@MarkRogers55808@PepcMax1969@SandraWeeden I used a cheque just a few months ago...it was the only form of payment my local council would take for a licence! Had to dig around to find the old cheque book 😅
A large number of people (mostly men, in my experience) who're sympathetic to some of women's opposition to gender identity ideology, nevertheless think it's cruel to point out that a trans-identified man looks like a man, and unkind not to 'respect' his pronouns. They think these are 'compromises' women should be prepared to make. 'What does it matter?' they say. 'How does it hurt you?'
The psychological effects of being coerced, manipulated or pressured into doing something that is against a person's own beliefs or values are well known. 'Moral injury' occurs when a person is forced to betray deep-held convictions, or stand in silence while those convictions are being betrayed. The individual feels transgressed at a core level. The inevitable consequences are stress, anxiety and anger.
Workplaces across the west have imposed a Kafkaesque situation on women. A belief system most people consider nonsensical, but which, in elite circles, has become almost a religion, has been imposed from on high. Women are being persecuted and punished for not pretending they think men can change sex. The policing of pronouns, and the harassment and shaming of women who won't pretend they can't recognise a man when they see one, is merely the tip of genderism's gigantic, threatening iceberg.
Any man who seeks to force women to play along with the fantasy that he's female is engaging in a typically male power play. At worst, he will suffer narcissistic injury from her non-compliance, but that doesn't make him objectively vulnerable. The non-compliant woman, though, suffers lasting moral injury by being forced to participate daily in a lie - a lie, moreover, that constitutes a fundamental threat to her own rights to privacy, dignity and safety.
It has been profoundly illuminating to see how many people - possibly because their own values spring, not from a place of rationality or true conviction, but from fashion and self-interest - see male narcissistic injury as so very much more worthy of compassion than the moral injuries suffered by women.
A Muslim in Britain explains the truth
We aren't here to co-exist
We've been sent here to dominate and wipe you out
I'm starting to think this isn't a religion of peace after all
As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren’t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?
Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?
That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?
That men don’t belong in women’s sport?
That female prisoners shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?
That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?
That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?
That women shouldn’t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?
That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?
That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?
That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?
That gay people shouldn’t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as ‘genital fetishists’ when they don’t?
That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren’t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?
That said ideology, and the privileged, blinkered fools pushing it because they suffer zero consequences themselves, have done more damage to the political left’s credibility than Trump and Farage could have achieved in a century?
Let me have your thoughts.
@CartlandDavid Hi David, I know a Dr who was also struck off and is keen to speak with you. If you could send me a message I can put you in touch with him? Many thanks 😊
“You’ve been asking questions that have been causing some people harm and distress,” a police officer tells women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen - as she is removed from an International Women’s Day event in Nottingham today.
What questions had she been asking?
Whether women’s spaces - including domestic violence shelters and other services for vulnerable women - are actually women-only.
If this is the first time you’ve encountered Kellie-Jay Keen, you may find watching this video uncomfortable.
You might ask yourself whether it’s really necessary to shout things like:
“No woman has a penis.”
“Woman is an adult human female.”
Surely there must be a more polite way of going about it.
But Keen - like many women - has been raising these concerns for nearly a decade.
And two female police officers just told her they couldn't define the word woman, because doing so might upset men who identify as women - on International Women’s Day.
This harmful ideology has spread through education, healthcare, politics and the media permeating almost every aspect of public life - seeking to erase women and strip away their rights, while presenting itself as inclusion.
It's now too late for polite euphemisms. Women - and men - need to speak plainly and clearly.
A woman is an adult human female.
Women cannot, under any circumstances, have penises.
Anyone claiming otherwise is repeating a falsehood.
And when even police officers are afraid to state an obvious truth, that isn’t progressive - it is authoritarianism.
(Edited for brevity - link to full livestream videos in comments)
So a man invited to the BAFTA’s as inspiration for a film demonstrating the horrific hostility and lack of understanding people with Tourette’s face… is now facing horrific hostility and a lack of understanding over his Tourette’s?
Have I got that right? 🤦
I always bring up this philosophy book on this topic. When you ask a human what it would be like to be a bat, they say, “I would fly around and explore all the things I can't as a human.” The problem is, that is not what a bat does; that's what a human would do if they had a bat's form. A human cannot understand a bat's mind.
It's the same with the trans issue. A man does not become a woman. A man acts like a man in the guise of a woman. A man can never truly understand a woman's mind. It is all pantomime.
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.