More of the More of the More of the Same
May. 22nd, 2021 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steepholmThis morning the Guardian publishes a puff review of Kathleen Stock's new book, which suggests that the stranglehold trans people have on public discourse has had a chilling effect. (Prof. Stock was given an OBE in this year's New Year's Honours.)
This afternoon Nick Robinson suggests on Radio 4 to the new Scottish finance minister that trans rights have become a new religion, which people question at their peril.
Neither seems to have encountered much peril, however.
By contrast, Tennessee has just introduced a law obliging any establishment that allows trans people to use the toilet to have the following wording on the entrance to each toilet door:
While journalists and professors with national platforms whine about being "silenced," trans people are being legislated out of society altogether. This is not a new observation, I know, but I think it's worth reiterating as long as it remains true.
This afternoon Nick Robinson suggests on Radio 4 to the new Scottish finance minister that trans rights have become a new religion, which people question at their peril.
Neither seems to have encountered much peril, however.
By contrast, Tennessee has just introduced a law obliging any establishment that allows trans people to use the toilet to have the following wording on the entrance to each toilet door:
This facility maintains a policy of allowing the use of restrooms by either biological sex, regardless of the designation on the restroom.
While journalists and professors with national platforms whine about being "silenced," trans people are being legislated out of society altogether. This is not a new observation, I know, but I think it's worth reiterating as long as it remains true.
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Date: 2021-05-23 01:22 am (UTC)Agreed. I wish it weren't true.
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Date: 2021-05-23 08:49 am (UTC)We are the egregious exception because we're a small enough group to bully and you have to have one..........
Yes I'm cynical,but I've been around for a long time and you know my ancestry...............
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Date: 2021-05-23 09:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-05-23 12:40 pm (UTC)If I'm not saying how do they suppose they'll know?
But that's always been the case. Number of times I've been challenged in the ladies in nearly fifty years?
Zero.
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Date: 2021-05-23 01:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-05-24 09:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-05-24 11:31 am (UTC)