Trans extremists have egg on their faces once again
Across the world, this has been a good week for feminists and a bad one for trans activists. Sadly, it shows the shocking extent to which the two groups’ interests are now opposed.
Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis centre announced it will not be a part of the Rape Crisis Scotland service after the CEO said there was no reason why transgender people (aka men) could not work in rape support centres.
The Glasgow Centre’s priority is to provide a single-sex service by an all-female workforce. In a victory for women facing some of the worst-imaginable circumstances, it will no longer accept the dogma peddled by other “trans inclusive” rape crisis centres across Scotland. It beggars belief that women have to now fight through potential controversy and cancellation for something that, only 10 years ago, was an inalienable right.
In another win for common sense, this week’s Charity Commission report into the trans charity ‘Mermaids’ has unveiled mismanagement and poor governance rife at the heart of the organisation. Supposedly set up to “relieve the mental and emotional stress of children and young people affected by gender identity issues and their families”, there have been several huge scandals attached to Mermaids.
Also this week, a New York Times investigation exposed the decision to apparently cover up the results of a study into the effects of puberty blockers on the mental health of young people with gender dysphoria.
Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the lead researcher, vociferous trans activist and lobbyist for ‘gender-affirming care’, had set out to show that young patients given puberty blockers would experience “decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, self-injury and suicidality”.
But the evidence, which Olson-Kennedy is said to have suppressed, showed nothing of the kind. Olson-Kennedy said that she was worried the study’s findings would be “weaponised” by those opposed to gender ideology.
Despite these significant wins beginning to turn the tide on trans ideology’s choke-hold on the establishment, feminists must not be complacent. The war is not yet won. Far too many institutions are still enthralled by this madness.
Women (and men) across the UK have been forced to take employers to court over bullying and discrimination in the workplace simply because they hold the view that there are only two biological sexes, rather than hundreds of ‘gender identities’. Some police forces still record the ‘preferred gender’ of male sex offenders when they are arrested. As a result, a number of female victims of male violence have been compelled to refer to their perpetrator as ‘she’; and other equally horrific stories prevail.
And, the British Medical Association advised medics not to trust the findings of the impressive, rigorous and impartial Cass Review because it doesn’t align with their blinkered view on social transitioning.
When I recently interviewed a number of parents of young people who were being encouraged by school teachers to socially transition for my podcast series, I was shocked. I heard that these parents were threatened with having their children taken away if they refuse to affirm their child as the opposite sex.
Despite the Cass Review being conclusive and hard-hitting, that medical professionals, social services, police forces and other pillars of society refuse to accept its conclusive findings show there is still so much more to be done.
While these atrocities continue to happen, we cannot rest on our laurels.