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Re: Trans rights: a perspective
« Reply #2525 on: September 25, 2025, 04:14:23 PM »
Good old RD. I'm glad he mentioned post-modernism: I've long thought it pernicious. if you follow it consistently, you end up unable to say anything meaningful about anything.
Surely the idea of postmodernism means it cannot be folllowed consistently?

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« Reply #2526 on: September 25, 2025, 04:29:33 PM »
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« Reply #2527 on: September 25, 2025, 04:41:25 PM »
The New Statesman on Your Party and trans rights.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/09/your-partys-existential-spat-over-trans-rights
That women having a right to single sex spaces such as rape crisis centres being portrayed as 'socially conservative' would be laughable, were it not so sad
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« Reply #2528 on: September 25, 2025, 06:15:58 PM »
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Re: Trans rights: a perspective
« Reply #2529 on: September 25, 2025, 07:59:43 PM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gvp18xe17o JKR v Emma Watson.
I think given that Watson signed an open letter not long after Rowling first spoke out on the issue apologising for the hurt Rowling had caused, then it's a little disingenuous now.
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Re: Trans rights: a perspective
« Reply #2530 on: September 26, 2025, 01:34:02 PM »
Julie Bindel on John Boyne and the differences between the UK and France on its attitude to literary 'terfs'


https://unherd.com/2025/09/john-boyne-refuses-to-be-cancelled/

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« Reply #2531 on: September 26, 2025, 03:20:13 PM »
Tell me, anyone who knows, because I've been unable to find out: do parties like the Greens and SNP think any trans woman should be allowed into women-only places, or only those who've had "gender reassignment" surgery?
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« Reply #2532 on: September 26, 2025, 04:15:40 PM »
Tell me, anyone who knows, because I've been unable to find out: do parties like the Greens and SNP think any trans woman should be allowed into women-only places, or only those who've had "gender reassignment" surgery?
So It's a bit more complex than even that. The Greens, of all areas, think that anyone who identifies as female should be allowed into female spaces The Supreme Court was about people who had a gender recognition certificate. This does not require any actual surgery though a commitment to surgery is involved.

The SNP, and the Greens, Scottish Labour, and the Lib Dems tried to introduce self ID as the standard. This requires no surgery, or commitment to surgery.

The SNP has in theory accepted the Supreme Court decision, the Scottish and other Greens see it as transphobic.


I could go on but I suspect there are already questions
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« Reply #2533 on: September 28, 2025, 11:33:53 PM »

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« Reply #2534 on: September 29, 2025, 04:15:20 PM »
Trans "woman" rapes child while a special constable,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjed4v091jwo
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« Reply #2536 on: September 30, 2025, 08:20:31 AM »
"Scottish government says schools must have separate toilets for boys and girls"

The problem with this is that the education secretary can't provide a definition of what that means - see interview in second link.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/29/scottish-government-rules-schools-must-provide-single-sex-toilets-for-children



https://youtu.be/MiC_-Galkgw?si=_sRPoZGhXZEqjV7J

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« Reply #2537 on: October 03, 2025, 12:51:07 PM »
'Women's rights campaigners banned from Green Party conference' - underlines why they will never get my vote.

https://archive.vn/jZRpM

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« Reply #2538 on: October 05, 2025, 07:39:44 PM »

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« Reply #2539 on: October 08, 2025, 12:54:40 PM »
I know it's GB News but this is Marion Calder politely making Andrew Boff look a fool at the Tory Conference


https://youtu.be/LVIovHDcVh0?si=e6l26Ik0TGh7wDzF

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« Reply #2540 on: October 09, 2025, 09:14:37 AM »
JK Rowling and the unfeasibly stupid govt


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« Reply #2541 on: October 09, 2025, 09:37:27 AM »
I know it's GB News but this is Marion Calder politely making Andrew Boff look a fool at the Tory Conference


https://youtu.be/LVIovHDcVh0?si=e6l26Ik0TGh7wDzF
Bof:It's a self-selected group.
Interviewer: no it's not - anyone can go in.
Surely that's the very definition of "self-selected"!
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« Reply #2542 on: October 09, 2025, 11:15:52 AM »
Big Brother has gone full Orwell - Jo Bartosch. Notably this covers the usual fatuous attempt to portray everyone whi thinks that you can't change sex, and thar there should be  single sex spaces, as on the 'far right'.


https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/08/big-brother-has-gone-full-orwell/
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« Reply #2543 on: October 09, 2025, 05:16:47 PM »
You know, it takes a special sort of hypocrisy, to put in place a system which makes women feel guilty for wanting single sex spaces, to denigrate them, and then to charge a substantial amount of money to say they are brave.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25529404.nicola-sturgeons-respect-sandie-peggie-legal-row/

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« Reply #2544 on: October 10, 2025, 02:20:06 PM »
'Trans activists vandalise conference centre' because it is holding a conference on women's rights. So much of the transmovement is just a male rights movement dripping in misogyny.


https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/10/10/218101/
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« Reply #2545 on: October 17, 2025, 06:28:28 PM »

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« Reply #2546 on: October 17, 2025, 06:33:34 PM »
"Free speech blow as national library bans book opposing gender self-ID"


I think this might be a classic Streisand effect


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And they were wrong

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15195891/Workers-threatened-library-bosses-protests-didnt-pull-feminist-book.html

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Re: Trans rights: a perspective
« Reply #2547 on: October 20, 2025, 06:48:06 PM »
A lot of this may be over the top but too many 'left' people like this idea

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/i-just-got-arrested-again

Met Police dropping the probe, and stopping investigating non crime hate incidents. Good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyp1gk0n23o

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« Reply #2548 on: October 21, 2025, 08:46:46 PM »

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« Reply #2549 on: October 24, 2025, 04:01:47 PM »
"It's now a crime in Switzerland to say skeletons can't be trans" - well not quite but still mad and idiotic


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