By way of political party balance I also recommend this from 'The Conservative Woman', Ive just been reading it:
'The Tories let in trans mania – now they must drive it out'
By Caroline ffiske
April 6, 2020
(extract)
LAST week the Mail on Sunday reported that the new Minister for Women, Baroness Berridge, has confirmed that male-bodied people, even if they identify as ‘trans’, can be banned from women’s toilets and changing rooms. Presumably she would extend the same principle to women’s other single-sex spaces, services and activities.
Significantly, she states that the law is already clear on this matter. The Equalities Act does provide that transgender people can be excluded from (opposite-sex) single-sex facilities if service providers have a legitimate reason for doing so. The problem is that the trans lobby has relentlessly pressurised public entities into worrying that the necessary ‘legitimate reasons’ for exclusion do not exist. The lobby has aggressively promoted the narrative that excluding trans people from opposite-sex facilities amounts to discrimination. Our public sector has generally responded by, often enthusiastically, adopting this interpretation.
According to the Mail, Berridge is working with the Minister for Equalities and Women, Liz Truss, to push No 10 to take a stronger stance to protect women’s rights, but they are being overruled by Boris Johnson’s aide Dominic Cummings. Apparently ‘Downing Street just wants the whole subject to go away’. Never was there such a naive sentiment. The whole subject can’t go away because the trans lobby has already been so successful. Now, if Johnson, Cummings, Berridge, Truss do nothing, the damage that the trans lobby has already done will remain in place. This damage includes: risks to the safety, dignity, privacy of women; threats to our freedom of speech; corrosion of our trust in the police; the undermining of our language; the corruption of science – even as it is taught in schools – and the invasive bullying of young gays and lesbians. Most tragic of all is the harm being done to vulnerable young people who are persuaded that they were born into the wrong body and that a lifetime of cross-sex hormones, possible surgery and potential sterilisation is the right course for them.
The rest of this article documents how our public sector and public institutions are promoting trans ideology, such that there is no chance of the ‘whole subject going away’. (continues)
conservativewoman.co.uk/the-tories-let-in-trans-mania-now-they-must-drive-it-out/