Oh go appropriate yourself
A civil servant was told by a Whitehall investigator that it was inappropriate to say there are two sides to the trans debate.
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On March 11 2021, civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions met online for an International Women’s Day event entitled “What trans is and some of the issues faced”. The call, in which officials were encouraged to submit written questions in an online chat, featured a transgender woman civil servant discussing issues faced by trans people in the UK.
In other words the civil service summoned a man to talk about himself for an International Women’s Day event. As if that’s not insulting enough by itself, what he talked about was his fantasy of being a woman.
One civil servant was subsequently investigated and found guilty of breaching the department’s behaviour policy and rules on harassment for their comments on the call.
Among the remarks made by the civil servant, and branded as “inappropriate comments relating to trans women” by a DWP investigator, were the comments: “One of the things I struggle to understand as a lesbian myself is, how can trans women be lesbian as lesbian is same sex attracted, not gender?”, “I find the term cis very offensive”, “Sport is segregated because there is a difference” and “What if you don’t believe in gender? I don’t”.
So the conversation was about men pretending to be women, and a lesbian was punished for saying what she thought. Happy International Women’s Day!
The civil servant’s comment that “I think IWD should centre [on] women really” was found “to exclude trans women from the relevance of International Women’s Day” and was therefore inappropriate.
Hey! You know what’s inappropriate? Talking about men who cosplay as women on International Women’s Day!
When the civil servant was accused on the call by fellow officials of displaying “Terf [Trans exclusionary radical feminists] behaviour”, the civil servant responded by saying: “STOP BEING INSULTING”.
The investigation found the latter comment to be “not the appropriate manner in which to raise concerns about others behaviour/language as writing in all Caps letters is interpreted as aggressive and shouting when read out”.
Jeezus. I hope she sought and found a much better job with much better people.
Step one: transgress a boundary.
Step two: when called out for your transgression, accuse your accuser of transgressing a boundary.
Step three: profit.
There are two sides to the flat earth debate.
One of them happens to be wrong.
There are no two sides to the question. You suggest there might be two sides, and you’re not even-handed, you’re biased! – the endearingly cynical mayoral aide, Sheldon, from Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities. Full disclosure – I found my copy right next to GWTW on the bookshelf!
It’s going to take a while to root out all the extra-legal trans “rights” activism that’s been insinuated into “codes of conduct” and “style guides.” And of course any cleaning up of these genderist impositions is going to be opposed as “rolling back” of “rights.”
The Civil Service has punished this woman for saying something that is perfectly true: ‘lesbian is same sex attracted, not gender’. In doing so they have abused every lesbian in the country. (Of course there will be a few lesbians who will pretend to agree with them, the better to further their own careers.)
I am angry beyond words.
TWO sides? So misogynist cosplayers, self-mutilating starved girls, and autogynephilic sex-workers are all on the same page, and having the same problem?
There are three major sides to the debate, yet they want to pretend there is unanimity? Presumably while also claiming trans women are the most persecuted etc. Where does the persecution come from if there is no one disagreeing with them?