It's a good article, especially for those very new to the whole issue. However, I hope Lucy Bannerman and other journalists will continue to investigate and expand on the actual background to this phenomenon.
It's extremely easy to pin all the blame on a single organisation (Stonewall), and I worry there is a lazy narrative developing in media and by commentators that inadvertently gives the impression that the mess we're in is down to one rogue and bad apple called Stonewall. It's not.
Stonewall was an extremely effective vehicle for accelerating the spread of gender identity ideology because it was already well known, well respected and well embedded in various institutions. It's sphere of influence due to gay rights campaigning made it the perfect candidate to switch to gender identity propaganda once same-sex marriage effectively ended its revenue stream.
I'd like to see journalists dig deeper now and look at things like the Denton's document (Bannerman uses the term 'veil of secrecy' which is taken from the Denton's document but makes no mention of it anywhere in the article).
Journalists need to look at the Yogyakarta principles which is being naively adopted by various countries and yet it explicitly calls for abolishing the recording of sex as one of its aims. They need to look into Gendered Intelligence, Press For Change, Beaumont Society, and all the other trans and lgbT orgs that continue to exert influence in the UK, Europe and globally away from the spotlight occupied by Stonewall.
There's been intense lobbying for years in various European / EU institutions to embed gender identity in all kinds of ways so that sex is undermined. There are three main tactics from what I've seen (which is not that different from what takes place here in the UK):
- Explicitly include gender identity and take out sex in policies and legislation.
- If that raises a stink, keep in sex but use vague words to conflate and confuse, like the interchangeable 'gender'.
- If that also raises suspicions, say ok, ok no problem - take out gender identity and gender. Only keep in sex. Everyone is happy. (but if you look at the the tiny, tiny print hidden among all the boring footnotes that accompany policies and legislation, you will see things like 'where sex is stated it includes gender identity'.)
So you see how duplicitous these orgs and activists are? We must never let our guard down and journalists need to start digging deeper now that the can of worms has been opened.
Setting up Stonewall as the bogeyman won't stop the actual rot that's been taking place behind the scenes for decades.