Bravo Janice Turner!

I have written to my Tory MP asking general questions and specific questions about schools and safeguarding (given that the transgender pressure groups are promoting dangerous safeguarding practices in schools). Although they have not commented they have got me some responses and have promised some more.
If we don't write, they will say 'no one mentions it'. They need to know that we are on the case and expecting credible responses !

Btw OP, you have literally murdered Janice by misgendering her...

Should be "brava" for a female

Perhaps the "activists" at Stonewall do not know that the vast majority of women who transition use the women's rest room and have no intention of going near the men's. Who do they claim to represent?

"I would recommend anyone with a Tory MP to get writing."

I wrote to mine a few months ago, and got a very bland reply from one of his minions about supporting the rights of poor oppressed trans people blah blah blah and, moreover, blah. It didn't answer a single one of my points about domestic violence shelters, sports, changing rooms etc. Really crap. It could equally have come from one of the robots on the Labour front bench.

Another one who's taken out a subscription to The Times on the back of their gender critical supportive stance and the fabulous and brave articles by Janice Turner. I shall be emailing to tell them, too.

Cuts to the heart of the matter! Well said.
This is my question to those who are said to represent us:
Can you mandate belief?
Can you codify into law the idea that some people can mind over matter themselves out of material reality and into the opposite sex, and must be treated accordingly?
It is like transubstantiation. A belief that no one actually believes.
Will you allow people to drug and mutilate children based on this belief that no one believes?

Superb. I feel safer and stronger knowing that intelligent people can see the insanity.

Agreed. A heartfelt thank you Janice from me and my daughters. Shall now subscribe to the Times.

Wow. Wow and Wow again.

Such efficient use of language to provide such clarity of the situation.

Thanks to the pp who suggested emailing the Times to comment - I took out a sub on the back of all the shared links here and I will contact them to let them know that and my appreciation for articles like this.

I might even consider paying full price when the £3 trial ends!

Yes. Me too.

nauticant

I had the same thoughts

Alarm bells started ringing for me when there was talk of using the GoFundMe money for a different purpose. Much of what I've seen from Jennifer James since then has made me uncomfortable.

Feeling a little unnerved now.

Holiday in Portlandia?

Aren't the anarcho-communist antifa kids great? All of the Maoist show trials and Stalinist purges, none of the class analysis and working for the good of the people.

I think of it as the Trans Year Zero!

All of these ill-read, ahistorical idiots should be sat down with Engels and not be allowed back out of their bedrooms until they can recite it verbatim. How would they like THAT authoritarianism!

The room for movement on this debate at the moment is on the conservative side.

This is absolutely true, I think. The Tories have already rolled back from the proposals to remove single sex exceptions from the Equality Act at the same time as amending the GRA.

Plus, the leadership is weak, which gives backbenchers a bigger voice and more room to start making noise if they get a lot of constituent complaints on a particular topic.

I would recommend anyone with a Tory MP to get writing.

I think the crowdfund could force Labour to abandon self-ID for AWS as this is clearly illegal, but the battle is lost to prevent self-ID from being in the manifesto for the next election. Labour would need to lose that to make them think again.

Haven't lost your fucking mind-ism? The entire world is not a social construct-ism?

Postmodernism has a lot to answer for. Maybe someone should go back in time and persuade Foucault to become a fisherman or something, make absolutely sure he never picks up a pen.

On reflection 'I'm a Marxist so I don't believe in work' is a statement comparable to 'I'm a woman so I don't believe in female biology'

Is it time for a new intellectual movement? Radical materialism?

Another good read in today's Times is the column by Matthew Parris. It's critical of the way Brexit is being managed so might not be to everyone's taste. However, I thoroughly enjoyed reading his contempt of Rees-Mogg's behaviour.

Sorry for the derail.

Venice Allan is an idiot who is basking in her 'fame' as much as Lilly Madigan is. And she is doing women no favour

There’s a reason I don’t follow VA on twitter.

I’m glad others are sharing my unease, I was wary of being some kind of ‘traitor’
I did disagree with Venice on twitter but I don’t know enough about the machinations within Labour to be able to argue her points. Julie Bindel’s not having any of it though !

Nobody who saw the Marxist = don't believe in work comment will ever forget it, it was one of those "behold, a living stereotype" moments.

because he was a Marxist he didn't believe in work

Kind of a capitalist position for a Marxist

LOL Angry

To be fair, they are more like Stalin than Marx

Aren't the anarcho-communist antifa kids great? All of the Maoist show trials and Stalinist purges, none of the class analysis and working for the good of the people.

I once saw one say that because he was a Marxist he didn't believe in work and I was like, look, kid, at no point did Marx produce an essay titled "How to guilt trip people who're scared of being called transphobic into paying your rent via e-begging because you're too lazy to get a job".