I’d like to see the social worker tell the inquiry what she told the parents of a 13 year-old being groomed by a gang. ‘She’s made a lifestyle choice’. Ffs 🤮
Good news from America re the children’s hospital; I earnestly hope for prosecutions soon.
I would have expected better from Helena Kennedy, but then she is labour, so more fool me.
Excellent discussion between Helen & Maya; I would say that none of the demands of TRAs meet the WORIADS standard.
My money’s on the common sense of the Irish people to kill the hate speech legislation. Surely they won’t allow their hard-won right to free speech be buggered about with by European diktat.
If you think I’m being grumpy, you’d be right. I’m a martyr to IBS.
Thanks for a great update, Dusty. #LGB✂️TQ #JoinTheFSU #LetWomenSpeak #WomenWillSpeak
At least a national inquiry can impel people to give evidence!
I used to be a fan of Helena Kennedy - I met her once - very disappointed with her!
Yes hopefully none of the TRA demands meet WORIADS.
I'm gearing up for the hate speech battle in Ireland!! To quote Gript the people came down from their mud huts to defeat the Government in the Constitutional Referendum so they can do it again!!
Two outstanding pieces of good news here- the grooming gang inquiry and the LA Children’s Hospital. A close eye will be required in each case to ensure that there’s no back peddling, delaying and back room deals going on. I’m afraid I don’t trust Labour an inch on the inquiry, too many of them are implicated in connections to members of grooming gangs and the ‘tribes’ from which the gangs originate. I hope Raja Miah is involved and gets the credit he deserves.
These days so many sentences could begin….’ I can’t believe’. For today there’s the disgustingly misogynistic treatment of lesbians, the three legal luminaries 🤦🏻 and Ireland’s descent into madness. I hear myself sounding like Victor Meldrew.
What a wonderful squirrel MOTHER. Thanks Dusty for two great updates.
I think a lot may turn on who heads the Inquiry but hopefully the victims and others will have good legal representation. Yes, hope Raja Miah involved.
Yes, that bit was interesting too. And I can appreciate that it might be easier to make the GRA effectively toothless rather than pinning everything on repealing it. But even if we managed that, I still think that keeping it on the statute books would continue to be an undermining of sex-based rights and child safeguarding in principle, as well as giving legitimacy to the new homophobia.
I totally agree, Becca. I think the problem is that it was (supposedly ) complying with the European Court of Human Rights judgment in Goodwin v UK ( also interesting that Mr Goodwin made a big thing about the possibility of him being 'outed' but turns out he is - surrpise, surprise - an obvious bloke in a dress!!). So we might need to get out of the European Convention but I have come around to thinking we should do that because we don't need a supra national court beyond our control telling us what to do!! We'll leave that to our Supreme Court, thanks.
I agree, Dusty. And the sovereignty issue aside, If the ECHR doesn’t recognise the human rights violations committed due to one of its judgments then it can only ever do us more harm than good.
Amen to that. I'm reminded of JFK's "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." And of Solzhenitsyn's "live not by lies".
Somewhat apropos of which and of your video of Joyce & Forstater, you might also "signal-boost" this interview of both of them by Substacker, UK lawyer, and author Helen Dale:
This bit seems particularly relevant to the "barking mad" efforts, even the discussion, to allow people to "legally change sex":
HJ: "And like all mammals, we do come in two sexes. And so something that tries to deny something as basic as that is nearly as fundamental as denying that we breathe air or that we need to sleep or we need to eat. Not quite, but pretty close to it. And you can expect dire consequences if you lie in your law and your policymaking and your education of all sorts at every level in school and universities about something absolutely fundamental to the nature of humanity."
Not for nothing did Joyce and Dale argue or suggest that transgenderism is a "civilization threatening/ending movement". Though moot whether that is hyperbole or understatement, but I, and no few others, tend to the latter.
Crux of the matter is the question of what rights, if any, are women -- as "adult human females" -- entitled to that are not granted to men -- as "adult human males". One might, at least as something of devil's advocate, suggest that the ladies "doth protest too much". However, it doesn't take much understanding of biology -- which is, sadly, rather lacking in too many quarters including in various "women studies programs", and among various feminist ideologues and so-called "philosophers" -- to realize that there are some fundamental bedrock differences between males and females of far-reaching consequence -- "women are from Venus, men are from Mars" -- that must, perforce, be acknowledged in law.
Somewhat apropos of those feminist ideologues -- as much a part of the problem as of the solution -- you might be amused to note Dale's argument that the "transcult" is the "bastard child of feminism", for which it needs to take some responsibility:
I’d like to see the social worker tell the inquiry what she told the parents of a 13 year-old being groomed by a gang. ‘She’s made a lifestyle choice’. Ffs 🤮
Good news from America re the children’s hospital; I earnestly hope for prosecutions soon.
I would have expected better from Helena Kennedy, but then she is labour, so more fool me.
Excellent discussion between Helen & Maya; I would say that none of the demands of TRAs meet the WORIADS standard.
My money’s on the common sense of the Irish people to kill the hate speech legislation. Surely they won’t allow their hard-won right to free speech be buggered about with by European diktat.
If you think I’m being grumpy, you’d be right. I’m a martyr to IBS.
Thanks for a great update, Dusty. #LGB✂️TQ #JoinTheFSU #LetWomenSpeak #WomenWillSpeak
You're welcome, Liz.
Sorry to hear about the IBS.
At least a national inquiry can impel people to give evidence!
I used to be a fan of Helena Kennedy - I met her once - very disappointed with her!
Yes hopefully none of the TRA demands meet WORIADS.
I'm gearing up for the hate speech battle in Ireland!! To quote Gript the people came down from their mud huts to defeat the Government in the Constitutional Referendum so they can do it again!!
Dusty
I probably always sound grumpy but without your excuse 😁. Hope you feel better soon Liz.
Likewise 😃
Two outstanding pieces of good news here- the grooming gang inquiry and the LA Children’s Hospital. A close eye will be required in each case to ensure that there’s no back peddling, delaying and back room deals going on. I’m afraid I don’t trust Labour an inch on the inquiry, too many of them are implicated in connections to members of grooming gangs and the ‘tribes’ from which the gangs originate. I hope Raja Miah is involved and gets the credit he deserves.
These days so many sentences could begin….’ I can’t believe’. For today there’s the disgustingly misogynistic treatment of lesbians, the three legal luminaries 🤦🏻 and Ireland’s descent into madness. I hear myself sounding like Victor Meldrew.
What a wonderful squirrel MOTHER. Thanks Dusty for two great updates.
You're welcome, TT.
I think a lot may turn on who heads the Inquiry but hopefully the victims and others will have good legal representation. Yes, hope Raja Miah involved.
Those three lawyers!!!!!!
Thanks for the squirrel mum, Liz!
Dusty
Maya raises an interesting point by questioning whether all the TRA demands meet the WORIADS standard. Would be good to see this tested.
Hi Becca
Yes that was a good point.
I note she was not against the idea of repealing the GRA but just thought it would be very difficult to achieve.
Dusty
Yes, that bit was interesting too. And I can appreciate that it might be easier to make the GRA effectively toothless rather than pinning everything on repealing it. But even if we managed that, I still think that keeping it on the statute books would continue to be an undermining of sex-based rights and child safeguarding in principle, as well as giving legitimacy to the new homophobia.
I totally agree, Becca. I think the problem is that it was (supposedly ) complying with the European Court of Human Rights judgment in Goodwin v UK ( also interesting that Mr Goodwin made a big thing about the possibility of him being 'outed' but turns out he is - surrpise, surprise - an obvious bloke in a dress!!). So we might need to get out of the European Convention but I have come around to thinking we should do that because we don't need a supra national court beyond our control telling us what to do!! We'll leave that to our Supreme Court, thanks.
Dusty
I agree.
I agree, Dusty. And the sovereignty issue aside, If the ECHR doesn’t recognise the human rights violations committed due to one of its judgments then it can only ever do us more harm than good.
Agreed, Becca 👍
> "Telling The Truth As A Revolutionary Act"
Amen to that. I'm reminded of JFK's "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." And of Solzhenitsyn's "live not by lies".
Somewhat apropos of which and of your video of Joyce & Forstater, you might also "signal-boost" this interview of both of them by Substacker, UK lawyer, and author Helen Dale:
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/when-does-sex-matter/
This bit seems particularly relevant to the "barking mad" efforts, even the discussion, to allow people to "legally change sex":
HJ: "And like all mammals, we do come in two sexes. And so something that tries to deny something as basic as that is nearly as fundamental as denying that we breathe air or that we need to sleep or we need to eat. Not quite, but pretty close to it. And you can expect dire consequences if you lie in your law and your policymaking and your education of all sorts at every level in school and universities about something absolutely fundamental to the nature of humanity."
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/when-does-sex-matter/
Not for nothing did Joyce and Dale argue or suggest that transgenderism is a "civilization threatening/ending movement". Though moot whether that is hyperbole or understatement, but I, and no few others, tend to the latter.
Crux of the matter is the question of what rights, if any, are women -- as "adult human females" -- entitled to that are not granted to men -- as "adult human males". One might, at least as something of devil's advocate, suggest that the ladies "doth protest too much". However, it doesn't take much understanding of biology -- which is, sadly, rather lacking in too many quarters including in various "women studies programs", and among various feminist ideologues and so-called "philosophers" -- to realize that there are some fundamental bedrock differences between males and females of far-reaching consequence -- "women are from Venus, men are from Mars" -- that must, perforce, be acknowledged in law.
Somewhat apropos of those feminist ideologues -- as much a part of the problem as of the solution -- you might be amused to note Dale's argument that the "transcult" is the "bastard child of feminism", for which it needs to take some responsibility:
https://www.notonyourteam.co.uk/p/a-common-humanity-or-bust
https://www.notonyourteam.co.uk/p/the-transcult