Trans box-ticking is just exhausting
THERE’S no escaping trans madness, even on ITV’S Vera. Last week’s murder mystery involved a doe-eyed youth in a dress who had been moved from a female hostel because of the fear he was a threat to women. Vera was appalled. That shouldn’t have happened to “a lass like you”, she cooed.
Box duly ticked. I know this would have been filmed months ago, but it aired just days after a male rapist was sent to a women’s prison.
It made you realise how every institution now grovels before the trans lobby.
DCI Vera Stanhope used to be a refreshingly gruff and uncompromising character.
Now she’s merely a mouthpiece for “progressive” obsessions.
Even Anglican bishops are bleating about a “project on gendered language”, looking at whether we can go on talking about “God the Father” and referring to “He” or “Him”. You can see this could exercise the finest theological minds for decades.
But for the rest of us it’s simply more ruddy gender stuff. Exhausting and boring, it’s like being trapped in a quagmire. The more you struggle, the deeper you sink.
Turn on the radio or TV and I sometimes feel nobody is talking about anything else.
Kevin Lister is a maths teacher who was sacked a few months ago for refusing to call a girl pupil by a boy’s name because the parents hadn’t been consulted.
He wasn’t even refusing to call the girl a boy. He simply wouldn’t do it without parental consent. It beggars belief.
You now need parental consent and a safeguarding certificate before you can give a child an Elastoplast. But when it comes to transy stuff the child must be indulged without question and parents have no say.
“This is normalising absurdities,” said Lister last week, a man dedicated to the teaching of logic and reasoning.
I don’t think we have too many maths teachers to spare so it’s a shame he was sacked. He used to run a maths competition
for female students, presumably to encourage girls – who often veer towards arts subjects – to take up maths.
The girl who wants to be a boy asked if she could still take part! It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
Lister is calling for the Government to give advice on how schools should proceed because teachers are (understandably) terrified of being labelled transphobes. As indeed are many children, which is even
more disturbing. But the Government is equally scared of the entire issue and would just like it to disappear. Most of us feel the same way. What the trans extremists don’t understand is that while reasonable people are perfectly sympathetic to trans people’s problems and requirements, we don’t actually think about them much. If at all.
That’s not hostility, it’s benign indifference towards a tiny minority of the population. So if that makes me a Terf, then tough.