Author Topic: Trans rights: a perspective (Read 133237 times)

jeremyp · « **Reply #1375 on:** November 11, 2021, 10:45:22 AM »

The BBC is pulling out of Stonewall's diversity scheme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59232736

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1376 on:** November 11, 2021, 07:27:13 PM »

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1377 on:** November 12, 2021, 05:15:32 PM »

And Joan Smith on Lush and breastbinders

https://thecritic.co.uk/arrest-the-chest/

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1378 on:** November 14, 2021, 04:34:53 PM »

Harrowby Hall · « **Reply #1379 on:** November 18, 2021, 10:42:59 AM »

If you can, listen to today's Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

The Chief Executive of Stonewall, Nancy Kelly, is interviewed. I will not tell you what my opinion of the interview is, I will allow you to arrive at your own conclusions.

Enki · « **Reply #1380 on:** November 18, 2021, 11:28:21 AM »

Quote from: Harrowby Hall on November 18, 2021, 10:42:59 AM

If you can, listen to today's Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.

The Chief Executive of Stonewall, Nancy Kelly, is interviewed. I will not tell you what my opinion of the interview is, I will allow you to arrive at your own conclusions.

My wife and I listened to it, HH, and we were both of one mind(a situation which is itself very unusual

. As regards the CEO's responses, The words equivocation, prevarication, cowardice and bias seemed highly appropriate. Perhaps what we need is an organization which could advise Stonewall on how to conduct itself.

Harrowby Hall · « **Reply #1381 on:** November 18, 2021, 07:20:07 PM »

Your opinion does appear similar to mine, Enki.
One thing that struck me was the number of times she was given the opportunity to reconsider her most recent utterance but decided to continue her bizarre journey.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1382 on:** November 21, 2021, 09:47:20 PM »

Utter madness

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1383 on:** November 22, 2021, 12:15:05 AM »

Good piece

https://www.smh.com.au/national/gender-sex-and-power-the-debate-dividing-universities-20211118-p599zz.html

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1384 on:** November 22, 2021, 12:45:36 PM »

The indomitable JK Rowling

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1462758324177444870.html

jeremyp · « **Reply #1385 on:** November 22, 2021, 12:49:48 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 22, 2021, 12:15:05 AM

Good piece

https://www.smh.com.au/national/gender-sex-and-power-the-debate-dividing-universities-20211118-p599zz.html

It links a web site dedicated to gathering stories about women's spaces being invaded by males. It makes for interesting, if creepy, reading.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1386 on:** November 25, 2021, 01:53:17 PM »

'Exposing her penis'

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/teesside-woman-accused-using-sex-22260053

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1387 on:** November 29, 2021, 05:14:26 AM »

Alex Massie on JK Rowling

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c2d4e536-4fd2-11ec-9043-2aa4c0c21cd8?shareToken=776d1c1fc8913516526571d7f0d0a95c

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1388 on:** November 29, 2021, 04:08:53 PM »

Choose your age as well as your sex

https://www.womenarehuman.com/top-news-source-freedom-to-choose-ones-sex-age-will-end-discrimination-suffering/

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1389 on:** November 29, 2021, 07:12:19 PM »

Dawkins comes off the fence

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1465324057277173772?t=quvYEwRdPPQLfGAdA4QnbQ&s=19

Harrowby Hall · « **Reply #1390 on:** November 29, 2021, 07:34:27 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on November 29, 2021, 04:08:53 PM

Choose your age as well as your sex

https://www.womenarehuman.com/top-news-source-freedom-to-choose-ones-sex-age-will-end-discrimination-suffering/

So, I can go into a shop, thump the shopkeeper, open the till and run away with the contents ... taking a bar of chochocolate on the way. I tell the police that I am only seven years old and so below the age of criminal liability. Then I can expect Stonewall to stand up for me?

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1391 on:** November 29, 2021, 07:48:34 PM »

Quote from: Harrowby Hall on November 29, 2021, 07:34:27 PM

So, I can go into a shop, thump the shopkeeper, open the till and run away with the contents ... taking a bar of chochocolate on the way. I tell the police that I am only seven years old and so below the age of criminal liability. Then I can expect Stonewall to stand up for me?

To be fair, this isn't really a Stonewall thing.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1392 on:** December 01, 2021, 09:09:58 AM »

Heartbreaking blog from parent with a 'trans' child.

https://pitt.substack.com/p/an-unremarkable-story-from-the-age?r=5w8jg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=facebook

jeremyp · « **Reply #1393 on:** December 01, 2021, 03:06:22 PM »

Quote from: Nearly Sane on December 01, 2021, 09:09:58 AM

Heartbreaking blog from parent with a 'trans' child.

https://pitt.substack.com/p/an-unremarkable-story-from-the-age?r=5w8jg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=facebook

It's remarkable how many people seem to have forgotten what it was like going through puberty. If the bar for being transgender is "uncomfortable with your body" then practically everybody was transgender as a teenager and the teachers should have twigged that. I guess that was the point of the story though.

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1394 on:** December 01, 2021, 04:57:04 PM »

The erasure of women's sports continues

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1466044767561830405.html

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1395 on:** December 02, 2021, 09:58:11 AM »

Sad to see Matt Dillahunty losing the plot and completely opposing women's sex based spaces

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1396 on:** December 07, 2021, 02:39:04 PM »

Great from Ceri Black

https://thecritic.co.uk/prisoner-of-conscience/

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1397 on:** December 09, 2021, 09:14:01 AM »

Janice Turner on the cancellation of Rosie Kay

https://archive.vn/mIzcA

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1398 on:** December 09, 2021, 05:16:35 PM »

Painful, powerful thread by Marguerite Stern on the abuse she has received for standing up for women's sex based rights, and the effect it has had on her.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1468975254500433924.html

Nearly Sane · « **Reply #1399 on:** December 10, 2021, 02:01:29 PM »

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Author Topic: Trans rights: a perspective (Read 133237 times)