While Tatchell rages
I hate it that the Tories are better on women’s rights than Labour is.
Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives will change the Equality Act to rewrite the definition of sex and allow organisations to bar transgender women from single-sex spaces, including hospital wards and sports events. The party will make clear that the protected characteristic of sex means biological sex, enabling those who wish to bar male-bodied people from organisations or activities to do so.
Or to put it less pejoratively, enabling women who want organizations and activities just for women to have them. It’s not that women have a deep perverse longing to “bar” men from things, it’s that at some times for some purposes we want women-only orgs and acts. The point is not “no men” but “women only.”
“Whether it is rapists being housed in women’s prisons, or instances of men playing in women’s sports where they have an unfair advantage, it is clear that public authorities and regulatory bodies are confused about what the law says on sex and gender and when to act – often for fear of being accused of transphobia, or not being inclusive,” Badenoch said.
Confused or just plain hell bent on destroying everything women have built up. It’s not all just innocent confusion.
Tatchell of course is all-in with the contempt for women.
The left walked right into this, and they’re so entrenched, we’re seeing a mass exodus to the right among the very youngest cohort of voters and young adults.
There seems to have been a delay of a few years between cause and effect, when the left went all-in on radical gender ideology, and the reaction among the electorate to it.
Well, it’s been a few years, the reaction is starting to manifest among the masses, and I fear the left is about to discover that it’s a MASSIVE rejection, and it will all be too little, too late for them.
And it breaks my heart, becuase there are global, universal, grand matters that the right are woefully short-sighted about. And in general, I just can’t bring myself to shift to the right. Trump and that madness aside, there are fundamental ideological views, and even personality traits, that are preferred by the right over the left, that I just absolutely find to be less informed, less balanced, less agreeable, than those on the left — or at least the left of my principles, if not at all the mess of the real-world left, with its witch-hunts and its pronoun madness…
Strange and scary times…
Arty, I wish there was a like button.
Gender ideology is decidedly illiberal — it’s a religion demanding faith and compliance, and it has no business aligning itself with leftist thought. That’s the trickery of it. Yet people tend to group and categorize things together in inconsistent ways (cognitive dissonance style), which is a problem of ideologies in general. Core liberal values are not compatible with gender ideology. The goalposts haven’t been moved that much.
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This is why I’m done with politics.
Meanwhile Rory and Alistair make the true observation that the Tories think it’ll help them make in roads amongst those who were previously more sympathetic to the SNP. I don’t really like their wishy-washy position on things but at least they don’t lie about it.
In any case I would’ve thought Suella Braverman or that rich guy who basically owns Reform would be Darth Vader…