1./ A thread. In the Scotsman, Laura Waddell argues the debate on trans demands has so far lacked "humanity". Really? She's not talking about the lack of humanity that led a Labour candidate to tweet an image of herself..
2./...blasting with a toxic chemical the much respected lesbian MP @joannaccherry . Labour promptly dropped that candidate. Well done they. Nor is Laura referring to the alleged assault aimed by a trans activist screaming at @bindelj the much admired campaigner ...
3./ ..for women's rights when she visited the Scottish capital to speak. Julie Bindel and her partner have devoted two decades of their lives to righting legal wrongs against women most recently in the moving case of Sally Challen. That may sound a lot like...
4./...humanity to you and me but doesn't appear to register on Laura's newly minted scale of good and evil. Weirdly Laura doesn't cite a single piece of evidence to support her claim of a lack of humanity among gender critical feminists against trans people or the activists...
5./ ..who claim to represent them. The only 'inhumanity' she can point to is women arguing against access by male-bodied people to changing rooms, toilets and other spaces that are single sex. Why they've been single sex until now is a mystery so deep it appears to elude her...
6./ ..but Laura doesn't bother to engage with any of those women's arguments. You know the ones: privacy, girls' confidence, the fact that a minority of male-bodied people of all sorts have an unfortunate tendency to be all manner of pests, pervs and worse. Those women's...
7./ ...arguments are not against trans people. They're against males. Nor does Laura bother to engage with the details of the recent furore about the census question. Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals were delighted when it was decided that the census in Scotland in 2021 will ask..
8./ ..a question about sexual orientation. But we're disturbed that now the National Records Office proposes to add another option 'Other'. We hate to state the obvious but 'Sexual' Orientation is about biological 'Sex'. There are only two biological sexes and therefore ...
9/ ..no 'Other' sexual attraction is possible 'Other' than to one sex or both. The words lesbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual become meaningless if you remove their link to sexual attraction and therefore biological sex. An open campaign to do just this has been ...
10/..underway for some time. Sex is elided into 'gender identity' as if they're the same thing. They're not. And it's not 'inhumane' to argue this. But the consequences of accepting this new deliberate confusion certainly will be. It's why for example some males who have ...
11./ ...made no ostensible change to become a "woman", and are proud of keeping both their penis intact and even their beards (which confusingly many transMEN celebrate as THEIR ultimate sign of masculine gender) take a distinctly inhumane attitude towards real lesbians ...
12./ ..who refuse to consider sleeping with them. But Laura doesn't stoop from her moral high horse to mention these lesbians being harassed and abused online or told to 'suck my ladydick'. It's almost as if that sort of inhumanity doesn't matter. It's almost as...
13./ ...if Laura thinks the feelings of a tiny vocal minority of transwomen must be prioritised over the feelings of women and lesbians in particular. If Scotland had eradicated every last trace of self-loathing sexism and homophobia we might wonder what is driving Laura..
14./..and her contempt for women's concerns and those of lesbians in particular. But it hasn't. The drop down menu of suggestions proposed for the census under 'Other' includes "scoliosexual", "demiromantic" and a panoply of other neologisms so new they're not..
15./..in the dictionary. Laura claims these are based on answers filled in by people during testing of the question. If ordinary citizens of Scotland -as opposed to Stonewall activists with an agenda - actually answered 'demiromantic' and 'scoliosexual' as their sexual..
16./ ..orientation all I can say is I applaud their sense of humour. They must have been having a laugh. Maybe the National Records Office will now share the evidence that proves this either way. It matters because 'scoliosexual' isn't a sexual orientation, it's a fetish...
17./ ...a preference. Ditto most of the other choices it proposes. Not only do silly options like 'demiromantic' open this entire question to ridicule thereby undermining a major achievement of lesbians and gays...they deliberately imply that our orientation is also just a...
18./..a preference or a fetish. So on its first outing (so to speak) in the national census the term 'lesbian and gay" becomes associated with fetishes and with strangeness; what in an earlier age might have been called 'queerness'. We know where these associations lead in time.
19./ .. They lead inexorably to pink triangles, men dangling from cranes in Iranian carparks and women being hacked to death in Ugandan villages. In other words to real inhumanity & not the sort imagined by a columnist who doesn't care enough about issues to listen to both sides.
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