Hi all.
The vast majority of people who are reading this blog will know this already, but
for those who do not - I am very passionate about my support for Women's Rights
aka I'm Gender Critical.
I have not
fallen for fairytale Gender woo-woo, I simply buy into straightforward facts:
There are only two Sexes - Male and Female
It is impossible for a person to change Sex - a Man cannot become a woman and a
Woman cannot become a Man.
Yes, in some countries a Male born person can have it said on some documents
that they are now Female; But let's call
a spade a spade here.
A person physically cannot change Sex, it is
simply impossible.
So some countries legally allowing Male born persons to change their
designation to Female on some documents, would be akin to Belgium allowing Mr.
Penguin - of Eurotrash fame -to state on their Passport, that they are a
Penguin.
I am also a Marxist-Socialist, in that I believe the state should run things in
the public intereest on a not for profit basis, be it building houses,
Healthcare, college education free at the point of delivery and providing transportation services etc.
Last week a
group of people living on the island of Ireland joined together in Belfast for
an event headlined by prominent UK Campaigner Kellie Jay Keen aka Poise Parker.
I was unable to attend the event for personal reasons but I expressed by full
solidarity online with those who did make it.
Suddenly I had people claiming that I was of the Far Right and others saying
they were sad to see that I had aligned myself with the Far Right etc.
Why did they start saying this stuff?
The reason was because, out of the few hundred persons who had attended
the Standing for Women event, at most a handful, were in fact Far Right agitators.
Any notion that I in anyway had any grá for members of the Far Right, is
preposterous in the extreme.
Yes of
course, it would be nice of a Fortune Teller was able to hand me a list of all
those who were to attend an event, in advance of it happening, but that is
never going to happen.
I have been on large scale marches on issues such as opposition to Water
Charges, opposition to the Property Tax, against Austerity and more resent
protests to do with housing.
Given the massive turnouts at these protests there were persons from all walks
of life at them.
This included people who would be regarded as being involved in Far
Right activism.
Also on these protests were TD's and councillors from Far-Left parties.
Now using the yardstick, folks (involved in the same political parties as
these elected representatives) used
last Sunday, during and after the Belfast Standing for Women event; These
Politicians are now Far-right sympathisers too.
Let's take
the current issue of the housing crisis in the Republic of Ireland (I have
recently become aware of there being a severe housing crisis in the UK too)
I thank the
politicians in the Solidarity-People Before Profit party for the work they are
doing, both in highlighting the homeless crisis in this country, while also
trying to help those sadly living with no roof over their head.
As I have said, there have been recent protests held across Ireland on the
housing issue.
This issue is of vital importance to many people, just as the issue of Women's
safety while using public spaces, is important to many people too.
Should the Left Wing TD's and Councillors refrain from attending such protests
because of the possibility that a tiny number of those present might be of a
Far-right persuasion?
In my view; absolutely not.
I welcome the Left Wing TD's and Councillors attendance at these protests. The issue is far too important
and urgent, that they should not turn up because a tiny number of Far Right
elements sought (and as always, failed) to hijack the event for their own
Neanderthal motivations.
I was
recently reading a # thread on Twitter of people claiming that J.K. Rowling was
Transphobic and/or in league with the Far Right.
However one - not one - of these Tweeters, when I asked them for proof to back
up their allegations, could provide any.
As per usual, quite a few of them tried to put a false slant on my motivations for asking,
before Blocking me.
Recap: They made an allegation about
someone.
All I did was ask them to back up this allegation with proof; no more no less.
The way some of the Trans Rights Activism side try to blindly place pins on
imaginary Donkeys is something to behold.
This analogy I'm going to use, might
seem very far-fetched to you, but believe you me it. sadly, sums up where we
are:
Imagine you
go on Holiday and you visit a lovely Restaurant and the food and the service
were excellent
You decide to ask the Waiter to get into a photo with you and your companions and you put the photo
online praising the food, the service from the Waiter and recommending that people visit said Restaurant.
Now fast forward a couple of months atfer your meal and
what ops up online? A video of this same
waiter speaking at a Far Right Rally, saying things you never in a million
years would agree with.
My money would be on somebody doing a
collage of your Restaurant photo and the
video and declaring that this proves without doubt, that you have an affinity
with the Far Right.
Honest to god folks, this is the level of imaginary straw clutching we have now
reached.
Let me be
abundantly clear:
I and 98% of the persons I have come across who declare themselves to be Gender
Critical genuinely do recognise and respect a person's Right to live as Trans.
We have no problem saying Trans-women are Trans-women or that Trans-men are
Trans-men.
But we will never go along with the falsehood of Male born persons becoming
Women or Female born persons becoming men.
A Woman is an Adult Human Female, a Man is an Adult Human Male.
We recognise
and respect a persons' Right to identify and live as Trans
Be it a Male born person as a Trans-woman or a Female born person as a
Trans-man.
We simply oppose Male born persons - regardless of how they identify these days - or whatever, from entering Female single sex spaces (ladies toilets changing
rooms etc in a venue) and Female sports.
The vast
majority of people I know who declare themselves to be Gender Critical are
Left-Wing.
About 20% would be either Right wing or centrist on economic issues
The 80% of us Left Gender Critical folk believe
the state should house ALL people who are in need of a house, be they Straight,
Bisexual Gay/Lesbian or Trans.
98% of us, be it Left/Centre/Right Wing, genuinely welcome the fact that Transpersons continue to enjoy the same
rights as you or I.
We wish it to remain that way.
Just to further show how disparate
people can be on issues; I have seen Trans-women on Twitter who are completely
and utterly opposed to abortion and I have seen Trans-women who have been very
active in their support for the Right to choose.
Same goes for Gender Critical persons.
I have read
my Tweets from people on one side of the fence, saying they wish people would
stop discussing the issue of Trans versus Women's Rights.
Another NEWSFLASH: If Male born persons would just stop trying to access Female
single sex spaces and sports, 95% of the chatter would stop.
In the vast,
vast majority of cases, when I head to a protest, I simply do not know how many
people will turn up, or where most of them will have come from.
Some issues will have a very broad universal appeal.
Such as Women's Rights, or s the Poll Tax did
in the UK in the 80's and the Water Charges issue did in Ireland, both North
and South in the more recent past.
There were Far right people in northern Ireland who declared their opposition
to Water Charges at the time of the mass struggle opposing them.
Did I for one nano-second think that this meant the left-wing groups at the
forefront of the water Charges battle in the Six Counties where in anyway now aligned with the
Far-Right? No.
It is
obvious the pink haired nose ring brigade can't bare to acknowledge our
existence, but sorry to disappoint ye: Us Left Wing Gender Crits are very much
here to stay!
