It's what we all knew.
When Amendment 97ZA, which stated that TW prisoners should only have the option of being housed in the male estate, or a separate specialist unit with no access to female prisoners, went before the Lords there was outrage & it fell. 1/?
When Amendment 97ZA, which stated that TW prisoners should only have the option of being housed in the male estate, or a separate specialist unit with no access to female prisoners, went before the Lords there was outrage & it fell. 1/?
We were told that these males had to have access to the female estate. It's not enough that they be safe & secure. Denying these males the chance to be housed with women would risk violating their human rights.
That's what those of us with longevity here always knew. 2/?
That's what those of us with longevity here always knew. 2/?
Although the arguments are often couched using increasingly irrational and unevidenced claims about safety, at bottom it is not about safety. It is about the demand to have what women have, a demand which has been twisted into a 'human right' with the threat of legal action 3/?
supporting it.
And now we have another example of what we always knew in the form of @jk_rowling initiative for women in Scotland. This takes NOTHING away from existing provision in Scotland. The set of people able to use those services on Friday last week is exactly the same 4/?
And now we have another example of what we always knew in the form of @jk_rowling initiative for women in Scotland. This takes NOTHING away from existing provision in Scotland. The set of people able to use those services on Friday last week is exactly the same 4/?
as the set of people able to use those services on Monday this week. Nothing has been taken away. Those services - whether you describe them as single-sex, single-gender, mixed-sex, inclusive, whatever - remain unaltered.
There's just something new now. 5/?
There's just something new now. 5/?
And this is the worst crime of all. Logically this makes no sense. But logic has never been at the heart of this, which is why, no matter how they are dressed up, this always comes back to demands. Demands that are increasingly made with anger & threats of violence. 6/?
The message, which we all knew, is clear: women may have nothing for themselves. When 'be kind' fails. When twisting the law to force 'inclusion' fails. When academic sophistry fails. When legal threats fail. When threats to funding fail. 7/?
When all this fails the last 'no' we have is to exclude ourselves from the mess that exists & create anew. This is what @jk_rowling has done. And this is explains the rage: because this is a clear statement that she, and we, cannot be controlled & will not submit. 8/?
A woman who will not submit is the greatest threat of all. Be that woman. In small ways or in large. Quietly or loudly. Even if, right now, it can only be in your thoughts. Be that woman. 9/9
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