David Leask: The far right are hijacking Scotland’s trans rights row

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"A few trans rights activists are determined to portray all critics of GRR as being hard right. This is spectacularly unfair."
Owen Jones...? 🤔

I was pleased to read that some protestors saw off the homophobe.

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/23312904.david-leask-far-right-hijacking-scotlands-trans-rights-row/

I'm sure he's busy writing a second piece about the paedophiles, sex offenders, flashers, misogynists and extreme porn men who have hitched their wagon to the trans activist movement bringing in into such disrepute? No?

It's so tedious this "only one side has people of disrepute in it" . Just take a look around

I thought the article was supportive of people campaigning against the GRR and queer theory ideology.

'Researchers ... have come some way towards figuring out why some people do not identify with their birth gender. Scientists say being trans is a real thing, not some fad or ideology.'

What is this from, the Ladybird Book of Gender Ideology?

Unevidenced assertions. Weak as piss article.

Not really. He implies the wimz are more or less okay, but alleges that we are in denial about the far right muscling in (realistically their numbers are tiny, while the majority of protesters are women).

Then it wanders into some rewriting of history, where the Nazis were targetting “trans” people (rather than the reality that they were targetting gay people and destroyed a clinic they probably saw as related) and then the baddies (whoever they were) had also allegedly been trying to split the T from LGB for years, ignoring the historical fact that T was only added a few years back.

I think he was trying to “both sides” it but then wandered off into some manly daydream.

So, right, you have an issue where legislation is being proposed, women have some well founded objections but are harassed and abused for making them. The situation rolls on and women are proved right. In the meantime, the far right attach themselves to the women's concerns for their own ends. This is now the fault of the women rather the fault of people who can't listen to women and didn't stop the whole situation from happening in the first place? Shocking.

realistically their numbers are tiny, while the majority of protesters are women

I should clarify that I’m talking about Terf Island here. He seems to be talking about Scotland, but extrapolates worldwide, as if the women of Scotland should worry that Trump and Putin are behind them, right along with Hitler.

He then implies we’re foolish if we dismiss this as a slur. Of course, if you imply those particular people are with us (as he does) then it is simply a slur, because in terms of Scottish politics, they are largely irrelevant.

And of course, while concentrating so heavily on worldwide (and even historical) right-wingers (he forgot Hitler identified as socialist, I expect) he completely misses out the “Beth” Douglas type thugs arraigned behind Nicola Sturgeon. Now they ARE influential and they ARE in Scotland, but somehow the only criticism of transactivists is a single mention of the Decapitate TERFs sign…

Very succinctly put.

And as always, everyone can tell who the biological women are and they're magically treated differently from the transwomen in terms of having their voices listened to. Funny that