They risk punishment
The Times reports that employers punish employees who fail to parrot the dogma about trans people, which means that employers are punishing their employees for failing to tell stupid lies. That’s not a fair or reasonable setup.
Dozens of women have faced disciplinary action at work for offences such as saying JK Rowling is not transphobic, asking a question during equality training or requesting female-only lavatories, according to 40 campaigners on free speech.
In a letter to The Sunday Times, the campaigners say that the employers of a quarter of UK workers have signed up to a Diversity Champions scheme run by the LGBT charity Stonewall. It means if people question what the campaigners refer to as “Stonewall law” — that “trans women are women; trans men are men” — they risk punishment.
Has this ever been the case when it’s a matter of hostile or contemptuous remarks to or about women?
After wading through bullshit dogma up to your neck, you come to a line signposted ‘The New Frontier.’ Beyond that lie vast stretches of bullshit further than the eye can see. And far off in the distance, visible only through powerful telescopes and only to those who have survivied the crossing, is a sign which says ‘No bullshit tolerated beyond this point. Welcome to the only future worth having.’
Maybe Stonewall used to be an LGB charity, and perhaps for a time, an LGBT charity, but it is strictly T nowadays. The LGB provided the sheep’s clothing under which the T wolves infiltrated the flock, but LGB have all been eaten, and nothing of the original flock remains. There are only T wolves left.
No, not wolves. They are trans sheep.
In more ways than one.
I am very curious to see Hartlepool exit poll data, with Labour losing a seat unessentially losable since WW2. The priorities of the urban left don’t seem to be just failing to resonate with the traditional base, but outright alienating them. In particular, I am curious to see if women are drifting elsewhere, or more likely, just not showing up.
Naif:
I think there are several reasons for Labour’s many defeats over the last few days. I don’t know whether its complete abandonment of women is one of those reasons, but a lot of the women I follow on social media (not an unbiased sample) said they wouldn’t/didn’t vote Labour because of it.
I myself didn’t vote Labour in our various local elections because of it.
I can tell you that much of the same policy is in effect where I work in Seattle. We are to use gender neutral pronouns, and if we “misgender” we must immediately say we are sorry and correct ourselves. It is claimed that “misgendering” causes trans persons great distress, that it will contribute to them waxing suicidal, something I am a bit skeptical of. Anyway, these things must be done or I’ll be fired. The personnel policy on this is pages long and adopts a tone of urgency combined with finger wagging and warning.
One potential horror of this is it will sooner or later bring right-wing interests in with their agenda to the supreme court. Terrible that Christopher Hitchens is so very, very late.