The key is for us to keep up the pressure on the Met, the Mayor, politicians and the media - to ask them if this is something they regard as acceptable. Force them to state a position on the topic. Get them to justify how a violent ex convict out on licence was able to issue such a threat on the streets of London with apparent impunity.
100% agree with you Chaz plus, urgently, our elected representatives in Parliament need to be held to account regarding the special treatment of certain special me. And held to account in public before next years’ general election!
For example asking:
Why would any government retain the Gender Recognition Act given safeguarding impact of allowing hiding previous identities and the GRA enshrining that you can’t even ask about these issues without breaking criminal law?
Surely people massing in public on days of ‘love and rage’ such as this shows that as a society we are moving well past any shame (rightly) about people being gender non-conforming (a good healthy thing!). So by retaining laws that support hiding previous identities like GRA, we are simply allowing bad actors to glom on to historical confidentiality protections that are now unnecessary and amount to a dangerous block to safeguarding.
-plus humans obviously can’t actually change sex anyway, so let’s stop pretending in law that they can which was done to satisfy conservative types who eg don’t believe in same sex marriage. Let’s actually accept gender non-conformity for all that it is- just a departure from sexist stereotypes about how men and women should look or behave which is in and of itself completely harmless.
We also need to challenge MPs on
-the completely unchallenged harassment and threats (including of death and of rape) sent to women who question this (including female MPs who have questioned) which always goes unpunished and in fact women have been in trouble with police for ‘misgendering’
-the unscrutinised medical experimentation on kids by NHS and private doctors which goes unpunished and the TRA charities that proselytise around that to vulnerable young people
-schools that are still promoting gender woo and now with ND kids coming under particular pressure to be kind and believe the woo
-the other examples of male prisoners being still housed in the female prison estate - Isla Bryson is not a one-off
-dangers to women’s physical safety and excellence in women’s sports when men are allowed to train and compete with them ‘as women’ (which is in reality impossible for any man to do)
All of this needs to be urgently addressed democratically so that we can restore safeguarding, give women and girls back their safety, privacy and dignity in public life, give LGB people back their rights to freely be same sex-attracted in peace, and take back captured institutions like EHRC and the NHS and prison services. Women have been raising these issues for decades now and the government has ignored us.
Ultimately the safety, dignity and privacy of the voting public and their kids are only as safe as the laws of the land we have.. and we all know that the least expensive and most democratic way to make any law is in Parliament. (Rather than via expensive and personally demanding crowd-funded litigation through the courts- as excellent and necessary as that has unfortunately been)
We have a general election next year so all political parties need to be coming up with answers to these questions and to understand that many women’s votes will depend on them thinking about these issues properly. Their policies must reflect women’s views and our lived experience of fuck all being done about this.