1/ What a bitter harvest it is to win the gender wars. What a many better thing it would have been to have been wrong. There’s no great joy to being a veteran and saying “yes, you did chemically castrate gay and autistic youth, we were correct”. How empty this victory is.
2/ To win and see the crushing defeat of political transvestitism, the desire to displace sex in law with a feeling based on clothing. To see your society challenged by a force that sought nothing less than to crumble the 4 walls of reality on the weak. Because that’s what it was
3/ Epistemological, moral and post modern chaos where there was no such thing as a woman other than the men who said they were women was a challenge not just to order, but to sanity or any basic truth claim, it was chaos incarnate. And chaos is a jungle. And Jungles…….
4/ Well, a jungle favours the strong. That’s why it’s called the law of the jungle. So it was never the professors theorising away biological sex who were the female prisoners sharing cells with 6 foot male rapists. Never the prom queens or handsome jocks at gender clinics.
5/ It was always the weak and the vulnerable to paid the tab for luxury beliefs. It was always those on the breadline with the courage to put everything on the line who faced cancellation, silencing and the calumny of being called full of hatred when they only wanted to raise the alarm.
6/ It’s not over, but it’s over. For Women Scotland is the end of the political project and we now have a Supreme Court judgment, our opponents have a date with reality they can adjourn as much as they like, but these are stays of execution and putting off the inevitable.
7/ The problem with being in fashion is things go out of fashion. Political transvestism’s moment has passed. It was a grim a fraught moment that inverted the purposes of every organisation meant to protect us. The gay ones became homophobic…
8/ We’ll laugh one day at Nancy Kelley of Stonewall saying lesbians were sexual racists for not sleeping with men. We’ll laugh at Peter Tacthell hooking into this compulsory bisexuality programme as he sought to resuscitate his relevance.
9/ We’ll look aghast at a gay rights movement and landscape much diminished and wonder how this might Ozymandias came to be such a wreck and how it preached the destruction of its own next generation.
10/ Yet we have won. Or more or less won. Or won enough. But the victory condition was never a sweet one. The victory condition was to persuade the world this was a crime against humanity. And so we reap this victory. But we reap a bitter harvest.
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