Very good post BTL, it's long but worth quoting in full.
"Adam Nielson
9 hrs ago
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That's probably the biggest problem with the whole 'trans-ideology' Kenneth .
As Tom Gordon proves ( and he's usually accurate and factual in his journalism), most folk still have little or no idea what the actual bill and it's implications are - and what it will mean for every woman - old, middle-aged, young, teenagers, and children - in Scotland . By using 'gender' rather than the accurate word - sex - he shows that he's another journalist who still doesn't ' understand (or perhaps care ?) what's going on . What the GRA Bill will do is give the legal right to any man to change his sex, not his gender . Anyone can currently change their gender into anything they want that gender to be .
But as anyone with half a brain knows, no-one can change their physical sex .
It's a biological impossibility, and it always has been - and always will be .
But 5 or more years ago the trans-ideologists started using 'gender' rather than 'sex' in all it's propaganda while it was steadily taking over sections of governments - including ours - across the planet .
Most politicians and ordinary people think 'transgender' (still no legal definition of that word !) means 'transsexual' - the tiny number of folk born with male and female physicality . Invariably this is a very minor 'problem' and can be easily rectified . For some, it;s a serious condition, and those folk need all the help and support we can give them .
I've spoken to far too many people who really do think that's who the GRA bill and trans-ideology is about . It isn't. It's not even close. And it was never meant to be as that 2015 FOI I've referenced on these forums proves . That FOI contained all the emails between a ScotGov department and the Scottish Trans Alliance with regard to a support programme planned to assist (genuine) transsexual people in Scotland. But as soon as the £41K p/a was agreed - for 5 years - the word 'transsexual' suddenly meant 'transgender', and very soon 'gender' became 'sex' . It was all part of the plan, and if anyone doesn't believe that, please read what is now known as 'Dentons' (simply search for 'IGLYO Dentons ' and you'll find it ) . Dentons is a huge international law firm noted for doing excellent pro-bono legal work for good causes, and a few years ago was asked by IGLYO (same search will tell you what that acronym is, and who it targets) to create a 'best practice' blueprint for trans-allies, and how they can undermine democracies without being noticed . Ireland is used as an example .
There, self ID and related policies were introduced into law without the media, the politicians, and the public noticing. The Irish GRA/Self ID bill was simply added to the very popular equal marriage bill at the last minute, and the entire package was voted through . That's the kind of 'best practice ' Harvie is actually talking about . Since then, Ireland and other countries that introduced Self ID etc are having second thoughts as the facts hit home, and the effects of self ID, the removal of all 'gatekeeping', the lowering of age restrictions, and how it was destroying the lives of tens of thousands of young people and children (mostly young women and girls) in those same 'bast practice' countries .
A few stopped their Self ID and related policies in their tracks when the facts appeared .
Genuine science/clinical based independent research was commissioned, and it's unlikely countries like Sweden will be embarking on the same process anytime soon . Scotland is sprinting towards a place that other countries are now retreating from - because our politicians and population are being kept in the dark by poorly informed journalists . The facts are now there. People need to read them .
It's a huge subject, and sadly, it;s probably too late to counter the fantasy science and magical thinking that effectively controls Holyrood .
We are even hearing politicians claim that biological 'sex' is a spiritual thing, and has more to do with the soul (really ??) than science and medicine .
Hopefully, those politicians think that sex = gender, because if they don't, we're heading back to the 15th century .
At the moment over 50,000 young women and girls are queuing up to have their breasts removed in the USA . Some are as young as 12 - and that's where Harvie & Co want Scotland to be .
I could go on for hours. So could many of my friends - including two transwomen (which is what they call themselves - they know they can never be women, and they accept that . I've known them over a decade, and they and other trans folk are totally opposed to self ID and the scrapping of the medical and psychological gatekeeping that prevents most 'gender confused' people making a terrible mistake .
They went through the full two year + process 30 years ago, and they know that we need those checks, the gatekeeping, the assessments ...... because they know what happens if all those things are scrapped, as do the tens of thousands of young ' detransitioners ' who were conned into thinking they were 'trans' when what they really were was suffering from the fairly normal move from child to adult .
Again, that research has now been done (and there's more to follow), and it shows that anything between 70 and 90% of young self-identifying trans-women and girls are still depressed, are still suffering from various psychological conditions, are still suicidal - but now their bodies have been destroyed too, either by radical surgery or dangerous drugs that have shortened their sad lives .
Tom Gordon could redeem himself by finding out what the 'Yogyakarta Principles ' are (and the recent update - YP+10), who signed them, how they were created, and what they would mean for women and children if any country wrote them into its' legal system .
Why ?
Because doing just that is a core policy of the Scottish Greens . Slater/Harvie etc don't mention the YP's at the moment - for obvious reasons , and when it was discovered what the ScotGreens were planning, a few real journalists asked various SNP ministers about them, and whether the ScotGov was sympathetic or even supportive of the Greens plan .
It became disturbingly obvious that almost all of those SNP ministers had no idea what 'The Yogyakarta Principles' were/are, while a couple clumsily waffled and stuttered while not giving an answer (that was around 3 years ago, before the media was effectively 'captured' by the ideology) .
From what we've heard, seen, and read recently those ministers and other politicians are still every bit as clueless .
But looking at all the other self-inflicted disasters the country is dealing with, that cluelessness should surprise no-one."