Waiting for guidance
Telegraph exclaims
Transgender people face ban from single-sex spaces based on appearance
Yes, and?
People have always faced bans from single-sex spaces based on appearance. That’s because appearance is how we know who is what. It always has been. What else would it be? Identity papers? Come on. There just aren’t enough edge cases to make that not true.
Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on appearance under equalities guidance, it has been reported.
NHS trusts, councils and businesses have continued to allow trans women to use female-only facilities despite the Supreme Court ruling in April that laws against sex-based discrimination should only apply to biological women. Service providers have been waiting for updated guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to be published before instituting changes in venues open to the public.
In other words service providers have been stalling, because they don’t want to let go of the fun of tormenting women.
Rebecca Paul, the Conservative MP for Reigate, recently asked if and when the Government would get round to implementing the law on single sex spaces, particularly prisons. “HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Banstead, has five biological males in it,” she told the Commons.
Yes yes yes but it’s only women, so it doesn’t matter.
Fixed it for them.
What is it about this issue that makes organizations and individuals become particularly helpless and stupid?
not Bruce, the biggest problem with this issue will be the utter loss of face and reputation when individuals and whole groups will be forced to finally admit they were wrong. Trans dogma has become so embedded into British establishments, from the Civil Service to the Women’s Institute, that reversing has become too embarrassing. Too many parts of government, law enforcement and education took the Stonewall Blue Pill.
My, thankfully, now former UK state employer was so besotted with the whole gender identity thing it became impossible to avoid. All the HR documents, posters and job adverts kept demanding that there are ten protected characteristics under the 2010 Equality Act. When colleagues and I pointed out there were nine, and that gender identity was not one of them, we were issued verbal warnings (ironically, in print) and told to shut up and re-educate ourselves. (That we printed the actual law out and used it evidence sent HR into a tizzy). Our trade union, supposedly to support us, sided with the organisation and sent out emails condemning our actions. The situation was not resolved before I left.
If that happened in my small outfit, I dread to think how it played out in larger ones.