Yesterday I cried with relief at the judgement, I’ve watched in horror as time and time again women have been silenced, been thrown off social media platforms (inc this one), lost hard earned careers, been threatened with rape and death, seen people harassed by men out of tape support centres, all for wanting a single sex space for their privacy, dignity and safety. I felt unsafe using the gym changing rooms because next to the sign saying no boys over 8 there was a sign effectively saying but men are welcome if they wear a frock. We’ve watched in horror as children (many autistic)have been targeted on line and, yes, in schools to take drugs and go on the slippery slope to surgery. I watched as parents lose their kids to a cult.
I do feel sorry for many Transpeople, they’ve been sold a lie, the affirmation of their body dysmorphia has led them to a false reality, heck if everyone was telling Barry he could become Brenda and would magically become a woman with access to all the same spaces and if anyone challenged him they would feel the full wrath of stonewall justice, why wouldn’t he believe it?
I appreciate, for many trans people, yesterdays ruling after years of everything telling them, the courts, their employers, the media, schools, clubs yes Barry, you’re Brenda anyone saying otherwise is scum, to find out that narrative was a tower of cards built on sand must be a shock and frightening. But now the way is open to provide real support, both practical eg 3rd spaces and psychological (no Barry you can’t be a woman, let’s examine what that means for you) These people do need society’s support, but true support is based on reality not baseless affirmation.
But the most important thing is, we must come to understand how we have got here, how have so many people been persuaded that black is white, that one of the most fundamental identification classifications in existence is something other than what it is, binary and immutable. If we can be persuaded a man can become a woman and anyone arguing against this doctrine is effectively excommunicated we can be persuaded of anything.
We need to analyse how people like stonewall were dictating what people could say, even when what they were being forced to say was so far removed from common sense, often by just being told to “be kind”, we need to understand the silencing, the MO of these types of people. How have entire industries, academic, professional and pharmaceutical been built on this lie. How have people been taken in by a cult and so easily rejected reality?
We need to be mindful where similar things are happening within our society, where obvious issues are being denied, where people are being silenced for raising valid concerns. The trans issue is just the start.
We need to encourage independent thought, we need to relearn how to listen and interact with a variety of view points. We need to reject things which seek to make us into unquestioning sheep. AI, social media (with over zealous mods who will happily silence a person for speaking the truth), MSM, employment laws, our justice system. But most of all we need to look at who our educators are, we need to make sure our young people are equipped to deal with a world which strives to make them more like computers, a world where true intellectual exploration is discouraged and thoughts come pre packaged and pre approved.