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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Where will identity politics and intersectionality go next?

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MarshmallowSnowDon · 03/01/2019 20:00

So I can see how feminism and the victimhood/oppression narrative within it lead to the recent trans rights movement, and I can see why women would been seen to be more oppressed than men but not as oppressed as trans people. I believe that under this type of thinking (group rights as opposed to individual rights) the rights of the most oppressed are protected first so a trans women’s right to use a female changing room (under this way of thinking) would trump a women’s right not to share a female only space with someone with a penis, but where does this go next? I don’t know but I predict that in 2019 we will see the BAME pay gap (where it exists) take more prominence in the media. And maybe even some white women and men in the BBC taking pay cuts if it turns out that people of colour are being paid less than them. A relative of mine working in the public sector has already been told she can’t do a management training course because it is reserved for BAME people. I imagine this will become more common in the effort to equalise outcomes across multiple groups now that having equality of outcome and not equality of opportunity has become firmly established as a goal in the mind of the establishment. What do you think 2019 will bring?

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MarshmallowSnowDon · 06/01/2019 21:58

Direct quote from the education section of the UKIP manifesto:

“UKIP opposes gender confusion ideologies and the implementation of compulsory LGBT-inclusive relationships education in primary schools, due to be introduced from September 2019.”
www.ukip.org/ukip-manifesto-item.php?cat_id=8

It doesn’t sound to me like they are onboard with the modern self-ID trans rights movement at all if they are using the phrase “gender confusion ideologies”. None of the other mainstream parties would use words like that due to the risk of offending trans people. I honestly don’t think they have any sympathy for men who claim they are women at all, so I can’t see them allowing a sex offender who is legally a man to serve their sentence in a female only prison just because they identify as a women. Why not ask Gerard Batten the question on Twitter?

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