If a woman you know
He’s really not bright.
India Willoughby explains that he doesn’t want to be in an all-male ward in a hospital.
Before offering your opinion on the latest bit of culture-war scaremongering from the Tories on trans people, consider this. How would you feel if a woman you know, perhaps vulnerable, was forced into being treated in an all-male ward at a hospital. How would that woman feel?
Notice anything there? He asks how “you” would feel if a woman you know blah blah – making it startlingly clear that he’s addressing men only, which makes it startlingly clear that he doesn’t even see women as people. A generic “you” reading this piece of his must be a man, because…women don’t read? I guess?
But second and more crucial, of course, is the idiocy of saying “women don’t want to be in an all-male ward therefore men like me should be in women’s wards.” He points out what women want only for the sake of claiming it applies to him, a man.
Terrified, most likely. And that is exactly how I would feel in the same situation.
But you’re a man.
My instincts are the same as most women – I just happen to be trans.
His “instincts” are not the same as most women’s. He just says they are. And he doesn’t “just happen” to be trans; he decided to label himself trans.
He goes on and on in this vein, utterly oblivious to the way he’s underlining the reasons he should not be anywhere near a women’s ward in a hospital.
Let me be clear. I would never, ever go on an all-male hospital ward. I’d rather die at the scene of my injury or illness than be placed on one.
Fine; do that. Meanwhile: notice that actual women also don’t want to be confined with men while helpless and stop claiming that you should be allowed to intrude on them.
The differentiation says it all.
Aren’t the clinics that do these hormone treatments, cosmetic surgeries, and mutilations trans-only spaces? You could try there Jonny, if you’re not just being dramatic.
Willy makes it clear that, to him, women are just fetish objects. Of course TIMs can’t go in women-only spaces; then they wouldn’t be women-only anymore, and that remains important for the womany-type woman, no matter what Willy thinks. In what would apparently be a surprise to him, women don’t need to ask men to say for them whether it would be scary for them to be an all-male ward. They can say for themselves, and they do: no willies!
Willy says he will never go to an English hospital again. Fine; let him go to a German one. He can be in the ward marked for “Her.”
More or less terrified than a woman, perhaps vulnerable, who was forced into being treated in an all-India-Willoughbies ward at a hospital?
Perhaps he could try the nearest veterinary hospital; if the trans-dogs and trans-cats will have his company and don’t kicki up a fuss.
I’m getting a severe case of déjà vu here.
Is Willyboy repeating, verbatim, his tweets from a few weeks ago?
Or should that be “Herr”?
tigger, that’s the same thing I thought. This is definitely something we’ve heard before.
Tigger, #5: pretty much, only in extended form for an article in the Metro – that prestigious daily publication given away free on public transport.
Thanks, AoS. I remember reading the exact words being shared around Fæcesbork (I have a lot of friends in the UK), and joining in the comment threads. I hadn’t registered that it was an article for a ‘newspaper’ (are there any genuine examples of those left, I wonder?) because it was written exactly as badly as a series of Tweets.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been the only woman on a ward full of men. Jonathan is obviously highly privileged if he genuinely believes that he would rather die than be excluded from women’s wards. Dying isn’t as easy as he appears to think that it is; we have a strong instinct to stay alive.