The Examiner todayThis is the problem people far smarter than me alluded to. The Maya Forstater judgement protects gender critical views as a belief but it doesn't allow us to misgender people with impunity.A prison officer who was sacked for refusing to use wrong pronouns has lost his appeal. Although the judge was satisfied he ‘held a philosophical belief protected by the Equality Act’ (it still jars me that calling a biological male ‘he’ is a ‘philosophical belief’), he was sacked for not complying with the company’s policies on trans prisoners, rather than his beliefs. Surely this is setting a precedent to potentially overturn the Forstater judgment in that, regardless of your ‘beliefs’, if you do not tow the line regarding using wrong-sex pronouns at work, you can still be sacked anyway. In other words, your language can now be compelled. If you want to stay employed, you are forced to reject the evidence of your own eyes and ears.
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It doesn't matter that "there is dispute over the incidence of such occurrence" does it? Women are allowed to say we don't want males in our spaces. And we shouldn't have to explain that this is: because there might be a risk of such an occurrence; for religious reasons; because some women have been subject to abuse; because women deal with messy biology or any of the other multiple reasons. We don't want them there. Those spaces are not for them, they are for us. And if just one single woman doesn't agree to it, it's a no. Because consent isn't transferable.
The general gist centred on a belief that some, if not many, who change their gender from male to female are liable to use entry to facilities like single sex bathrooms to prey on women. There is a dispute over the incidence of any such occurrence, but, as is standard for today’s world, a single or perceived incident can easily be blown up into a phenomenon if it fits neatly into an agenda.
Mick Clifford: Gender discourse pays scant regard to those it most directly impacts
Poor guy is currently being targeted by the likes of Tarquin et al. Yesterday he was interviewed by police on suspicion of ‘malicious communication’.
I’m a very reluctant member as I’m a mum to a disabled daughter and wanted some semblance of backing if tit hit the fan and work were difficult about the flexibility I need. I have been very fortunate that my work are fab and think I will be cancelling my membership soon anyway.
Could you see whether you could change to the Darlington Nurses Union? I don't know whether they accept non Nurses?
Another one here, holds hand up. I self diagnosed about 5 years ago and it was a revelation, immediate lifting of the feeling that I have had all my life of being wrong. I have so obviously been " masking" all of my life and it has got so bad now that I am in my sixties that I collapse with mental exhaustion after the most simple of social occasions with the effort of having to be seen as normal.I (mid 30s) strongly suspect I have some form of it because I have been struggling a lot with how I process things and my interpersonal relationships etc. I've hit a wall mentally, emotionally, and I have always been what I consider a bit quirky but actually I stim a lot when I get home, after a day at work or being outside. Reading about masking rings all the bells, and struggles I had at school and in my personal life make sense in light of the realisation. It's not wanting a label to be cool, I genuinely have struggled and beat myself up over the years. I was well behaved at school so I was ignored. It was a crappy school that had behavioural/respect problems so others' educational needs got swept under the carpet because staff were fighting fire all the time. I got to my final year at uni before I broke down because I was struggling to cope with the course. Only then did I get an assessment for dyslexia that found I had significant issues with my working memory that affected my coursework. This was like 18 years ago.
The problem I find is that especially for girls, is if you are well behaved and do your homework and don't cause trouble your learning difficulties or ADHD or Autism traits are missed. School was so loud amd stressful amd I would come home and basically sit and rock in my bedroom and scratch my scalp to ribbons and it would take ages for my brain to calm after the day. My parents put it down to stress but never got me seen to.
Now, I recognise the same thing when work has been bad. My mind races all the way home and I have to fidget and sing (like bizarre selective vocal tics that embarrass me) and decompress when I get home. But I don't do any of that (except fidget with my hands) at work. It's that I have learned to mask and come home and take time to let it all out.
This past year I've seen videos of folk doing the same and talking about their traits and I'm like this...is me... It feels like a revelation.
But I got through school and I hold down a job so on the one hand I don't want to payfor a private diagnosis when I can 'function', equally I don't want to queue up for an NHS diagnosis because I'd feel guilty. I have always felt guilty about taking up space in life and have poor feelings of self worth, but I also feel very black and white about justice things. Like the whole gender ideology issue matters because my brain hurts that this blatant lie (TWAW) is being inflicted on us.
I may still seek a diagnosis in the future when I can convince myself I deserve to be seen, but I definitely know have something because my whole life experiences point to it and I am so tired about everything.
It actually hurts my very soul and brain when people try to lie about the immutability of sex because we all can see and know it's biological fact.
Also to add I think my Dad is very much on the spectrum as his behaviours and quirks ring many bells. So I reckon it's always been in many families it's just only being understood very recently.
STFU EUAN
A superhero by mocking women? What the actual eff is wrong with people praising these deranged men? There is nothing admirable about walking around with a cushion up your jumper pretending to be pregnant when you’re male. Of course, these creeps thrive on the praise.
I have zero sympathy for surgeons getting sued. This is what happens when you carry out unethical Frankenstein surgery on deluded people with fetishes who clearly haven’t got the mental capacity to understand you cannot change sex.
I totally agree. When you’re high functioning (especially as a woman) you’re so used to masking and just getting on with it, that when you’re diagnosed it’s a surprise as you just thought you were quirky or different.
Surely this is a spoof? Because, all else aside, on what planet would anyone turn up at work wearing that gopping dress?!
I'm all for transplanting uteri* into transwomen so they can get pregnant. But only if they agree to squeeze the bablet out of their winkles. No C-section for you guys.
It's really the same (in my mind anyway) as having to agree with people's religion.
It's a bit more nuanced than that because Religion is literally a belief so it fits into the legislation and you would be protected.
