All transwomen are to be moved out of Scottish female prisons today. 🙌🏻

Thanks for posting that. Excellent article.

Exactly so. We must never, ever forget that back in the 1960s and 70s when all sorts of social changes were being pushed through, many of them making life better, there were other ideas under serious consideration that either did make life worse for many or came perilously close to it.

First example: 'free love' - sex outside marriage no longer regarded as shameful. A good thing on the whole, but it made a lot of men and boys feel even more entitled than they already did to sex from others who were not always willing or able to consent.

Second example: Paedophile Information Exchange being taken very seriously indeed by some progressive organisations run by people so open-minded their brains had fallen out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26352378

The Paedophile Information Exchange was affiliated to the National Council for Civil Liberties - now Liberty - in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But how did pro-paedophile campaigners operate so openly?
A gay rights conference backs a motion in favour of paedophilia. The story is written up by a national newspaper as "Child-lovers win fight for role in Gay Lib".
It sounds like a nightmarish plotline from dystopian fiction. But this happened in the UK. The conference took place in Sheffield and the newspaper was the Guardian. The year was 1975.

...PIE was formed in 1974. It campaigned for "children's sexuality". It wanted the government to axe or lower the age of consent. It offered support to adults "in legal difficulties concerning sexual acts with consenting 'under age' partners". The real aim was to normalise sex with children.
Journalist Christian Wolmar remembers their tactics. "They didn't emphasise that this was 50-year-old men wanting to have sex with five-year-olds. They presented it as the sexual liberation of children, that children should have the right to sex," he says.

The Paedophile Information Exchange was affiliated to the National Council for Civil Liberties - now Liberty - in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But how did pro-paedophile campaigners operate so openly?
A gay rights conference backs a motion in favour of paedophilia. The story is written up by a national newspaper as "Child-lovers win fight for role in Gay Lib".
It sounds like a nightmarish plotline from dystopian fiction. But this happened in the UK. The conference took place in Sheffield and the newspaper was the Guardian. The year was 1975.

...PIE was formed in 1974. It campaigned for "children's sexuality". It wanted the government to axe or lower the age of consent. It offered support to adults "in legal difficulties concerning sexual acts with consenting 'under age' partners". The real aim was to normalise sex with children.
Journalist Christian Wolmar remembers their tactics. "They didn't emphasise that this was 50-year-old men wanting to have sex with five-year-olds. They presented it as the sexual liberation of children, that children should have the right to sex," he says.

Unbelievable, but some people would have minor attracted individuals within the whole LGBTQ+ alphabet soup

Exactly so. We must never, ever forget that back in the 1960s and 70s when all sorts of social changes were being pushed through, many of them making life better, there were other ideas under serious consideration that either did make life worse for many or came perilously close to it.

First example: 'free love' - sex outside marriage no longer regarded as shameful. A good thing on the whole, but it made a lot of men and boys feel even more entitled than they already did to sex from others who were not always willing or able to consent.

Second example: Paedophile Information Exchange being taken very seriously indeed by some progressive organisations run by people so open-minded their brains had fallen out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26352378

The Paedophile Information Exchange was affiliated to the National Council for Civil Liberties - now Liberty - in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But how did pro-paedophile campaigners operate so openly?
A gay rights conference backs a motion in favour of paedophilia. The story is written up by a national newspaper as "Child-lovers win fight for role in Gay Lib".
It sounds like a nightmarish plotline from dystopian fiction. But this happened in the UK. The conference took place in Sheffield and the newspaper was the Guardian. The year was 1975.

...PIE was formed in 1974. It campaigned for "children's sexuality". It wanted the government to axe or lower the age of consent. It offered support to adults "in legal difficulties concerning sexual acts with consenting 'under age' partners". The real aim was to normalise sex with children.
Journalist Christian Wolmar remembers their tactics. "They didn't emphasise that this was 50-year-old men wanting to have sex with five-year-olds. They presented it as the sexual liberation of children, that children should have the right to sex," he says.

This. There was some blithering idiot on here the other day who thought ( or claimed to think) that we only had separate male and female prisons for reasons of prudery!
Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to lock up male criminals with women is either thick or sick. Or possibly both.

Not all progress is positive. That's the myth.
Sometimes it's better to go back and try again with a different idea
Or accept that the way it was before was actually better, and was that way for a reason.
And some "progress" is actually a regression.

Try to be a little more flexible in your thinking.

I use it and similar put downs, similar to others he's used as well. He's showing his age, he's just another middle aged bloke telling woman what they must accept.

Ooh, 'pipe down'!

Is that from the chapter titled 'for when those silly bitches just won't shut up'?

We won't wheesht. We're known for it.

Soz.

Dear.

Elizabeth Fry was on the five pound note for years and too many people don’t even know what she did for women, and somehow think women’s prisons are just a whim of an idea that can be reversed on an equal whim.

So you are celebrating society moving backwards? The comments here are ridiculous.

Have any of you wondered why trans women were moved to women’s prisons in the first place? It wasn’t because people campaigned for it or any ‘trans rights’. It was because the prison guards were sick of having to clean up the mess after they were attacked constantly. All this does is create a bigger problem in the prison population for woefully under staffed and under paid prison guards.

Alex Massie's comment in the Times:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/c081c115-d98a-4872-960d-1530bb1eb98c?shareToken=a9dfc71db225d3c64e04a897403f0ba6&ver=article

Never underestimate the power of a humiliation fetish!

Never underestimate the power of a humiliation fetish!

Some people might say spending an evening flinging ineffective insults at women on the internet is a wasted evening.

Ah, now, does that make you a cross between a dowager duchess and the banshee? How does the frothing fit in?

Alex Massie's comment in the Times:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/c081c115-d98a-4872-960d-1530bb1eb98c?shareToken=a9dfc71db225d3c64e04a897403f0ba6&ver=article