Is Penny Mordant concerned by the false representation by BBC, Guardian & BBC reporters of the NSPCC position with regards upholding Safeguarding expectations for all adult ambassadors which has enabled the misapprehension that this was based on transphobia?
Will Penny Mordant please read Jame Kirkup's Spectator article which is an accurate summary & consider seriously the question posed at the end?
'Munroe Bergdorf, the NSPCC and the failure of the media'
(extract)
’ll end this miserable tale with a final exam question:
Fact 1: Munroe Bergdorf was sacked by a child safety charity because the charity said she undermined its child safety work. She has since been lionised and feted, treated as a victim of injustice.
Fact 2: Janice Turner sent a single tweet to ask the charity a question about Munroe Bergdorf’s appointment, an appointment the charity has now accepted was inappropriate and mistaken. Janice Turner has since been vilified, abused and defamed.
Question: what are the differences between Munroe Bergdorf and Janice Turner that might explain the different ways in which they have been treated?"
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/06/munroe-bergdorfs-sacking-and-the-failure-of-the-media/
Does Penny Mordant agree that the villification of an award-winning female journalist is unacceptable?
Janice Turner in The Times today raises deeply serious questions which Penny Mordant as a senior cabinet minister should be aware of.
Is Penny Mordant aware & if not why not?
'Children won’t find role models in Playboy
The NSPCC was right to axe Munroe Bergdorf as an ambassador, not for being trans but for not respecting the rules'
concludes:
Women may end up as collateral, but then what’s new? This dismantling of safeguards by extreme trans activists is building a reluctant mass movement. Women are forming new organisations, mustering legal challenges, lobbying politicians. These are not modern Mary Whitehouses but Labour members, Greens, lesbians; progressive, humane women — including trans women — who marched against Section 28, who’d defend to the death rights of trans people to live and work free from harassment and discrimination.
don’t want this fight, just as I don’t want to write about it, given the hideous abuse, and the risk to careers and even physical safety it engenders. They’d rather be running book clubs or the PTA or walking their dogs. But fight they must. Because their inner sirens are screaming.
A guide leader wonders why male-bodied trans teenagers are now allowed to sleep in girls’ tents without parents being told, and is sacked. The NSPCC tells a concerned parent: “Should the child or adult identity as female then they are female and there are no safeguarding concerns.” Note “are” female. Thus sex, a protected characteristic under the Equality Act, is erased, and with it all thought for girls. There is no hope of compromise, perhaps “third spaces” where privacy and identity can be balanced: nothing less than total capitulation will do.
But women see what is happening. We know what battering down our boundaries with insults and threats can allow in. Not, to be clear, from trans people, but potential abusive chancers looking for open doors. Peter Bright, a left-wing US tech writer, argued endlessly with feminists on Twitter about gender self-ID. As a proud trans ally, he decried “TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] fear-mongering about public restrooms” as “fact free drivel”, asking “Is that a great disaster? That a girl sees a penis?” Following an FBI sting in which he believed he was grooming a mother into allowing him to have sex with her children, Bright has confessed to discussing “engaging in sexual activity with minors”.
I read every official report into Jimmy Savile’s abuse in hospitals. What struck me was how he easily bought off the men: gave the porters TVs, took sherry with the consultants. He intimidated the young women. The only people who ever barred his way were older nurses. They could not be fooled. Nor are we now. We will not be bullied into surrendering our safeguards and seeing our liberation in porn."
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/children-won-t-find-role-models-in-playboy-ztfjq0t7t?shareToken=a80ba7e9bcd3850e593572a530746785
threads:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3605120-Munroe-Childline-s-first-LGBT-campaigner
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3611125-AIBU-to-say-that-if-you-work-in-child-protection-you-shouldnt-post-pictures-of-yourself-wanking-at-work-in-fetish-gear
NSPCC statement by CEO Peter Wanless
www.nspcc.org.uk/what-we-do/news-opinion/munroe-bergdorf
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3609218-Hi-from-Safe-Schools-Alliance-UK
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3611447-Potential-Systemic-Safeguarding-failures-in-NSPCC-Childline-illustrated-by-appointment-ending-of-relationship-with-Munroe-Bergdorf-Thread-2