The Moral Vacuum
Scottish Greens candidate and transactivist Matt “Ellie” Gomersall, with whom Wings readers will be familiar, appeared on the Jeremy Vine show today and blundered straight into an elephant trap a myopic mole could have seen coming on a foggy night.
Having just embarked on a diatribe in which he dismissed as “ridiculous” the idea that predatory men would ever pretend to be transwomen to gain access to vulnerable women, Vine asked him about Adam “Isla Bryson” Graham, the convicted double rapist that even hapless Humza Yousaf felt able to confidently assert was “at it”.
Having just painted himself into a corner, Gomersall was then embarrassingly unable to disown Bryson as a “real” transwoman, thereby implicitly admitting that transwomen do indeed present a danger to women in exactly the same way that predatory men do, and torpedoing his entire core point that it was unfair to “discriminate” against them in exactly the same way single-sex spaces discriminate against non-trans men.
(Outrageously, earlier in the speech he’d tried to claim that it was only natural that some transwomen would be sex offenders because some biological women were.)
It’s tempting to believe that Gomersall was demonstrating an intellectual vacuum by making such vacuously cretinous arguments and failing to spot even the most obvious pitfalls in them, but the truth is far worse. Gomersall, and people like him, know that they’re lying (which is why they always try to silence opponents), but they lack the moral courage to face up to the fact that the inevitable price of their lies is vulnerable women being raped by what he revoltingly waves away as “fringe cases”.
All rapists are fringe cases. 95% of men would never dream of raping anyone. But we discriminate against ALL men in women’s spaces because you can’t tell which ones are rapists by looking. Men like “Ellie” Gomersall, though, think that the price of a few women being raped is worth paying to validate their delusions and fetishes (in his case, the creepy fetish of skinwalking as his pretty sister), and they don’t even have the shred of decency to bother coming up with a coherent line of bullshit to cover it.
Fuckwit
“95% of men aren’t rapists” – I believe the percentage is smaller than that.
The rest of the article is spot on afaik
Thanks again Wings.
Then there are all the fetishist, Tracey – voyeurs, touchers, oglers; flashers, those turned on by the sound of females peeing, those who have a menstruation fetish – the list is endless. Add to them, the paraphiic men who can be dangerous if confronted with reality, and you have a right old sexual broth. But, hey, they just want to pee…
Oh dear, another fruitcake spouting absolute rubbish. Shown up for the absolute tube that he is, he/she or its days a numbered now
Just heard on the news that the British Transport Police have announced that they a revising their policies and this will be the start of a flood across health boards, education authorities, police forces and many many more organisations.
And the costs. They will not just be yesterdays Supreme Court costs but all the costs in the Scottish cases. And then there’s the cost of the compensation for the many women who have been discriminated against. And the costs of redoing all the public policies. Policies that had already had big bucks spent writing them and implementing them in every public organisation in the land.
And then you start to think about Mridial the man with balls who got a job in a woman’s rape centre masquerading as a woman. I wonder how many women will have been traumatised by having him near them.
This is going to run and run, cost the public purse big bucks. But yes, maybe we are all mistaken. Maybe our SNP and the many other politicians were always pro women and its just that we were all mistaken.
Be interesting to hear from the Fife health Board and what they are saying about their position vis a vis Nurse Peggie.
But yes, this loon ball on Jeremy Vine is another example of the political fruitcakes whose time has come
From one moral vacuum to another – anyone seen or heard from Sturgeon?
I’ve got to look at that Gomersall when they come into my local BK store in the Gorbals, it put’s me right off my food.
As for Sturgeon, she put in her apologies for the environmental meeting of the elected members and Govanhill residents on April 4th, probably to busy punting her new book, to be bothered about us, as if we haven’t enough problems about waste here! On the plus side, she sent her lackey Nicki Bassi. (Stu, if you want a copy of the minutes, they can be provided)
If you put lipstick on a pig you still have a pig.
A wolf wearing sheep’s clothing is still a wolf.
Wear what they like, name themselves what they like but you don’t go into women and girls toilets, changing rooms or sports.
Matt was interviewed on Scotland tonight by Rhona, he gave the same bs and she failed to give him the Isla, even Vine said ‘really’
Big thanks to you and Graham Linehan , i wonder if so called quiet friend’s will apologise to him? Thanks again Stu for keeping this in the spotlight along with all the other sane people of this world.
You’re some man for one man, Stuart Campbell!
Seems a long time since you first started drawing attention to this, Rev
I had no idea it was even a thing until you did
Or that it would go down the road it has done from being something self-evidently stupid to something genuinely disturbing
I suppose hindsight shows it was always going to take courtcases featuring brave individual women funded by small donations to expose the evil of it all
Their misogynistic contempt for women was their undoing because they never expected that.
I remember way, way back on twitter Stu having a heated argument with Mhari Hunter about this. That’s where I read it from too. I couldn’t believe what I was reading.
Yes, just like Sturgeon, Mhairi Hunter has gone strangely quiet as well.
Both misogynistic filth.
And whilst I am at it damn the SNP to hell for what they have put women through.
These men are something else, aren’t they…..just heard Iain Dale talking to Joanna Cherry, trying to justify men in women’s changing rooms by asking ‘how many women have been attacked by transwomen(men) in a changing room, as though, ‘well if there haven’t been that many women attacked, that’s not so bad…’
There should not be any males within female changing rooms!
LBC?
They’re fully paid up members of the cult.
I remember Posy Parker on a phone-in with James O’Brien where he just did his usual of taking over the entire phonecall himself, to answer himself & drown out the caller… that if he was in a ladies changing room no one would feel threatened by him being there…well, durr… everyone knows who he is & he’d lose his job if he tried anything. Not exactly the same as a strange 6ft burley bloke getting his kit off & walking around naked *cause he has rights* is it?
This cult has exposed a lot of people who’ll never win their credibility back that’s for sure…
This is why they were instructed to stick to *no debate*
The moment they open their mouths the car crash begins.
It’s started already.
The news this evening gave a podium to a select group of bemused/ aggrieved youngish trannies.
Ever so representative..
No cool-aid hair in sight, bare minimum piercings, messaging on clothes or aggressive tattoos on show; simply quiet and reserved conversation.
Not exactly what we have been put through listening to for years..
Stonewall money and mentoring in evidence so very very soon after the event..
No, it’s not going away and governments mealy mouthed crap that they have always respected single sex space is a blatant lie.
Then the “how do you disentangle it all” non argument?
Well if you put it in place then you can put it back to rights again. It’s not after all as if you aren’t paid enough is it?
Earn it or eff off..
I’m still jumping for joy. Like the brave and passionate and resilient activists in Women for Scotland and their fight, on our behalf, for women and girls. They have shown us how to fight the good fight and I am immensely grateful to them. Bravo.
And bravo to you Stuart for your exceptional and stellar journalism in exposing the cult of gender ideology. Sturgeon and her cabal are misfits and neurotics at best and demoniacs at worst. Their common denominator is their mediocrity. They all go down, but never see it coming.
It’s a state of mind. They’re like fascists. There’s no mystery to them. At the core they are bullies and they’re cruel. Sturgeon, with her rictus that looks like a smile, but isn’t, seems to have gone AWOL. SNP? F.T.S. Fuck That Shit.
So Gomershall went full Shona Robison then!
There is no evidence that predatory men etc etc.
Except 75% of trans identified males in prison in England and Wales are sex offenders. So either a lot of predatory men are pretending or the trans section of the male population are much more of a danger to women than the non trans section. Either way single sex spaces should be single sex!
This is just another iteration of the not all men argument. We know not all men are a danger to women. Most are decent (though I do have my worries on porn culture and how it will affect boys growing up today) but unfortunately the bad ones don’t come with neon signs announcing their danger! So good men stay out so that bad men stand out!
At the beginning of the video, the presenter had to attempt several times to stop that male trans making a complete fool of himself.
The presenter said it was because the male at the other side of the line could not hear. I question that.
Listening to the verbal diarrhoea, it becomes rather obvious that the reason why that male trans was speaking non-stop is because the moment he was stopped and asked to reason about the nonsense he had just said, the whole edifice of his argument, built on foundations of thin air, fell flat on its face.
I am one of those who believes these male trans activists know exactly their argument does not have a leg to stand on, therefore resource to non-stop verbal diarrhoea to put their point across without being interrupted and to exaggerate aggressiveness as a deterrent to potential scrutiny.
The male trans says: “I do not know if Isla Bryson is a trans woman or a man pretending to be a trans woman”.
Well, doesn’t the exact same apply to us? How do WE, women of Scotland know if that male in the video who claims to be trans is a male suffering from genuine gender dysphoria or simply an opportunistic man pretending to be one to place himself in a position of power to push this political trojan horse through, rip across the Scottish societal fabric with divisiveness to stop independence and expose women and children to serious harm?
If a male who identifies as a trans cannot recognise if another male who claims to be trans is faking it or not, how on earth are WE, women going to be able to determine that?
The short answer is we cannot. The only thing we see is a male dressed as a woman. And, no matter how thick the layer of make up is or how pretty the dress he is wearing is, or how realistic the wig, if wearing one, is, we can still see the anatomic features of a male, which, according to the law, must not be in females-only safe spaces. So what we see is a male pretending to be what is not and breaking the law. That is enough to trigger our fight-flight response every single time.
The male trans also says: “to discriminate against the entire population, the entire minority group across the UK, on the basis of one or two fringe cases is unacceptable”.
Right, I actually wonder if this male listens to himself or even engages his brain before regurgitating the script.
We are told that the proportion of real males suffering gender dysphoria is significantly less than a 1% of the whole population. Well, then, THAT in itself is a clear example of a “fringe” case among the population as a whole. So, sending back to this individual his own words:
“to discriminate against the entire female population, the entire UK woman population, which, by the way, is a majority, and put them at risk on the basis of a few fringe cases is completely unacceptable”.
I think it is disgusting that we women are expected to accept what this male clearly point-blank rejects and finds completely unacceptable for his very own subgroup.
If the “inconvenience” of not being able to invade the spaces belonging to the opposite sex putting the entire female population at risk is unacceptable for this male and his own fringe subgroup, then the inconvenience of having to accept any male who claims to be trans in our own safety spaces, putting all of us women at risk so this fringe group can make their fantasy a little bit more real, is even more unacceptable for us, which, by the way, are the majority.
It is completely unacceptable to expect that us women have to be put in constant fight-flight response mode every single time we need to go to the toilet, to a changing room or to a place that, we are told, is only for women but turns out that it is not because any self-entitled male pervert claiming to be a woman must be given access to.
I do not know what exactly makes this particularly self-entitled male think that, just because it is mainly males who are pushing and insist on this toxic ideology, women have to simply step aside and accept it. We do not. We will not.
Trans activists often claim that they are fighting against old fashion “patriarchy”. Well, I do not see how this claim holds any water, because all what I see from this “activism” is a crazier than ever push to further male dominance by pulverising female’s rights and rendering safe spaces worthless.
Male trans activists also claim that they are fighting the “stereotype” that gender is binary. But their actions do not agree with their claims. If they were seriously fighting the binary of gender, they would be pursuing toilets and safe spaces for THEMSELVES, not seeking to invade those for females only whilst maintaining the binary.
When you think about their arguments for any more than two seconds, and just how incongruent their claims and their actions are, you see they are built on foundations of air, which makes me question even more the real political motives behind this ideology.
I still would like to know exactly where the push for this clearly toxic ideology across every political construct has originated from, who/what funded it and what the real strategy and motives were.
What stands to the obvious to me, is that it is impossible for a fringe representing less than a 1% of the total world population to take over every public service, every government, every organisation as they have done without being empowered and funded by serious money and serious power. Well then, who are those entities and where are they based? What has the power to overrule governments and legislation from countries across the globe simultaneously as we have seen done?
The ruling of the English supreme court is a starting point. A very good and very strong one, but just the starting point. There is an awful lot to unpick to get to the bottom of this toxic ideology and its real agenda.
“the moment he was stopped and asked to reason about the nonsense he had just said, the whole edifice of his argument, built on foundations of thin air, fell flat on its face.”
Indeed so Mia, and in any such form of imposed cultural imperial illusion or colonial hoax the oppressor ends up being condemned by their own hypocrisy (much like the SNP elite), and here it remains the case that:
“…there is no oppressive reality which is not at the same time necessarily antidialogical, just as there is no antidialogue in which the oppressors do not untiringly dedicate theselves to the constant conquest of the oppressed” (Paulo Freire).
Which always brings us to the fascist aspect involved and noted elsewhere btl here, and more especially in what is a colonial (i.e. racist agin us Scots fowk) society more generally, where such imposed alien ideologies, hoaxes (the UK ‘Union’ etc) and associated dubious ‘values’ made widespread and entrenched within our nation’s social institutions must logically be transformed, swift-like, failing which oppression in all its various despicable forms will continue.
We can always rely on Baird to post his usual pile of shite. Colonialism/Oppressors/Fascists/Imperialism etc. A quote from some numpty, few have ever heard of, is always appropriate.The subject matter of the article basically ignored. Nothing ever changes. All written in a style that is incomprehensible.You seem to forget that it was SCOTTISH people who tried to impose this lunacy upon us!
Looking forward to seeing you stand for election Alf. Go on…..do it. Give us all a laugh.
“there is no antidialogue in which the oppressors do not untiringly dedicate theselves to the constant conquest of the oppressed”
That’s fine as far as it goes, Alf.
Still though, when the weapon the oppressors choose to untiringly dedicate themselves to using is a few hundred deluded blokes in frocks, it’s surely a scathing indictment of Scotland and the Scots that we couldn’t sort it out ourselves.
That in actual, cold, hard fact, we had to outsource the sorting of it out. Not holding out a lot of promise for us running our own country, is it? Of course, we have form, having outsourced our leadership to third-worldy Yousaf a couple of years back.
If I were you, I’d be so ashamed of our abysmal handling of this reality-denying, so-called externally enforced aberration, I’d keep quiet and try to rapidly move on.
But as I don’t subscribe to your belief that everything that happens in Scotland is the fault of colonialism, I’m resigned to having to constantly point out that this disaster has “Made In Scotland By The SNP And Endorsed By Indy Supporters” stamped all over it. Much like all the other disasters of the past decade.
A crying shame, but we can’t move on until the truth, however unpalatable, is acknowledged.
” it was SCOTTISH people who tried to impose this lunacy”
You perhaps need to check out who actually runs institutions in Scotland, aka ‘the establishment’, and its dominant ‘national’ allegiance, cultural values etc, which is not necessarily politicians, or ‘Scottish’ to a significant degree.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Alf is right, Chas: the oppression of women and children and the suppression of the Scots is related in terms of how these things are carried out. Have been saying this for so long, too. Colonization of a people or a sex class is basically, identical: the colonizer wants what the colonized has. It is always vicious, cruel and predatory,m and always c carried out by a privileged group/nation against another far less privileged group/nation.
Hatey: having been a life-long independence supporter, I agree with most of what you say here. This Scottish government has been so bad for Scotland; they have made us look like weak fools and simply ramped up the abuse we get on-line from those who believe that we are bloodsuckers. The total lack of statesmanship in all our parties says to me that we will embark on independence only to be overrun again by something ‘woke’, and, yes, the truth is unpalatable.
We need to oust every one of these ideologues from our public life before we can really think of moving on from this. Take a look at Ireland: it is a basket case because it has been exactly like us; virtue-signalling horse manure in every sphere of government and public service because they want to pay back the church for is oppression. Both nations are hurting only themselves – and women and children.
We can always rely on Chas to post his usual pile of shite.(fixed it for ye dickhead)
The unfunny thing about the allegations from the usual FAKE indy supporters is that the corrupt Scottish Administration is responsible for ALL this perverted and deviant lunacy as if THIS in some way illustrates that Scots are too stupid or perverted to become independent again
The FLAW in their celebrations of Scots bad and stupid is that the english governments of ALL stripes and ALL parties were overwhelmingly supportive of this deviancy and perversion, with EVERY english government organisation fully signed up and PROMOTING this lunacy including the VILE Bastard Broadcasting Cunts ,even today they are still non committal and vague about what they are going to do to address to rectify the problem, Stuart has already provided PROOF of english government ministers LIES and obfuscation
So fake indy supporters ca canny with yer celebrations and just remember it was SCOTTISH WOMEN who fought to defeat this abomination IMPOSED on us by ALL uk administrations and uk establishments
“you can’t tell which ones [men] are rapists by looking”
I’m increasingly starting to think that’s not true.
A heck of a lot of them are the loud, aggressive, violent men in dresses, lippy and heels.
The fact that this total airhead is a Scottish greens candidate is frightening
He will be up there with dross geer maggie chapperson and the green gnome
I hope NONE of these fruitcases never get near follyrood ever again
The majority of ‘Society’, whatever that is, were never going to accept that a man in a frock can somehow be a woman. It is that simple.
Politicians simply pandered to the vocal minority, as they do with multiple issues. Money, as always, played it’s part. As it does with everything.The overwhelmingly silent majority are irrelevant nowadays.
It might be a good idea to change the current Politicians for something better. Any ideas who?
I was on Thick-Tok on Thursday looking for Gen Z reaction to this ruling (Young people go to Tik-Tok and everybody else goes to YouTube).
I couldn’t be bothered registering so was only able to view a couple of clips. The clips I did see was embarrassingly staged greetin and snorters meltdowns with acting only seen on bad soap-operas.
The thing I did notice though is that these Transwomen, not doubt due to tens of thousands pounds of cosmetic surgery, are passable as woman.
The truth be told, when you go out and about and see these young, obviously biological woman, with their plastic surgery, tattooed eyebrows and garish makeup where they look like wax dolls, it is even more easier for these types of Transwomen to pass off as women.
If you contrast this with the day to day reality of Trans with the likes of “Ellie” Gomersall & Heather Herbert, there are some Transwoman that will be more accepted by society than others.
I see that some of these TikTok influencers which I had mentioned in my reply are included in the below link:
link to archive.is
Perhaps not discernible to men, PacMan, but women have an in-built radar for these things. I recall sitting in Waverley station, waiting for a train to arrive, and several of them passed by. The men were still men, no matter what they had done, and the women did not pass as men: too wee, fat hips, walked like women. Spotted them very easily. The very young, slim, gay boys who cross-dress and, tragically, think they are ‘trans’ (I think that Gomersall may be one and cannot ever admit it) can pass at a distance, but get closer and all kinds of mannerisms, etc., give them away, often exaggerated supposed female gestures that they could not master in a month of sundays.
They all know they are either male or female, but delude themselves. Gender dysphoria is vanishingly rare and is a sub species of body dysMorphia – a mental illness – in common with cutting, anorexia, etc., which is why they wanted self-ID and GRCs to be easier to obtain. Doctors would not recommend them if no dysphoria present. They have utilised every low and dirty trick in the book, have assaulted women, had men and women hounded out of their jobs, tried to prevent them from speaking and so on because they know – they know – that they have not one leg upon which to stand.
The vast majority – even the older “I just want to live my life in peace” kind have been breaching female boundaries for many a long year, and they were the pioneers, the vanguard for this latest manifestation of blatant and vicious misogyny. It is all about sex and laydee feelz, all of it, at ground and middle levels. The higher you go, the more that money makes an appearance.
It looks like the young Trans aren’t the only ones making a fool of themselves:
link to archive.is
The article then goes onto to talk about the implications of the ruling in the workplace.
Unless a Trans employee has a problem where they are running to the toilet every five minutes, that isn’t a problem.
In the modern office, which lets be honest about it is where Trans will be employed and not on building sites, if you work in front on a computer who should organise your workload so you are not looking at the screen to avoid eye problems as part of Health and Safety.
In practice that doesn’t work that way so this time away from screen is done by going to the coffee machine for a drink or a toilet break. If somebody is away a bit longer for a toilet break, it is a non issue.
If there is no disabled toilets in a building or is about 5 floors down, what have these DE&I consultants being doing where they are disadvantaging disabled people in their company?
It does seem to me that there those from outside the Trans community who are affected by this ruling where their cushy jobs are being threatened.
They could have campaigned for their own spaces long ago, as women had to do. Nah, it was so much easier to colonize women’s.
I find it very telling that the focus of many of these TV interviews have been trans ‘women’ and their take on the ruling. Has anyone from FWS been asked for their opinion? I saw the Maya Forstater interview. Seems off that women haven’t had much of a say.
All these liberal (liberal in the sense of American Liberalism/modern Democrat party ideology) reporters have either cheerleaded this Trans ideology on or kept silent on it. Now that it has went against them they don’t want to lose face, and potentially future career prospects, so they will fight to the death to try and change the narrative.
It’s simply sheer egotism where they don’t want to admit their were wrong.
It might be what you say PacMan.
But then again, the competition for audience and clicks across the media is intense. So called “car crash” TV is pure gold.
And there’s nothing more “car crash” than a bunch of obviously deranged blokes in drag, screaming and swearing and denying reality. Most ordinary people would happily watch this stuff, and even pay good money to be allowed to go and poke at it with sharp sticks.
No disrespect to the ladies of FWS, but we live in a time when the views of ordinary, decent, rational people can’t hold the attention of your average social media junkie. The providers of content have to pander to the demand for circuses, cabaret and “car crashes”.
@ John Main 18 April, 2025 at 6:36 pm
You are more likely closer to the truth.
In this instance, news outlets get more exposure and clicks by reporting the side of Transwomen. Those who support Trans will view their article and repost on the sites that that they views gaining more clicks for the news companies.
The same thing happens with those against Transwomen who will click on these sites due to outrage and then repost it on their sites to show how biased these news sites are.
The news outlets is the one who benefit the most as both sides of the argument clicks and share the website links.
This is a timely reminder as always when sharing links to MSM news sites to archive them so these companies don’t get the ad revenue caused by their manufactured outrage.
One more point. I have been making the point of making this a generational thing with Gen Z more progressive and the rest of us with a different view.
It is valid to a point where a few of Gen Z have been taking in by it but I would say on those TikTok clips I had viewed the other night, there was a lot of comments that was for the ruling.
There is also the point about how the popularity of Trans influencers on TikTok. As I mentioned, there are a lot who due to plastic surgery are more feminine looking but are those who view these clips watching them because they support them and the Trans Agenda or as you say, are watching them in the same way as those in the past watched fre@k shows in the past?
If it is the latter, that isn’t helpful both for society or for both sides of this controversial issue.
QW, I noticed that we were treated to these wailing ‘women’ ad nauseam but no real women – TV coverage playing silly games as usual.
People surely can’t take the risk of giving their 2nd vote to the GRReens next year for fear of getting even more clowns like this in our parliament alongside the ones we are already stuck with like Harvey, Greer, Slater and Chapman.
Actually, we cannot take the risk to give ANY vote to the Greens nor ANY vote to the SNP who, not just allowed this toxic ideology to fester, they actually funded it from our taxpayers’ purse, drove it through and abused their position of power to encourage it, to filter it down through every public service and organisation and to ram it down our throats.
Let’s not forget that Labour and Libdems (and some elements of the tories) also voted for this shite, helping it to pass through Holyrood. Who could ever forget Alex Cole Hamilton’s insult to every Scottish woman with his words “we did it for you, Beth”. This means we cannot risk giving ANY vote to any of those English parties either.
We should never reward failure, deliberate erosion of women’s and children’s rights and complete disregard and disrespect for the needs and wants of the people of Scotland, with our vote. Denying them all our vote is, in my view, the correct course of action here.
To use an Americanism, my hot take on this is that politicians have boxed themselves in a corner with this Trans issues where they go against it, it is going to show how incompetent and morally bankrupt them are.
They have no choice to fight it and continue with the policy until they are kicked out of office. It is only going to stop until there is a reaction by the electorate that they don’t want these policies.
Spot on, Mia. They all need to go. None of it was a mistake. They did this deliberately to pander to fools because they were scared – yes, scared – of being cancelled by this vicious, malicious, malign, nasty mob of hard left Marxists and post structuralists. Yet, they sat back and let decent men and women be cancelled without lifting a finger to help them. It was all quite deliberate for every single one of them.
It’s good these transnarcissists got somewhat stopped by common (common ?) sense. They’re angry, delusional, narcissistic men – albeit in a frock, wig, hair-extensions, make up and some hormone jabs.
They’re still men and probably that % of the worst men are in greater concentration in any narcissist community where men are.
Now, we’ll see if the Feminista decide to support women from the well paid ivory towers of Feminist and academic posts – only kidding, of course they won’t they hate men and women in almost equal measure.
Indeed.
This is in response to your last paragraph.
And of course there is one prominent individual that fits the bill entirely: misanthropic to her fingertips.
I lived my whole life without having to take seriously a man becoming a woman – and I still don’t because every cell in every body will be XX or XY.
Despite what some BTL posters on here think, the vast majority of men don’t rape, physically assault women or treat them as second class citizens.
Us men does this not only because it is right thing to do because this is the right thing to do but also because we live in a modern, liberal (not American Liberalism which champions laissez-faire social liberalism where anything goes) democracy where we have laws and rules that govern our society who determines how we live and behave towards each other.
Contrast this with these Trans Rights Activists whom when confronted with a reasonable ruling which says both (biological) woman and transwomen have rights that needs to be protected decry this as fascism and N@zism.
If we want to live in a civilised society then we need to follow the rules. Of course these rules aren’t rigid and can be changed or modified through the democratic route but we simply can’t have a society where individuals only follows the rules when it is suits them.
It seems strange that these Trans Rights Activists shout about how they feel threatened and scared of this ruling where there are other laws to protect them yet are against the same laws that protect woman from feeling scared and threatened.
Going a bit off-topic.
The TV show isn’t aimed at me and I wouldn’t watch it anyway even if it was but this years Celebrity Big Brother piqued my interest because Hollywood star Mickey Rourke was participating.
As I said I didn’t watch the show but I watched clips on it and followed it in showbiz articles. The impression I got was that he was an individual whom is well known to hold certain views and a short temper to stick up for them and was put into a reality show with mostly much younger participants whom has alternative views and the result who be conflict.
The other impression I had got that he was there as a sucker to be put on a cultural revolution ‘struggle session’ situation to be ridiculed and humiliated by these younger and older progressive participants as the TV shows producers though this would appeal to their younger, progressive audience.
I can’t help but feel that this article from an American Showbiz site that doesn’t have a perspective on British society or it’s politics confirms this.
I’ve included the link to this site as well as the archived version as the archived one doesn’t link to the video clip links which gives context to this:
link to tmz.com
link to archive.is
Had forgotten to mention that the context of this in relation to this article is that if I am correct, it shows how the ‘culture wars’ are being stoked by the progressive side of the entertainment business which causes the Trans issue and other ones to be so polarised and toxic.
One thing that I have possibly learned over these past few painful years of politics, is that what one will have come to believe to be true, on balance, depends on whose media narrative that one thinks is more likely to be nearer the truth because all of the facts are just not available to us mere mortals. I only say this in passing because it is all too clear what whoppers are told or omitted by the MSM. The ground has well and truly shifted here.
After yesterday’s historic ruling, it really was noticeable that the Guardian comic’s only mention of this world changing ruling was a small opinion piece ironically arguing for ‘care and compassion’ to be shown towards ‘trans people’ (I say ironically, because as everybody knows trans activists are full of care and compassion toward other human beings). So, here we have a liberal narrative clearly pretending that yesterday just didn’t happen, and that maybe it was just down to a glitch in the cosmic Walter Mitty order of things.
There was also another risible opinion piece by a former Hungarian MEP, Katalin Cseh, talking the usual tosh about loss of freedom etc. Now in Hungary, I do know that Orbán (together with his cronies) is a corrupt politician of the highest order, however the idealistic Hungarian kids have no idea what awaits them further down the ideological bureaucratic track, should LGBTQ+ ‘freedoms’ be acceptable. The democratically elected Hungarian Parliament voted overwhelmingly (70%+) in favour of banning assembly of this ‘grouping’ under the Pride banner. All this ironically of course in a country where there is no equivalent of he or she in their non-gendered language (they just use ? as third person singular and you are left with only the context to determine the sex of the personal pronoun). I’ll leave you to work out all the ramifications of that one.
It has become an often repeated meaningless catchphrase used by the trans lobby saying that this 88 page legal ruling by the supreme court means ‘a loss of freedom’. After all, it is young peoples’ minds that they are after, and the more naive and gullible the better.
Guardian “comic*?
A quick google search reveals at least 15 Guardian articles about the trans decision.
1.Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules
2.UK supreme court to rule on legal definition of a woman
3.Thursday briefing: What a landmark supreme court ruling on biological sex does – and doesn’t – mean
4.A huge reset’: gender-critical activists and trans rights campaigners react to supreme court ruling
5.What does the UK supreme court’s ruling on definition of ‘women’ mean?
6.New rules for public bodies expected ‘by summer’ after UK gender ruling
7.Trans activists accuse UK equalities chief of ‘overreach’ for suggesting bans
8.This is a very tough day for trans people – with a long legal road ahead to right this wrong
9.British Transport Police amends strip-searching policy after supreme court gender ruling
10.The supreme court didn’t rule on the definition of ‘a woman’ – this is what its judgment does mean
11.How will UK judgment on legal definition of womanhood affect policy?
12.At last, a moment of clarity – the UK supreme court has upheld the rights of women
13.If Britain is now resetting the clock on trans rights, where will that leave us?
14.UK politics: Badenoch calls for broader review of equality and gender recognition laws – as it happened
15.NHS warned it must change guidance on single-sex spaces after court ruling
‘After yesterdays historic ruling’ – by after yesterday what is meant is simply today. Verneer zilcho.
@ agent x
In regards to the Guardian comic, I wonder which one of the articles you mentioned gets the most clicks?
Pedant alert! Sorry, but the question mark above has replaced the word, o with two lines above it, (pronounced ‘oo’ which means: he, or she, or it.
So ther.
? (i.e. the letter o with a double acute accent) is the 27th letter in the Hungarian alphabet. It is used with verbs, if at all, as emphasis rather than to signify the sex of the verb’s subject, since it is a verb’s suffix that does that.
Pedant alert yet again! I am certainly no linguist, but there is definitely no specific gender of the verb’s subject in Hungarian. I’ve only been doing this for 4 years now. And they really ain’t ‘acute’ accents over the o either! They are two vertical lines, but probably just acutes are used to make keyboards and printing simpler! Acutes must be some form of French imperialist colonisation…
“3 April 2024
Scotland has introduced a new hate crime law which seeks to protect various categories of people from hatred and prejudice.
Transgender identity is included as a protected characteristic in the legislation., external
However biological sex is not, to the dismay of some campaigners for women’s rights, including the Harry Potter author JK Rowling.”
link to bbc.co.uk
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Remember this – women were omitted from the hate crime bill!
The Scottish Parliament (NS, I think), was to introduce a mysogeny Bill to protect women. What happened to it?
“Information requested
An updated position on the timeline of the misogyny bill in particular, when this will be introduced.
Response
As set out by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs on 7 February 2025, in response to PQ S6W-34000 from Liam McArthur MSP, the answer to your question is that the Working Group on Misogyny and the Criminal Law recommended the creation of ‘gendered’ laws which specifically provide protection to women and girls.
There is currently a case before the Supreme Court concerning the definition of ‘women and girls’. It will be important to carefully consider the implications, if any, of the judgment in that case for the proposed Bill before any Bill might be introduced in Parliament.”
link to gov.scot
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The above was in response to an FOI request.
Because they would have had to deal with misogyny. They simply do not want to do that because it is so ingrained in our society and every other society on Earth that questions would have had to be asked about WHY. Just as they know that much of the ‘trans’ ideology is based on misogyny and sexual feelz but they can’t admit it, they know that misogyny will have to be faced up to and dealt with eventually because it is entirely based on the female sex-class being subordinate. We are not yet ready to admit that we have a real problem let alone set about trying to solve it, and to solve it will mean monumental societal changes for men, in particular, across the entire globe. They were going to include ‘trans’ identified men in the prospective Misogyny Bill. It will be scrapped now with the excuse that they can’t include ‘trans’ identified men, so, ‘logically’, biological women should also be excluded.
Having a better car than your neighbour is also ingrained in society. Girls only want money. What Law do you suppose that falls under. Then there’s the murky waters of my child is better than yours, you know it goes on and on and on..
Mark Beggan: what?
@ Lorn.
Another reason why the Misogyny Bill isn’t going to be introduced could be that it will disproportionately affect men on a whole lot of issues including those who support women’s rights.
It will kill identity politics stone dead. Politicians know that and they are not in the habit of killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
“Scottish Green equalities spokesperson Maggie Chapman urged the Scottish Parliament to resubmit the gender recognition reform bill for royal assent.
She also claimed the court’s ruling had undermined the UK government’s argument for blocking the legislation.
Chapman told BBC Scotland News the Supreme Court ruling could have a “chilling effect” on human rights.
“We know that when you start to erode the rights of any one group, the rights of other groups are up for grabs too,” she said.
The Green MSP warned transgender people were “scared”.
She added: “If you prevent trans people from using public toilets, from using facilities like that, you’re saying they can’t come out, you’re saying they can’t be seen in society.” ”
link to bbc.co.uk
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Completely out of touch with reality.
Does this mean they are going to have stay at home and stop their attacks on woman. That’s a win win in my book. And as far as creating ‘spaces’ then the answer is sorry No we’re skint after blowing the cash on court cases. Boo hoo nevermind.
‘completely out of touch with reality’ no change there then.
How in the name of the wee man that wummin was ever voted in is a matter of major puzzlement to me, only explained by the voting system with which Scotland was lumbered.
Is Sturgeon dead?
Only from the neck up.
I thought it was from the waist down.
link to irishtimes.com
It seems that not only Scottish Greens are paedo linked
I do wonder if any of these mentally unstable ranting trans people on social media will now be charged with hate speech. After all, the angry, violent, hateful madness they are spewing like a garden hose is surely against the dictums and diktats of Humza’s comedy already-forgotten legislation.
Actually, I don’t wonder if they will be charged with hate speech. At all. We know why. Still, this has been a good social control and division mechanism for a few years, and there might well be some mileage left in it yet. Wouldn’t surprise me.
I do wonder if any of these mentally unstable ranting trans people on social media will now be charged with hate speech. After all, the angry, violent, hateful madness they are spewing like a garden hose is surely against the dictums and diktats of Humza’s comedy already-forgotten legislation.
Actually, I don’t wonder if they will be charged with hate speech. At all. We know why. Still, this has been a good social control and division mechanism for a few years, and there might well be some mileage left in it yet. Wouldn’t surprise me.
I never thought for one minute that Voodoo doll of Sturgeon would have worked. And there was me a doubting Thomas.
I’d like to know what legal basis judges had to force rape victims to refer to the man who raped them as she/her, backed up by the threat of the victim being imprisoned for contempt of court if they refused to comply. Were judges just complying with political pressure or did they seriously misinterpret the Equalities Act? Both possibilities are equally disturbing. Is there another plausible explanation?
That is a very interesting question. I would love to see one of these women sue a judge for the humiliation caused by being forced to call her rapist a woman.
It appears I have got this all wrong.
It was not the Scottish SNP that tried to bring this legislation on board in Scotland. It was actually the English. the ‘ establishment’ and is a direct result of colonisation.
How stupid am I? Apologies to Baird, Lorn and the twat. I genuinely thought it was the SNP, who, I mistakenly thought were Scottish politicians.
As the Rev and other authentic pro-independence bloggers (Grouse Beater, Barrhead Boy, Craig Murray, the late Iain Lawson etc) have been pointing out these past several years, and as postcolonial theory confirms:
“.. inside the nationalist parties, the will to break colonialism is linked with another quite different will: that of coming to a friendly agreement with it” (Fanon).
It is only when “the intellectual elements have carried out a prolonged analysis of the true nature of colonialism and of the international situation, they will begin to criticize their party’s lack of ideology and the poverty of its tactics and strategy”.
Which helps explain subsequent developments:
link to liberation.scot
Pish again Alf. At least you are consistent.
I actually had a look at the link to discover the names and number of the cranks, sorry freedom fighters in ‘Liberation.scot’. Unfortunately I could not find them listed anywhere without joining. Is it a secret or are they simply embarrassed to reveal who they are
Aye Alf, the SNP ‘elite’ serve as a typical example of Fanons characterisation of nationalist political parties particularly when we examine the eager manner in which Sturgeon, Swinney, Forbes, et al collaborated in gifting away at rock bottom rates access to our natural resources, ingratiating themselves with their perceived colonial ‘betters’ at Scotland’s cost.
There would appear to be a dearth of those ‘intellectual elements’ abroad within the SNP hence no capacity to challenge the status quo anywhere on the horizon.
Alf, wonder for a moment that this is not all an English plot but a fundamental flaw in the heart of Scottish independents. Where does any of the drive for trans stuff come from? Not just in Scotland, the England and the US? It comes from the left. The left is built on the concept of protecting underdogs. Poor workers, women, minorities, etc, etc. When the easier issues for the left are being tackled, what does the left do? It gets bored trying to solve the difficult problems for all. It seeks better underdogs. Eventually ordinary genetic Scots are not underdog enough and the left stops looking out for you over privileged moaners. Hail the new darling of the left, the weird.
That’s what the SNP is built on. It’s what Labour is built upon. It’s what your whole UN claim that Scotland is England’s underdog is built on. The irony is that you might have a better case with the UN is you claimed that Scotland needs to leave the UK to protect the rights of its trans sisters from nasty English judges.
Do the SNP really expect us to believe that all this mess was NOT of their own making? That the SNP have not for years been pushing their twisted philosophy? That they have somehow been trying to follow ‘bad Westminster’ rules? (…’honest, wasn’t us, the big boys made us do it?)…
…or has it all been an unfortunate ‘Bobby Ewing’ shower moment…it was all a dream…nothing to see here….’oh look, a unicorn!’…
Read some of the comments above from Baird, Lorn and the Twat.
It is not the fault of the SCOTTISH SNP. A big boy did it and ran away.
It all just looks like the usual mountain of chips on shoulders / blame the English for everything mantra, now couched as the playing of the colonial card (the new race card) that can be laid down at any time about literally anything.
Ironically it is also an example of Scottish cringe in action – Scots are so pathetic they have no agency of their own and follow their colonial masters around like lapdogs, their dumb and weak minds taken over Borg-like by the conniving but, by default, superior English bastards.
It is transparently desperate and deluded stuff that shows no faith, belief even, in Scotland and the Scots at all, yet at the same time claims it is somehow the truth that will lead to liberation.
We all accept that any day now the UN is going to phone up the king and tell him that Scotland is now a free state
Of course the first thing that will be done is to double down on chicks with dicks
and then as they slowly screw stuff up they will need to find a scape goat
which of course
Will be the English
And I predict within a few years time voting will be strictly controlled to ensure no English parties can get into power
and there will be tens of thousands of folk in jail to stop the English from interfering with scotland
and by the English
I mean anyone who challenges the scottish government
aka
the SNP
Not even a moral vacuum , just a vacuum.
I’m told after Indy that all English media will be banned
That will include Jeremy Vine
Which I must admit is a small upside to indy
Potty mouth Mhairi Black is going full Tonto throwing teddy out the pram over at the qwertyNationalhurty.
Feel the real hatred..
Of course, having had their biological status recognised by those great minds in England’s Supreme Court, the next challenge for the gender-critical movement will be to argue against the basic biological function of wome.
Farage/ReformUK have repeatedly stated their intention to repeal the Equality Act and withdraw from the ECHR. They repeatedly promote the ideals of heterosexual marriage, child bearing, and “traditional” families.
The Supreme Court has handed those who who would have women forced to remain in unhappy and abusive marriages, forced to breed for the nation – to remove the need for immigrant labour and for ALL women to be responsible for the “family”.
Equal pay, equality of work place opportunities, will be no more under a fundamental right-wing British white Christian regime.
The inconvenient natural minorities, gay/bixeual women, women unable to conceive, the disabled etc, will all be picked off one by one.
It’s a tale so familiar that virtually no-one has excuse to be unaware of how hysteria over a tiny minorty of citizens can lead to to a cul-de-sac of horror and inhumanity.
Then again, the above could be complete rubbish and the present breakdown of globalisation being replaced by extreme right-wing populists across Europe and the West we are witnessing, is a precursor to a future of milk and honey for humankind.
Maybe we all need to consider our own minority opinions, fetishes, donations choices, Twitter likes/dislikes, just on the chance that these may not comply with the new world order, where Presidents idealise about becoming God’s Representative on Earth and provincial bankers slaver at the feet of idiotic oligarchs.