I recently watched a video by the gender critical ex feminist Posie Parker about an incident that happened at a small village political hustings. Now I don’t always agree with her on everything, but where I do agree with her is on the issues of the right of women to have their own spaces and on the way that the gender ideology is being pushed in inappropriate ways.
Like Mrs Parker I also am concerned about the implications of the proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, which the Liberal Democrats heavily support. These are reforms which will allow anyone to declare themselves a member of the opposite sex to which they are, without any controls or supervision of this process.
If the left get their way and self declaration becomes allowable without the person having to embark on any process of gender reassignment as is the case at present with those allegedly suffering from gender dysphoria. These lunatic proposals go far too far and will allow men to declare themselves as female and enter women only spaces. There would be no need for a real life test which would require the male to female transsexual to live as a woman for at least a year, nor any medication or, psychiatric or surgery requirement as is the case at present. A man could just declare himself female and would have to be legally considered as female.
I don’t like these proposals for two reasons. The first is that it endangers the safety of women and girls. It certainly endangers their privacy. I’m hearing a lot of stories from various sources of what has happened in schools where the gender ideology has taken hold and where toilets have been turned unisex. This has caused some young girls at crucial times of their life, their teenage years, to fear going to the toilet because of the presence of the opposite sex in the toilets. Girls are said to be avoiding urination in school toilets because of the fear of being heard by boys in the same toilet room. Young ladies struggling to get to understand their bodies and embarrassed by menstruation are staying off of school during their periods for similar reasons of lack of security and privacy in ‘gender neutral’ toilets. This is not good for girls and cannot be right.
The second reason why I dislike the idea of gender self identification is that it erases women. It tells women that there is nothing unique or wonderful or miraculous about their bodies. It tells women that they do not deserve to have their own spaces, that they have no right to object should a man who declares himself a woman, probably only a few hours previously, walk into a women’s changing room or toilet.
Another reason why I dislike the gender ideology, apart from the mutilated, sterilised ‘trans’ children and the way it erases women, is the bullying nature of trans activists. I’ve encountered and worked with quite a few of these over the years and they are often self-centred, demanding and uncompromising. Some were even quite aggressive, turning every conversation, every meeting, into a ‘trans issue’. This very male tendency for these troon activists to be aggressive and entitled was bad enough when I was dealing with them in the late 1990’s (I was on the team organising a big alt-culture event) but the problems are a great deal worse now when it seems that they can now manipulate the police.
To get to the meat and potatoes of this story, Mrs Posie Parker spoke about a hustings event held in a United Reform Church in Wiltshire is pretty worrying. She said in the video, that I would strongly counsel that you watch, that she attended a hustings meeting in a small Wiltshire village. One of those that Mrs Parker said was attending this hustings at a branch of the United Reform Church was trans activist and Lib Dem candidate for Chippenham, Helen Belcher. Mrs Parker said that prior to the meeting she saw Ms Belcher speak to one of the organisers. Shortly after this was seen the police turned up. Mrs Parker said that the police hung around outside for a while and then two officers came in and sat themselves down in the hall. They stayed there for the entire one and half hours of the meeting. Mrs Parker said that she overheard others who had attended previous hustings at this church remark that the police had never been called before.
It is my suspicion that someone flagged up Mrs Parker as being an opponent of the gender ideology and that the police were sent down to the hall in order to intimidate Mrs Parker and other opponents of the gender ideology who may have been in attendance. Bearing in mind that this hustings was being held in a small village and was not massively high profile it does make one wonder just who called the police and why they were there for such a long time when they must surely have had more pressing work to attend to? Surely they were not there to arrest or intimidate those who might raise objections to the gender ideology or even to protect Ms Belcher’s feelings from being hurt?
The other issue that Mrs Parker’s video highlights is how the pastor of the URC subtly edited a written question (yes at this hustings only written questions were allowed), to take away any reference to sudden onset gender dysphoria. I do wonder why this was done because this aspect of the question as recalled by Mrs Parker, was extremely relevant to the question. This was regarding a person’s vulnerable relative who was hospitalised in a mental hospital after bullying related to his sexuality, who is now, after contact with therapists pushing the gender ideology, claiming that he wants to be a woman and that he is a woman. For the pastor to leave out the issue of the gender ideology when putting this question to the panel, is either incompetence or worse a deliberate attempt to edit the question to take out that which is controversial.
There is something really not right about this hustings if it went as Mrs Parker said it did. People should be allowed to ask their own questions themselves or submit a written question if that is their wish to do so. They should not be compelled to put their words into the mouths of intermediaries whether that mouth belong to the most eloquent QC, an educated academic or in this case, a cleric.
It’s also not right that the police turn up and just sit there as an ominous ‘presence’ at an event like this. It gives the impression that the police or others are expecting trouble, especially where the presence of police officers is more than usually noticable. It is also as I said earlier a bit intimidating to sit two officers for such a long time at such an event. There was no need for them to be there, a church hall hustings is hardly likely mutate into a riot. It’s nice to know that our taxes pay for police resources to be wasted in this way.
This is a video that’s well worth watching to see how the issue of women’s right to secure and private spaces and the promotion of the gender ideology is now a forbidden subject of debate. However, debate this issue we must because the claims that trans activists make must be examined openly lest a small group of people, some with malicious intent, end up calling the shots with regards to this issue.
