After the welcome news from Scotland that rape victims would be able to pick the sex rather than the gender of the person examining them after an attack - which is to say, they would no longer be subject to intimate examination by men pretending to be women - there was the inevitable backlash from trans activists:
Prominent transgender activists on Twitter responded with fury and despair. Transgender tweeters and their allies are circulating a letter that condemns the amendment as “a ‘dogwhistle’ – a covert signal to anti-trans campaigners” and “transphobic rhetoric” that “is driving the next generation of activists out of the Party and out of the movement.”
Mridul Wadhwa, a male transgender activist who self-identifies as a woman, is one of many who has shared the letter, which he referred to as not “just a call out but a call for action.” Mr Wadhwa, who has no Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), was recently selected as an SNP candidate for next year’s all-women election shortlist. The practice of all-women lists was started to guarantee women a voice in politics, but recent years have seen a rise in men taking seats once set aside for women. Mr Wadhwa secured the position of manager at Forth Valley and Stirling Rape Crisis Centre by concealing his biological sex.
Gary Dunion, a political advisor to several Green Party leaders, claimed the amendment to allow rape victims to choose the sex of those providing their intimate exams “exists purely to terrorise trans people.”
Gregor Murray, a Local Councillor for the North East, Dundee City Council, who requests people “don’t use male pronouns” due to his penchant for lipstick, said the law “threw trans people under the bus,” and asked, “What’s next? I don’t feel safe in this country.”
“How is this about safety? How is this about feminism? […] Just come to my house and kill me – it’s quicker and you can get off,” a trans activist melodramatized after claiming to be “in tears, shaking over the new law.”
Urban farmer and trans activist Jo Edwards said of the amendment: “Hard to be anything but utterly disgusted and depressed by the sheer hate people have inside them. They have truly given up any good part of who they were with it.”
Something of an over-reaction, perhaps. But you have to remember that the suffering of rape victims is as nothing compared to the suffering of trans women denied validation.
Resisters United expressed bewilderment at transgender advocates’ reaction: “I kid you not – they are kicking off about not being able to examine rape victims. Twitter is full of screaming angry tweets about ‘their rights.’ Some are declaring not being able to examine a rape victim makes them ‘feel unsafe.’ How entitled can they get? Isn’t this the most clear woman hate?!”
Transactivists have gone too far, much too far & a backlash is building.
I imagine quite a few LGBs, parents, siblings, & friends of rape victims fully agree with this Act & reject transactivists’ desire to impose on such intimate choices.
Feminists & lesbians publicly say they don’t want actual males to complete with females in sports. There is little vice versa opposition only because, with extremely rare exceptions, actual females cannot successfully compete against males in sports. If Gender self-selection is all that matters, why so? All know why.
Some (most?) Lesbians & gay men reject artificial sex-parts. They want the real thing. The LGB Alliance & Boyz (Gay male rag) question the transgender faith. Boyz magazine, promoting well-developed natural male bodies (pics) & male-only gay parties, was lashed, subdued, & offered an apology, but humans forced into obedience only postpone an increasing desire for rebellion against the whip.
Increasing numbers of parents are seeking help rather than supporting children's self-diagnosis they are trans. Some psychologists are changing their opinions & therapies.
Some minorities have had just grievances but transactivists demand all others adhere to their approved speech, behavior & associations. Toleration is slipping & more are starting to say “STFU!” Non-trans people have tipping points & one-by-one, trans outrages are crossing them yielding, “I’ve had enough!”
This is not a trans attack, but an observation. All “movements” can become too loud & go too far.
Posted by: tex | December 13, 2020 at 07:37 PM
I am delighted that rape victims in Scotland can choose to have an examiner of the sex they prefer, but appalled that certain individuals believe it is their right to examine said victims against their will.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who thinks that a person who has just been raped owes them validation. Absolutely monstrous.
Posted by: Io | December 20, 2020 at 02:09 PM