Telegraph: The tyranny of the transgender minority has got to be stopped/

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www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/tyranny-transgender-minority-has-got-stopped/

It's behind a paywall so I can't read it, but it sounds promising from the title?

It's a good article (I have mixed feelings about Allison Pearson, but when she gets it right, she tends to nail things). It's a very solid article that gets a large number of the main points covered in a limited space, all delivered with Pearson's characteristic flair for a good turn of phrase.

"Dear God, in what world would putting a 52-year-old rapist, still legally male and in possession of his penis, in a confined space with lots of vulnerable females, be considered a good idea?

"The bat-shit crazy, cowardly, craven, identity lobby-appeasing world in which we now live, ladies and gentlemen. If I’m still allowed to use those offensive, binary terms."

Debunking of suicide stats - tick
Risk of copycat incidents - tick
Sharp rise in incidence of teens going to gender clinics - tick
Entrenching sexist stereotypes and taking normal childhood play as (mistakenly) indicative of gender issues - tick
Silencing of opposition, including attacks on the Rector of Edinburgh University - tick
"See how trans activists have silenced opposition by rebranding “debate” as bullying, and “holding a different opinion” as victimisation."
Draws attention to GRA consultation closing this week - tick
Com Res poll and how a majority of MPs oppose self ID but feel frightened to speak out - and how shocking this state of affairs is - tick
Karen White (with pictures) - tick

"Enter the Government which, in one of its excruciating “We’re not Conservatives, honest!” initiatives, decided it should be possible for adults to change their gender without a doctor’s diagnosis. Under proposed reforms to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA), all you have to do is “self-identify” as a member of the opposite sex, and Bob’s your auntie! A ludicrous and offensive proposition to most Tories, I’m sure – but that has never made Theresa May lose any sleep."

That sounds like an excellent article - is it to soon to hope that the tide is turning?

Wow!

Well, I really feel like the Telegraph has suddenly come on board in the last couple of weeks. There are one or two of their columnists who've made the odd throwaway comment suggesting they were GC (and the cartoonist on their business page has been lampooning the whole Pippa Bunce thing way before it even made it onto the FWR boards here).

But it's only in the last week that I've seen several openly GC articles tackling the issues head-on in their opinion columns.

Enter the Government which, in one of its excruciating “We’re not Conservatives, honest!” initiatives, decided it should be possible for adults to change their gender without a doctor’s diagnosis

They are playing the long game to see who would fall for it - guess what the Labour Party, the Greens, the Lib Dems all went hell for leather to buy into this insanity.

"Enter the Government which, in one of its excruciating “We’re not Conservatives, honest!” initiatives, decided it should be possible for adults to change their gender without a doctor’s diagnosis. Under proposed reforms to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act (GRA), all you have to do is “self-identify” as a member of the opposite sex, and Bob’s your auntie! A ludicrous and offensive proposition

Lol

Thanks for that summary Fermats.

Yes, thanks for that, FermatsTheorem. I'll ring my dad. He gets the Telegraph. He and DM have completed the GRA consultation.

I said I'd ring my dad but he beat me to it and rang me. He was very pleased to see everything we've discussed in his daily paper. I've been banging on about it for ages and he's glad mainstream journalists are finally covering it.

He's cross that the consultation doesn't appear to be available on paper, in Braille or other languages than Welsh and English, and that it hasn't been advertised. As a DH, DF and DGF he feels strongly that women have the right to sex segregated spaces.

Yesterday I found out DB2 has also completed the long online form, despite being dyslexic. It must have taken him ages, the duck. I was very touched. He's a member of the Greens and has been in touch with them to protest the treatment of women in the party and the Challenor debacle.

All my male relatives immediately got the dangers of Self-ID. But then they're decent blokes.