@jj1968
Do Stonewall look at the responses and ever think, maybe we need to think about this.....
Of course they don't. LGB people have been through what trans people are going through now before. And they know how it ends. All liberation struggles look like this. When those opposed to you realise you are such a threat that they have to move from ignoring you to throwing pretty much every resource they have into attacking you then it's just a matter of time. You've already won.
History shows us the pattern of behaviour of Authoritarism and its an ugly one.
Acts which abuse minority groups are legitimised by sudden redefinations of language and morality, often at odds with what people think and imposed from the top down. Whereever this occurs people should be wary.
Orwell wrote about Winston and his fingers and the inability to speak the truth to power for a reason.
In the redefination of homosexuality by Stonewall you have a very glaring example of this. Ideology being used to twist morality. We have a situation where this redefination now means that couples of the opposite sex now are included in the definition of homosexual by Stonewall. This is at the expense and enables the abuse of same sex attracted people.
When a lesbian can not state she rejects the mere concept of sex with a male organ regardless of who it is attached to and how they identify or what their documentation is, you have a problem. When she is then harassed and discriminated against with threats to remove her source of income for doing this, this slips into willful persecution. When she is accused of being a bigot and transphobic in asserting her sexual orientation (protected in law by the Equality Act) by an organisation with serious soft power which has definitions somewhat at odds with the Equality Act and who are actively campaigning for the abolition of the Equality Act you have a problem. You have a power group subverting the law and using its status to be above the law and trying to pretend its defintions are the law.
When the law is in this situation and you have a group deliberately trying to erase evidence of problems and trying to deny the existence of conflicts of interests and trying to dominate the cultural identity and ability of a minority group to be automonamous and free to represent their own interests, you have oppression.
However you cut it, Stonewall have moved from the role of liberators to persecutor for homosexuals, particularly lesbians. The attacks on the LGB Alliance who are trying to represent their own interests as separate to the T highlight it well. Stonewall do not want a rival group. They dont want another body representing the self interests of group they are trying to control. If Stonewall were bothered about the interests of homosexuals why are they so bothered by homosexuals trying to represent their own interests? Its because its a threat to their monopoly and their soft power ehich undermines the law. It allows homosexuals to speak for themselves and to describe how institutional erase of their issues and identity is being carried out, led by the very people who are supposedly charged with protecting them.
History also tells us that Authoritarians don't like women. And they dont like intellectuals, academics and lawyers. These groups are a threat to them because academic power, a good grasp of language and an understanding of the law means these people are the ones best placed to challenge individuals and organisations which seek to put ideology above all else and at the expense of science, reason and reality. They are therefore the places, people and institutions that authoritarians attack first. Destroy these and the law can be undermined and subverted regardless of what it actually says.
Stonewall are acting in a way which actively legitimises the persecution of lesbians. It redefines language to coercively control and abuse them. It support corrective rape. And removes the ability of lesbians to describe what is happening to them by destroying their culture, controlling their community, attacking any leaders who go against their party line, it is opposed to rival groups forming to self represent instead insisting on a one party monopoly of the field, it redefines lesbians to include people who are not part of their group in an effort to strip power from them.
Nothing about Stonewall is liberal. There is no discussion or debate allowed. Representation must not deviate from proscribed doctrine and ideological line. All others must be crushed before them.
This is not liberation. This is domination. It is not changing hearts and minds. Its trying to criminalise homosexuals who do not want to be forced to consider someone from the opposite sex as a sexual partner.
It uses sexist, racist and homophobic methods to do this. But disguises them with twisted morality and redefinations and labels itself as progressive.
Nope. Ot is corruption of power. It is abuse of those it seeks to represent.
History has shown that power corrupts and corrupts absolutely unless we have checks and balances to unrivalled power. Liberalism is founded on the principles of enabling that through debate and representation. Authoritarianism seeks to remove all debate and diversity of thought and representation.
Nothing about Stonewall is healthy at the moment. It is using its power against 'its own.' This cycle is not unique. It is not progressive.
When Winston can not say how many fingers he has, Orwell is saying beware of those who remove your power to describe reality and remove your ability to speak the truth to power.
Its a lesson that rings through the ages.