What about OUR dignity?
Horrible bossy fool gloats at the prospect of getting people in trouble with the law for not lying about what sex ThEy is.
What about the intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment Whittle and people like Whittle are creating for people who refuse to lie about what sex other people are? Why do Whittle and people like Whittle gloat over forcing people to lie about what sex someone is?
Is she seriously a Ph.D? And can’t write any better than that? It was painful to read, not just because of the bogus trans arguments and the threats, but because the writing is awful.
It would cause me immense distress! Well, that would be awful, and clearly a legal issue. Just thinking back about how much ‘immense distress’ I’ve experienced in the workplace over the years. It would be great to think that the full weight of the law could stop anyone from experiencing ‘immense distress’.
Apart from the obvious attempt at bullying dissenters into submission, I think this highlights, once again, the fragility of basing one’s cause entirely on political decisions and legal rulings rather than actual public support: “We have managed to force through this legislation without any meaningful debate, and now you have to do as we tell you, or else!”.
As JK Rowling reminded us in Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenxix (in the ominous words of the increasingly authoritarian Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge), “laws can be changed”. And if the first Trump precidency, the overturning of Roe vs. Wade etc., should have taught us anything at all, it’s that two can play that game.
Maybe Whittle is the one who got Northumberland Police to bully and harass a woman for knowing men are not women.