single-sex spaces.
Well what are the rights of trans people? Do male trans people have a right to go into women’s spaces? Of course not, any more than they have a right to go into women’s kitchens and raid the fridge or into women’s beds and rape them. The “blanket” part is crucial. There are no exceptions for women’s right to have spaces where men can’t follow them. It’s not Michael O’Flaherty’s job to declare exceptions to that right.
In a letter to Lord Alton of Liverpool and Sarah Owen MP, the chairs of two parliamentary committees, he criticised a tendency to ‘see the human rights of different groups as a zero-sum game’.
‘This has contributed to narratives which build on prejudice against trans people and portray upholding their human rights as a de facto threat to the rights of others,’ he added.
Bollocks. Men are men. That’s not a “narrative” and it’s not a “prejudice.” Men are barred from some women’s spaces for good reasons; when it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
I do wonder what’s going on in these people’s heads. He can’t possibly be this stupid, but he doesn’t have any clear reason to be disingenuous.
O’Flaherty seems to have traded one religion for another. He used to be an ordained priest and gay advocate, then left the church to draft the Yogyakarta Principles. Neither religion is particularly kind to women and children. https://thecritic.co.uk/ireland-has-become-an-exporter-of-gender-ideology/
In a lot of cases, rights are a zero-sum game. Your rights (or perceived rights, which is what we’re really talking about with ‘trans rights’) may have to be put aside for the rights of another. You can’t exercise your ‘right to smoke’ (perceived right) on my property (real right) if I say you can’t.
The Bill of Rights is often quoted as if it is somehow binding in a way it isn’t. It binds law-makers, not everyone. I can tell someone you can’t do this on my property, even if Congress can’t tell you that. There have been laws to extend those rights to people who operate private businesses that are open to the public, but it still doesn’t cover every space, every instance.
Who was it that stated that one’s right to swing one’s fist ends where someone else’s nose begins?
I fear Michael O’Flaherty may be correct. The problem is that all those Human Rights declared in the the European Convention are articles that have to be interpreted. And there are indications that the ECHR tends to interpret those rights broadly and is inclined to agree that people have the right to be treated according to their gender identity.
So although I agree it is absurd, absurdity doesn’t contradict legaly correct.