The Logic Trap ( or the Scottish Lesson)
Update 26
We can all present our main arguments off pat as Kellie-Jay often does at the start of a Let Women Speak rally.
No woman has a penis. No man has a vagina. Non-binary is nonsense. Biology is not a social construct. You can’t change sex.
We need to keep making these (obvious, common sense!) arguments but maybe we don’t even need to go that far to win the war.
If you make gender self ID a relatively simple process then ( as we saw with Adam Graham/Isla Bryson) it becomes very easy for a rapist, a murderer, a sex offender, a paedophile or any other violent man to be recognised in law as a woman… and then to enter women’s spaces, such as prisons. Given that only 1 in 60 rape cases even lead to a man being charged ( https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/23/fewer-than-one-in-60-cases-lead-to-charge-in-england-and-wales ), how do you know that a man who is sent to prison for a non-violent offence, isn’t actually a rapist. Do dangerous or predatory men wear signs around their necks?
Ted Bundy was a handsome man. On occasions he would pretend to be disabled and walk around a college campus with a crutch or with his arm in a sling and holding some books in the other hand. On seeing a young woman, he would pretend to drop the books. She would help him to take the books to his car. On more than one occasion, that was the end of her life. Bundy killed at least 30 young women ( probably more).
If Bundy had been sent to prison for a non-violent crime and then identified as a woman, you would not think to look at him that he was, in fact, a serial killer.
This is the Logic Trap and Nicola Sturgeon found herself caught in it. She variously tried to refer to a risk assessment or , it seemed, to a rapist being some separate category ( yet another gender perhaps). Perhaps a man could become a woman and then stop being a woman if he committed a violent crime. Would he then start being a woman again once he had finished his sentence? You cannot get out of the Logic Trap - it is like a maze without an exit. You enter and then you are trapped.
This is what the political parties of the UK need to understand. Even if you believe this utter nonsense, it won’t work. Don’t talk to Stonewall and their allies. Talk to the general public for a change. Remember what happened in Scotland.
Meanwhile I am delighted to say that, after a rigorous interviewing process, I have appointed a new sensitivity reader? Have you got anything to say?
Sensitivity reader: Humza Yousaf can F*** right off for starters.
Steady, tiger!
Is this man dangerous?
Gender archaeology
Excellent video by EDI Jester who has dug back into the origins of all this gender ideology nonsense:
This links in to a substack from EDI on the same subject:
https://edijester.substack.com/
In a recent post ( A New Idea?) I referred to the wonderful work of Genevieve Gluck who looked at magazines from about the same time as Dyke magazine that EDI refers to, which were written by men who referred to themselves as 'heterosexual transvestites'. Whatever happened to them? Oh yes, they realised it would be much more advantageous if they referred to themselves as... ? ( your starter for ten) . The rest is history (definitely HIStory in this context)
Gay man buys book
Glinner reports on one of his subscribers, a gay man, trying to get a copy of Time to Think by Hannah Barnes from Waterstones. He has to visit several stores before he can buy a copy ( and the copy he buys appears to be the only one in that store!). The evidence appears to be that Waterstones are trying to suppress the sales of this very important and bestselling book. Get your copy!!
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-gay-man-tries-to-buy-a-book
Roxane Gray
Roxane Gray is an American (ahem) ‘feminist icon’ who is currently doing a tour of the UK. She is the author of Bad Feminist.
She is quoted by Jason Okundaye in the Evening Standard ( Gender fascism is on the rise 07 March ):
Gay also counts the freedom and liberation of trans people as inseparable from the feminist projects of reproductive justice and bodily autonomy. An opinion columnist for the New York Times, in 2023, she was one of more than 370 current and former contributors to sign an open letter condemning the newspaper’s editorial coverage and reporting on trans people. As Gay tells me, “trans rights are in crisis here in the US, just as they are in most parts of the world. It’s frustrating to see the sort of gender fascism that is on the rise here, because the people being affected are some of the most vulnerable people in our society.”
All I can say is that I haven’t read Bad Feminist but I presume it is an autobiography?
Sensitivity reader: Roxane Gray can go F*** herself as well!
Sorry about that!
Roald Dahl.