[quote PurgatoryOfPotholes]This was a thought-provoking response to Dr Mackay a couple of weeks ago.
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And it demonstrates clearly where FM stands on the issue - she dismissively waves away our objections to self-id as a "manufactured culture war". I do agree with her that it's manufactured, but not by us - this has been deliberately created by the proponents of queer and critical theories, which here manifests as the doctrine of gender identity.
Our response to that has reinvigorated the women's rights movement in a way we haven't seen in 50 years. This is a genuine grassroots movement. We don't just have Filia and meetings organised in big assemblies. We have small meetings in village hall after village hall with mostly women asking What is this? Why is this happening? What can we do about it?
There's no funding for that. They each chip in a few pounds to pay for hiring that wee hall. The last one I spoke at had homebaking and lovely cups of tea. There's no payment for the speakers, nor travel costs. We do it anyway, because it matters that much to us.
I'd love to see FM come to one of those small meetings in a Scottish village and hear about the real problems her ideology is causing to little girls and boys, to teenage girls and boys, to women of any age. Hear about working class mums and grans desperately try to find ways to stand up for their kids without any recourse to legal advice, and no money to move them to a school that isn't captured, let alone homeschool them. Hear about councils defunding women's refuges to give the money instead to non-specialist commercial groups, who cannot deliver the service a battered woman and her children need, because they don't understand the effect that domestic abuse has had on her and her kids. Again, these are working class women who cannot book a hotel room to get away. Who cannot pay for their own therapy.