Violet-Elizabeth Bott in the Civil Service
Surely this has to be parody.
Children wanting to transition ‘can ignore parents’, says Civil Service diversity ambassador
Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, a transwoman in the Department for Work and Pensions, compares puberty blockers to taking the contraceptive pill
Saorsa-Amatheia? Cod Irish plus cod Greek? Come on. Not to mention “Tweedale” – which gets us
Violet Tweedale, née Chambers (1862 – 10 December 1936), was a Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist.
Saorsa-Amatheia’s granny no doubt.
So anyway:
Saorsa-Amatheia Tweedale, a transwoman civil servant in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), told colleagues that children who want to transition have the right to ignore their parents’ wishes and compared taking puberty blockers to taking the contraceptive pill.
The official also claimed that the belief that sex is binary is not “the modern scientific view” and that “there are as many genders as there are individuals because we’re all unique individuals”.
Nah we’re not. We think we are, but that’s our vanity. We’re “unique” in some basic literal senses, but over all we’re much of a muchnness. This goon is a nice illustration of how predictable it all is. “I’m unique, I’m fascinating, look at me!!” No, dude, we’ve seen it all before.
Citation needed, Trofim. Who the fuck made him an official anything? This is what happens when people start treating infographics printed in Scientific American as if they were peer reviewed papers. If you’re going to play the “science” card, you better have your references right at hand. I’m guessing he wouldn’y know “science” if it bit him in the ass.
P.S. What woman in the Civil Service would use a photo of herself wearing a black boostier in her professional profile? Also, he seems to be particularly fond of lacey black neck-thingies. He might as well wear a sign saying “Hi, I’m a fetishist!”
https://www.civilservice.lgbt/team/saorsa-amatheia-tweedale/
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/saorsa-amatheia-tweedale-65431a155
Mote on this bloke here: https://gendercriticalwoman.blog/saorsa-amatheia-tweedale/
Oh good lord. That photo.
Also, that first link says he’s a VOLUNTEER. Not a real civil servant then, just a volunteer on their “LGB11ty7” team.
And of course, if there’s a unique gender for each and every person (Ophelia, I believe you once called this approach to ‘gender’ as ‘personality’), then there’s no need to claim someone else’s gender as your own, now is there?
If everybody is a separate gender, does that mean that everybody needs their own pronouns? That’s going to be a lot of pronouns to keep track of. More pronouns than names, in fact, since many people have the same name as other people. (Aside: I have some reason to believe that I am the only one in the world with my exact name. But also, I suspect that is not all that unusual. Or is it?)
My name is unusual, but apparently I share it with a guy who runs a bistro in Scottsdale, Arizona, who appears to be Asian, which I am not. As for my gender, I share it with approximately 4,000,000,000 people.
What’s wrong with celebrating what we all have in common, rather than inventing things that make us unique?
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BUT HOW DO I GET TO BE SPECIAL?!
My name seems unusual, but there is another woman in the US with my name. Plus, she teaches. Crafts, not science, but that’s good because it helps keep us from getting mixed up.
Our DNA is unique, yes. But only a small bit of it. Humans have DNA that is basically like other humans, but some of it varies enough to account for our variations. It probably isn’t much, since we also share 98% of our DNA with apes.
In addition, much of our DNA doesn’t code for anything, and that’s where quite a few differences lie, so it won’t have an impact on our bodies. When you remove that DNA, we are about 60% genetically similar to a banana.
They should get over themselves. Humans aren’t all that unique, let alone each human being unique. There are two sexes, and gender is a human construct. You are born one sex, and remain that sex your whole life. Learn to live with it. Cosplay all you want, but stay out of spaces designated for women.
My name seems to be quite common, although the other women who share it seem to have achieved much greater professional status than I ever managed. Doctors, lawyers; that kind of thing.
But I seem to be the only person in the world who played percussion in a marching band, whilst riding a mobility scooter.
Tish of the Gender-Critical Woman blog has several posts on this person. She says he works for the Department of Work and Pensions in Bradford. I think the ‘volunteer’ bit in the first post linked at #1 must be to do with his role as Chair of the Civil Service LGBT+ network.
My name is stupidly common… so much so that I have to periodically head over to the “citation tracker”-having professional sites and remove a bunch of publications that aren’t mine from their auto-generated lists. Minor annoyance, but would come in handy should I ever need to pad my resume, I guess? It’s also damned near impossible to find me on social media among the literally hundreds of other who share my full name, unless you know exactly where to look. I’m definitely ok with that; there’s something to be said for being able to get lost in a crowd. Huh, maybe I’m not as much of a narcissist as I sometimes worry I might be :-P
I have the misfortune to share my name with Frankie Boyle. I think I should get a pass for wanting to be unique.