An excellent piece in the current edition of The Spectator. The start of the piece below, it’s good to see the mention of Professor Jordan Peterson:
I’ve had it with the Conservatives. For me, and I know I’m not the only one, the final straw was the announcement at the weekend that the Equalities Minister Justine Greening wants to change the law so that people are free to specify their gender on their birth certificate regardless of medical opinion. What were they thinking, Greening and the various senior party bods who supported this decision, including, apparently, the Prime Minister? Actually, I think we can guess. They were thinking: ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn. His young followers seem to like this LBGBLT — how do the initials go again? — malarkey so perhaps we’d better get with it too.’ And: ‘Nasty party detox. Just like gay marriage did, this will help rid us of all those ghastly reactionary grassroots supporters who are ruining our image.’ And: ‘Compassion. We need to show compassion to oppressed minorities because that’s the kind thing to do.’
If you want to see the ‘kindness’ fallacy kicked into touch, I recommend you google Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychology professor at the University of Toronto who has become the voice of the resistance to the extreme political end of the trans-gender movement. Have a look, for example, at the debate he had with a fellow Toronto professor, A.W. Peet, over his uncompromising stance on ‘non-binary’ pronouns.
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Thanks – an excellent article, as you say. One of the worst aspects of the current transgender mania is the way that doctors have been intimidated into silence.
It’s also good that Delingpole referenced Jordan Peterson. Postmodernism forms the ideological backdrop to this. Only by viewing gender as socially constructed can politicians even think about the changes Delingpole describes in this article. Ignoring biological realities will, however, not be tenable in the long run. Another name for political correctness is lies.
There are signs that the tide is slowly turning in philosophy. There is the ‘New Realism’ movement associated with Markus Gabriel in Germany and Maurizio Ferraris of Italy, which accepts the reality of objects as well as observers’ impressions of them; and the so-called Speculative Realism of Quentin Meillassoux in France, which aims at descrbing the world prior to all human access. These figures are amongst the most talked-about in philosophy today.
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James Delingpole has form when it comes to writing plain good sense, not least about the ‘global warming’ scam with which the political elite hoped to panic us.
This would be the same elite who were bought and paid for lackies of the e.u. of course.
I believe James used to write for the Telegraph before sensibly leaving the sinking lefty feminist rag that has clearly set it’s sights on poaching Grauniad readers who found that organ not radical enough.
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The bottom line is that trans people are mentally ill. A Professor McHugh from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore has said the same thing. At no time are their underlying issues addressed, they see a gender counsellor not a psycho-therapist, and from memory their suicide rate is around 75%. On that basis alone they should never but put under any pressure.
They are tragic cases and deserve pity; but so-called gender dysphoria should remain an illness and any legal protection they receive should be as being disabled by reason of a mental health condition.
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Not sure if it might be better described as a physical disorder than a mental illness. Transgenderism is rare, and is caused by hormones in the womb, as are many other disorders. To anyone interested in this issue, I recommend ‘We Are Our Brains’ by a leading Dutch neuroscientist, Dick Swaab.
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As I understand it, people with that particular issue have been catered for, both medically and legally, for a long time, and they are a separate category of person from the only too articulate – and aggressive – trans lobby. Lady Colin Campbell is one such person and she wrote a book about her experiences.
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Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Michelle Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, on the subject of transgender ideology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zikm1jyU3g). She makes a number of interesting statements, including at 1:10 “sex is hardwired from before birth and it cannot change.”
Perhaps Justine Greening might like to debate gender policy with Ms Cretella.
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Having read James Delingpole’s ‘Spectator” article in full, this writer agrees 100% with all he says, from start to finish, including his observations on the present sorry state of the Conservative Party and on transgenderism itself.
It’ll be interesting to see if even one of the 650 members of the House of Commons will stand up in the House and openly tell the Government that what they’re proposing is lunacy, pure and simple, and, furthermore, would amount to a Voyeur’s Charter – not to mention, among other things, its implications for women’s sports, as Mr Delingpole points out. Talk about the gods first making mad those whom they wish to destroy!
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