Time to tackle the tyranny of the transgender tribe
RESPECT for history, tolerance, enlightenment and even truth are being swept away by a form of ideological madness, dressed up as inclusion, which now grips our institutions.
Toxic identity politics is one aspect of this destructive cultural revolution. Another is the dominance of the extremist transgender creed, which challenges the very biological reality of human existence.
The lunacy of this dogma was perfectly captured in a statement last year by Labour MP Dawn Butler, who claimed that “babies are born without a biological sex”.
Her remark was the equivalent of a denial that the world is round, yet the gender flatearthers increasingly control public policy. At the weekend, it was revealed that prestigious girls’ school St Paul’s has succumbed to the gender-fluid insanity.
It announced that the term “head girl” is to be abolished, because it has “binary connotations”, and therefore must be replaced by a “more inclusive” gender-neutral title.
WHEN the term “head girl” is deemed offensive at a girls’ school, then the inmates really have taken over the asylum. It’s reported that the school recently held a training session, entitled “Beyond the Binary”, in which staff were told that there are at least 150 different gender identities.
The experience of St Paul’s is not just an indicator of the ruling elite’s mentality, but encapsulates the three darkest features of the hardline trans agenda: the erosion of women’s rights, the corruption of childhood innocence and the rejection of science.
Trans campaigners pretend that their cause is in the great tradition of heroic fights for emancipation, like the struggle for gay liberation. But there is nothing remotely progressive about the trans movement. On the contrary, it creates a vicious climate of rampant misogyny and dangerous ignorance.
Decisions like this are profoundly disempowering because they imply that the female gender should be airbrushed from the public discourse.
This attitude can be found everywhere in modern Britain. Absurdly, parts of the NHS use the term “birthing parent” rather than mother, while one police force talks of “pregnant employees” and a railway company was recently denounced for referring to “ladies and gentlemen” over the tannoy.
But this is not just about language. After years of progress, female autonomy is under threat through the encroachment by men who “identify” as women into spaces such as gyms, domestic violence refuges, toilets, sports and changing rooms.
Just as worryingly, the trans movement, with its emphasis on “feelings ” and “self-identity”, reduces womanhood to little more than an adoptive pose or a collection of stereotyped “feminine” traits. As the writer J K Rowling put it: “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women is globally erased.”
HOSTILITY towards women is matched by contempt for the innocence of youth, reflecting the trans movement’s neurotic obsession with sexuality and its determination to indoctrinate.
This is seen at its worst in the reckless official willingness to encourage some children – before their brains have fully developed – to undergo lifechanging gender reassignment treatment, including even surgery and puberty blockers, the
‘If sex isn’t real the lived reality of women is globally erased’
long-term impact of which is still unknown.
One woman, Keira Bell, who recently won a court case after she felt she had been rushed by a clinic into transitioning from female to male, said: “I was allowed to run with this idea that I had – almost like a fantasy – as a teenager.”
The words of Ms Bell, who underwent a reversal of this process, go to heart of the issue. The trans agenda is a fad, like the post-war medical enthusiasm for frontal lobotomies or electric shock therapy, built on politics rather than science.
There are not hundreds of gender identities, nor is gender “fluid”. Yet these delusions are now enforced through censorship, boycotts and witch-hunts. Some feminists have lost their jobs; others have been silenced.
The issue has caused serious disagreements within Stonewall, the major LGBTQ+ campaigning charity, founded in 1989 to support gay rights – which took up trans rights in 2015 – and with some similar groups.
Nancy Kelley, Stonewall’s chief executive, even likened gender-critical beliefs to antisemitism in a BBC interview.
Again that illustrates how unbalanced the movement has become. The authorities should take on these wreckers, instead of cowering before them.