You’ve seen the footage: Women corralled like livestock while TRAs surround them with noise and violence. The police forming an outer ring - facing outwards to ward off observers. They don’t see any violence
How did we get to the point where a police force riddled with misogynist abusers is acting as lookout for a mob of enraged anti-women activists intent on stopping women speaking?
How did we get to the point where one woman is vilified for the political
beliefs of unrelated men (beliefs she’s condemned) to the point where she is put in mortal danger by a celebratory, self righteous(and murderous) mob?
What comes after rapists in women’s prisons, men masturbating in women’s toilets, women made
to leave jobs and positions, made to leave venues for their own safety, declarations of violent intent spelt out on banners, women surrounded like prey, police looking the other way, police actively supporting the aggressors?
What comes next?
Because that’s where we are now.
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It’s not just historically white countries that fall prey to the lure of exceptionalism. It’s a very human condition, the feeling that you and your people are special.
I read this thread in the knowledge that New Zealand has the highest rate of domestic violence in the developed
world.
1 in 3 women experience intimate partner harm. 1 in 2 for psychological abuse. 1 in 8 men report being victims of family violence. Physical or sexual abuse affects 58% of Māori women over their lifetime - that’s 1 in 2. Add in other forms of violence and that rises to 80%.
Does that sound like the Promised Land to you?
Does that sound like a people with the secret to peace, love and happiness?
In Wales, we’re also not immune to the self-soothing lie that we can be the exception.
Consider this: in every country where #SelfID is now law, TRAs conspire with the authorities and tame journalists to obscure the truth of just how harmful it really is.
Everything from overwriting sex with gender when reporting crimes, to failing to record sex in the first place.
The aim has been a certain plausible deniability: records are uncertain, data misinterpreted, no evidence has been presented, etc.
Who can say how helpful or harmful it has been really?
Better to just celebrate our sparkly progressive ‘newtopia.’
But it won’t be like that here.
The more I consider it, the more convinced I am that it was necessary for the #GenderRecognitionReformBill to pass into law in order for us to kill it dead once and for all.
Think about it: this is gender ideology’s flagship policy. Pushed by the @UN around the world with a
Instructive to see the bile and misinformation directed @beirasplace.
So many times women have been reprimanded, excluded, cancelled and worse for not going along with gender ideology.
“If you don’t like it, tough.
Stay home.”
The last thing they expected was for us to rebuild.
But that’s exactly what we’ve been doing all along:
There really is no way forward but to #RepealTheGRA.
This is a definitive clash between Gender Reassignment otoh, and Sex, Sexuality & Belief oto.
GR, without the practical enforcement of its legal certificate, is little more than personality expressed via gender stereotypes.
But because in reality it’s a psychological condition, it’s inescapably locked into escalation.
I feel like a man (euphoria)
I look like a man (validation)
I’m treated as a man (confirmation)
Treat me like a man (inclusion)
See me as a man (imposition)
Say I’m a man (control)
This escalation set it on a fixed course from its beginning,
to override the Protected Characteristics that would otherwise undermine it.
Sex renders GR a fiction.
Sexuality reveals it as constructed, not innate.
Belief denies it outright.
For real?
Why are some people not mentally ill?
Why so into reality?
Why won’t they say they like porn-style sex? Why don’t they the perform gender stereotypes of the opposite sex?
Why don’t they hate their bodies?
Lesson one: There’s no such thing as cis, only those with a mind/body disconnect, and those without.
However your body looks/whatever your mind feels, it’s still the same mind/body. That’s what makes you YOU.
Lesson two: You are what you are. No surgery in the world changes that
Lesson three: You are being commodified.
Image
identity
expression
euphoria/dysphoria
suicide ideation
how you have sex/never have sex/never will have sex
as you slice & dice yourself into the appropriate shape of your chosen gender
participation in the further monstering of a woman YOU KNOW has received threats and abuse.
The claim is you’ve abused your position to bully and traduce writers who believe sex matters,
not “who don’t agree with [your] support of the trans community.”
Support who you like.
Just don’t pretend it’s compatible with being scrupulously fair and neutral when your support takes the form of interacting with “satirical” attacks on women’s fears of violence, liking and retweeting bullying campaigns, and targeting those women whose views you disagree with.