Note the politics of Totalitarian this case presents.
Who has the power to absolutely state 'reality' without doubt and without challenge, whilst who couches language in a way that is uncertain and lacking in the reference of their own lived experience?
That a man can state he is biologically female, and women can not be certain of their sex is a dynamic which shows where power comes from and who is in control.
That a woman can not state the truth and all avenues to stating the truth are closed to her by bureaucratic hierarchy and those loyal to the cause, reinforces the structure of power.
The aim of Totalitarianism is not to convince you of an argument. It is to remove your ability to tell the truth and to render you to a state whereby you feel powerless.
The screeching we currently hear with the threats and the lack of coherent counterargument is a feature of the collapse of the totalitarian control of the narrative. We no longer fear speaking out, so they feel they must try and regain control through other methods of control.
This is why there are running themes of coercion and blackmail and guilt that run through trans activism like a stick of rock. The prospect of power and control IS the attraction.
The pattern of replacing competence with loyalty is not a flaw. It is a desired outcome.
The NHS has been ripe for this, with a defensive culture to protect those at the time and to prevent challenges from the public to expose all manner of scandals.
If you understand the dynamics of what has happened at Fife and elsewhere, it makes so much more sense. The idea that we were arguing an equal case where 'proof' was ever relevant or valued is the mistake. It was never about proving that you could change sex. It was always about transactivists had power and control over you. Those who thought they could prove their value through loyalty, are dispensable as individuals. They cease to have value if they are caught out. No one cares to save them as they have become liabilities and threats to the cause and maintaining control.
The 'most vulnerable in society's are anything but.
We are witnessing this in real time.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt
Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
True goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but organization of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
Hannah Arendt
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.
Hannah Arendt
The effectiveness of this kind of propaganda demonstrates one of the chief characteristics of modern masses. They do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience; they do not trust their eyes and ears but only their imaginations, which may be caught by anything that is at once universal and consistent in itself. What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism always insists that its own people is surrounded by “a world of enemies,” “one against all,” that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism