Because Labour are to blame for the position that we find ourselves in with the whole gender thing. Not only did they introduce it in 2004 but they then made matters even worse by amending it so that you could legally change sex and falsify your birth certificate, thereby installing a legal falsehood into UK law.
This was not a wise or acceptable thing to do, it was reckless and ill thought, and has led to the truly disturbing and absurd scenario of a woman who is raped or assaulted by a man having to take an oath in court to tell the truth and then being immediately ordered to collude in a lie by calling her attacker “she”. This makes a mockery of the solemnity and majesty of the law, and that matters. It is not just or fair and in fact favours the perpetrator over the victim.
It has also led to men escaping the appropriate punishment for rape, only a man can be convicted of a rape charge in Scotland as rape is a sex specific crime here, it can only apply to a man as only a man has a penis, the weapon of rape.
this is not justice, it is in fact a disgrace.
Labour has said that it’s proud of bringing in these changes to the law, they have also said that they will pursue self id. The Labour Party in Scotland did vote with the SNP and the Greens for self id, and also for the dreadful and anti democratic Hate Crime Act with which they had hoped to silence opposition. Thankfully JK Rowling scuppered that on day one. The Scottish Tory Party voted against both.
Women and children have been raped and assaulted by trans women the length and breadth of the Uk and also in other countries, our language has been erased and our concerns ridiculed. We have been vilified for perfectly legal views shared by the majority of the population and called Nazis and fascist simply for asking perfectly reasonable questions. Women like JK Rowling have been threatened with rape and murder simply for stating that they will not accept that a man can be a woman.
Yes, the Tories have just let things run their course, many of them were captured too, stupid Maria Miller and Liz Truss among others, but they have seemingly come to their senses. They have realised that most of the population don’t agree with this, as poll after poll in many countries show, and they have started to turn it around. That’s why I may vote for them if I can’t find an alternative, this is the most important issue in living memory because it’s about truth and basic reality. It’s also about not forcing people to comply with a pseudo religious ideology that they don’t agree with and that goes against freedom of belief. Everyone is free to believe what they like, but they are not free to demand that I believe it too.
We have never had a Stasi or a KGB in the UK and yet because the government are trying to stifle opposition on this contentious issue, that most of the population are dead against, we now have draconian hate crime laws in Scotland that are reminiscent of East Germany before the wall came down. Labour have said that they will also strengthen the Hate Crime laws in England too by the way. This stuff matters, it’s not a fringe issue, it goes right to the heart of who we are as a society, are we a truly secular, free and democratic country, or not?