I no longer understand the world when Beth Upton is the tranny but Sandie Peggie is the one with the drag name. Today in the House of Commons, Rosie Duffield asked, "Does the Minister believe that the NHS should expect biologically female nursing staff to get changed in front of biologically male colleagues who identify as female?" "No," replied Karin Smyth, Minister of State for Secondary Care.
Yet the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention, Ashley Dalton, is of an altogether different view. In any case, Dr Upton professes to be biologically female, and victory at the ongoing employment tribunal would effectively confirm that as the law even if not as the science. Employment law for Great Britain is not devolved. Parliament needs to grasp the nettle.
Imagine being treated by Upton.
ReplyDeleteHe strikes me as unfit to practise, based on sheer lack of knowledge. He had to have it explained to him by a barrister where babies came from.
DeleteAs you've often said, the logic of Margaret Thatcher's self-made man or self-made woman.
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DeleteThe logic actually of the Left’s theory that gender (like all other biological inequalities) is a social construct.
ReplyDeleteThat must have been why it all happened under the Tories, with all the philosophically coherent opposition on the Left, and indeed all the opposition as a whole until several years in.
DeleteUp to the end of 2013 the transvestite community denied any connection with the gay scene. They insisted that the overwhelming majority of them were straight men 'exploring their feminine side'. It was not until early 2014 that 'LGB' suddenly had a 'T' awkwardly stapled onto the end. After that 'trannie' became Hate Speech - we were all expected to be believe that transvestites were women rather than just men in drag.
ReplyDeleteFor the record, a lot of the older people in the community are deeply concerned about what has happened over the last ten years. Many of the developments are extreme - and not altogether healthy!
Not altogether healthy, indeed.
DeleteThis is so true, the right took no interest for years until it saw an opportunity.
ReplyDeleteThey still cannot tell you why they have joined our side. As you say, pure opportunism.
DeleteNotice how they only ever talk about the free speech issue, for the thing itself you need to read Counterfire and the Morning Star.
DeleteToby Young makes a point of the fact that the people for whom the Free Speech Union fights on this are almost all on the Left.
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