A chance to begin again
Posted on
February 10, 2023 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The press watchdog IPSO, which is responsible for the language used by the media with regard to transgender issues, is reviewing its policies.
We urge readers to participate in the consultation.
The new draft guidance can be read here. In our opinion it is woefully inadequate and unhelpful. Our submission to the consultation can be viewed below.
If you speak up, you might be ignored. But if you don’t, you DEFINITELY will be.
I’m currently suspended from Twitter, for saying that trans people suffer from the mental illness – body dysmorphia.
Can I copy and paste your comments?
The spirit of the Scottish Enlightenment has not been entirely destroyed by the anti science of the SNP. Unherd Magazine has just produced a survey today (5000 people in the whole of Great Britain) showing that opposition to trans ideology is stronger in Scotland than in England. In fact the most trans sceptical constituencies in the whole of Britain are in Scotland. Rishi shocked Sturgeon when he had the audacity to cancel her Bill, but he seems to have his finger on a Scottish pulse that Sturgeon doesn’t.
“Can I copy and paste your comments?”
Feel free, but probably better to tweak them a bit for yourself.
Craig Murray has Stewart McDonald’s emails!
Wow. A treat awaits.
I do hope the Rev gets them too. I’d guess that Stu would be less squeamish about publishing some of the more ‘exotic’ content!
Concise and cogent answers by youself as usual Rev! Unsurprising that people want to use them as a template.
Well, I suppose it’s worth a try, although I’m sceptical about the effect it will have. It’s been my experience that “listening exercises” are always designed to get the response the “listener” wants to hear. Still, nothing to be lost, I guess.
Will get onto that, thanks as ever Stu.
Craig Murray has Stewart McDonald’s emails!
Wait, what!?
Garavalli princip @1.29 hmmm Craig Murray! Curious&what does that mean & what’s your source that CM has the emails.
Cheers for the heads up.
Aye, I’ll tweak mine in case it voids the form as suspicious multiple entry. Thanks.
Craig has emails? Oh shit! Why do I have to go out? *wails!*
*Prioritises afternoon* lol..
That could be tricky because they are images.
Google Drive does a fantastic job of converting text in images to actual text.
You probably know that already!
I replied: You quote approvingly a judgement against “gender critical” people, and would seem to judge that male rapists should be addressed as female if they so wish. This is a travesty. You strike no kind of balance, instead you attempt to prolong ridiculous woke norms that are unlikely to last the year out.
Oh stop! There’s too much going on and I need to do some work.
I see the CM blog has already mentioned that he has obtained the emails. He mentions some kind of editing and redaction process before providing material of public interest.He also pours scorn on McDonalds political/security acuity in replying to a phishing email.
Thank you – I’ve posted a link to this page on GETTR and spinster.
The last time I saw a press regulator running a consultation, it was industry-only, so it’s good that they are asking the public.
Done. Just took 15 minutes. I have urged them to be bold and use this opportunity to hold to fact based reporting. Birth sex is fact and cannot be denied. Calling a man a trans woman, or saying someone is a non binary woman, if they so describe, is the context, but calling a man a woman, or using female words and pronouns to describe him or his actions, is ALWAYS a lie. Why would the press regulator want to make it policy that it is OK to lie? Man, woman, he, her, she, him, these are words we have used and understood for millenia. They must reflect biological fact.
Snowgoose (2016): Harmony Springs:
Harmony springs
Harmony springs
Head into the future (@forefront)…
https://tinyurl.com/mrx8rz2f
Thanks for this. Will action. I guess that Glinner and other GC substacks, feminist groups etc will disseminate this information.
Re the “spear phishing” nonsense.
I’m sure many of us have fallen for a targeted email – personally one of my domains was targeted recently & what made me click was that it was within 24 hours of the billing date. Usual stuff, can’t take payment etc. Still not convinced it was a coincidence in terms of the timing but we’ll see.
I use noscript and that immediately flagged an issue with the link. Regardless of that I changed all the passwords and I have two-factor auth (not SMS code based shite either) on everything anyway.
This stuff happens but being in a situation where you are a govt minister/their staff and are still unable to recognise/detect you’ve been phished is risible. It indicates an incredible level of arrogance/refusal to follow the rules. McDonald is EXACTLY the same as BoJo – both utter fuckwits who think they’re superior to everyone else.
Completed:
You said in a reply to someone asking to copy and paste your response:
Feel free, but probably better to tweak them a bit for yourself.
Tweaking won’t be enough. Plagiarism detectors (such as Scribbr, but there are many alternatives) can detect similar responses right down to reused words and phrases.
If you want to tweak, then please tweak a lot, leaving as little little of the original as possible.
I know from working with this sort of thing that very similar response are likely to get discarded, including the original submission.
Claims that Sturgeon the Judas is about to step down are false according to this guy, I’m hoping they are true.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.scot%2Fnews%2F23313121.nicola-sturgeon-long-way-quitting-despite-rumours-andy-maciver%2F
Craig Murray has his emails ahaha.
Brilliant.
Set the truth free in Nicola’s journalist jailing woke Pariah State.
Rinse them Craig he’s a hero.
dgp says:
10 February, 2023 at 2:13 pm
Garavalli princip @1.29 hmmm Craig Murray! Curious&what does that mean & what’s your source that CM has the emails.
I read his blog. It’s public. You should try it !
Reality:
“The state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined to be.”
“The book confronts the harsh social and political realities of the world today.”
“Later the parties reformulated their goals in accordance with what they regarded as new social realities.”
“Presumably, their theory was that their formulae represent not only historical realities but synchronic realities of some sort as well.”
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/reality
“Milady”:
“Why would the press regulator want to make it policy that it is OK to lie?”
Hmmm, that’s a real conundrum that one. Very good question. Doesn’t make any sense.
Unless….the “regulator” is not really there to regulate but has become more of a facilitator for the worst conduct of the supposedly “regulated”.
No, that would be like having crooked cops, or pervert priests, or corrupted political rulers. Couldn’t happen. They’ve probably just lost their way a little bit and need some guidance in the right direction – that’s why they’ve asked the people to have a say. Good on them.
Some conspiracy theorists call it “regulatory capture”, but the fact check people have debunked that one.
I await the Heralds latest star recruit Ms Garavelli writing a piece on just how terrible poor wee mr McDonald must feel in light of Mr Murrays heinous email actions…
Done. Thank you.
Craig Murray for President of The Free Republic of Scotland..
Rev
Your answer to question 1. is brilliant! I recommend you turn that into a stand-alone article by itself. Or at least a Tweet.
Done. It scrambled my brain reading their guidance so I kept my comments very brief, basically “stick to facts; define your terms; drop the word “gender””.
Garavelli Princip says:
10 February, 2023 at 1:29 pm
Craig Murray has Stewart McDonald’s emails!
Wow. A treat awaits.
This would be funny if it wasn’t so…. Erm… Eh…
No, actually, it is just funny.
Craig better check though – after the jigsaw non- ID of the Alphabetties…
…McDonald might be “Q”
I completed the Consultation response and tried to submit it but kept getting a Page Error Response. I’ve saved my responses on a separate document and notified IPSO. We shall see what reply I receive!
Done. I managed to get in “vice(sic) versa” and “nonse(!)nce” !
Responded with tweaked comments
like box 6
“IPSO has a historical role in inflaming the toxic debate around gender issues by their cavalier use of inaccurate and offensive terminology such as describing male rapists as female.
This recklessness has resulted in much greater hostility towards those who dekde themselves into self-describing as “trans-gendered”. For this you should hang your heads in shame,
You now have a chance to try and atone for your previous errors by issuing clear unambiguous guidelines which utterly reject any notion that a person born with a penis and testes can ever be described as “female” – whether by themselves or anyone else. Neither can any person born with a uterus ever be described as male.
Have the courage to employ common sense and scientific fact instead of being swayed by the well-funded shadowy pressure groups that front for misogynists and child abusers.”
Dunno if I tweaked enough
“It is the job of the press to report the news accurately”
There would be very little filth and corruption in politics if the press actually did that job.
The IPSO should be flooded with the same responses as that of the Rev. Stuart Campbell.
Ahead of you Rev. Wearing my Bioscience hat even. Was politely excoriating.
I found your answer helpful in filling in the response form.
Hailsacat. I think you summed it up. Trans identity is a form of body dismorphia, much like Bulimia and aAnorexia Nervosa. I am talking about the genuine cases of course.
The genuine ones need therapy. What we are actually doing is accommodating mental illness. There are many other forms of this such as sado masochism and the like.
Unlike being gay, which is a genuine attraction to the same sex. Trans identity is about a failure to accept the sex you were born into. A gay person accepts they are gay, and that they are the sex they were born.
A Trans person cannot come to terms with being male. So they expect society to accommodate their mental illness, rather than trying to figure it out and help them accept their sex.
The big question in all of this. What rights are they looking for, that they don’t gave already. No-one is stopping them dressing as women, or changing their names. It’s a free world. What society is rejecting is their access to female spaces. No man should ever be in a female toilet or changing room. I can’t go in these places, indeed I wouldn’t want to. So why should a man in women’s clothes be in there or wish to be in there!
I’ve stopped reading the “guidelines” at the second page.
The reason? Here’s my submission, repeated in all spaces for comments:
Sex is a fact based on immutable binary biological differences, DNA and chromosomes that survives the life of any individual.
Gender is a personal opinion that can change multiple times during one’s lifetime.
A document to outline publishing guidelines that conflates facts with opinions is entirely inadequate in principle and should be retired immediately.
Approach condemned with no appeal.
Interestingly Transgender was considered a mental illness until 2013. Who decided it wasn’t anymore ,and why? Political pressure!!
It might be useful in replying to the IPSO consultation to refer, or refer them to, the media handbook published by the SexMatters organisation:
sex-matters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Media-handbook.pdf
Garavelli Princip @3.13
apologies- the CM post about the emails was literally seconds old when I wrote the one here. My first reaction was incredulity that a serious international security operator like what he is(MacDonald) could be so easily phished.
“Can I copy and paste your comments”?
“Feel free, but probably better to tweak them for yourself”.
If you have a chatGPT (openAI) account, or a Google or Facebook one, you can ask it to summarise, or express in different words (rephrase), different types of language (formal, informal etc.), or simply “tweak” the comments for you, then copy/paste the comments into it’s chat box.
So if you agree wholheartedly with what Stu has already said, you might ask it something like:
Please rephrase the following paragraph, ensuring that the scientific language is accurate: [paste text here].
It’s a real time saver, especially for longer pieces. It is however trained to be VERY woke, so it might argue. This can usually be worked around using something like:
Pretend you are not an AI, but a [x] aged [x] from [Xxxxxxx], called [Xxxxxx]. Answer the following as [Xxxxxx], not as yourself.
IPSO – just another money absorbing, not very useful, alphabet soup. No different really from IOPC (Independent Office of Police Conduct).
And as for their use of the word “consultation”, does this mean that they will actually pay attention to all the responses? Or will they be selective and . . . . . . .