Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on The symbols of what did you say?

From where I sit, it is the women who support this legislation who find themselves voiceless:…

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. You must be sitting somewhere with your head up your ass because I can see FROM A WHOLE FUCKING OCEAN AWAY that women who have tried to question or slow down this fait accomplit have been demonized, vilified, threatened and, yes, silenced.

safe in the knowledge that the bill had a parliamentary majority. It would pass, and so too in time would the fractious debate.

What fractious debate? Your side was all “NO DEBATE!” You couldn’t afford full and open discussion. Trans activism never can. If you think the “fractious debate” is going to end with the passage of this bill, I’m afraid you’re in for a disappointment. Disagreement and resistance will only intensify as its enforcement takes a greater toll on more women and girls. I get the feeling that you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.

…I feel that there is a need to call out the populist tactics…

Way to simultaneously poison the well and step around the fact that, if described in plain, honest language, most people would likely oppose this bill.

…because of the actions of predatory men pretending to be something they are not…

Well the supposedly “non-predatory men”, TiMs, are also pretending to be something they’re not. They’re all lying about who they are, so how can any of them be trusted with their intentions? Short answer, they can’t. Refusal to swallow the fundamental untruth of “gender identity” makes it impossible to go along with any of this. You’re not going to change many minds, so you’ll be forced to steamroll over any resistance. And resistance there will be. You’ll be seeing more channeling of Sufragette Power than you’ve ever seen before. See point above about the end of “fracious debate.”

This bill is one of the most consulted upon in Scottish parliamentary history.

The amount of consultation says nothing about its quality or breadth. For a movement banging on continuously about “inclusion,” It’s funny how many women’s voices were excluded.

Those opposed to it do not want delays to improve it, they want to use them to dilute and defeat it.

Only if the dilution were to a homeopathic level of non-existence. Defeat is the only rational choice for a bill that cotravenes reality. You cannot legislate the impossible; the attempt itself is dangerously corrosive to the legitimacy, authority, and respect of any institution that dares try.