Jo this is all so depressing. You were the reason I started the OU Criminology and Psychology course. I assumed, wrongly, that the Supreme Court judgement would make a real difference.
Thank you for continuing the fight. I am now. Volunteering in our local ( male) prison. All of your insights re criminology/power etc so valuable but so angry about all the other stuff!!!
You all in the UK have a much stronger social contract than we do in the States, but if indeed the gender cult has broken it, as it seems, the legal avenue will indeed be your only effective pathway for change. You will have to sue them every step of the way, for every increment of change to actual policy, and sue them again when they ignore the policy in practice. They will have to be dragged kicking and screaming.
Even the implied threat of legal liability won't by itself be enough to compel them at first, until there are enough cases that even the left-leaning media can't pretend they don't exist, and the captured institutions start hearing what's actually happening in the courts.
While local authorities such as mine are still listing "gender" as a protected characteristic in their job specifications (I checked yesterday) we have a long way to go.
Our institutions must follow the Law. They just have to. Wouldn’t it be great if we women all just went on strike, down tools, wherever we are: home or work whenever and however this injustice reared its head…the UK / world would grind to a sudden and significant halt. THEN we’d have widespread ‘aha’ and justice and change. 🎯
Women have consistently been more supportive of trans rights than men. In the NHS Fife case, almost all the people who were called as witnesses to explain the decisions they had made against Sandie Peggy were female.
Now that's interesting because I'm not surprised at the resistance. I feel the ideological divide that has gripped politics and institutions (especially HE) on this issue now constitutes pillars of stone as it were: right and wrong, not necessarily left and right if you see what I mean (smile).
Totally agree and for me thats what makes it so sociologically interesting. How on earth did this 'luxury belief' become a pillar of stone? I mean I know Stonewall has a lot to do with it but...
Jo this is all so depressing. You were the reason I started the OU Criminology and Psychology course. I assumed, wrongly, that the Supreme Court judgement would make a real difference.
Thank you for continuing the fight. I am now. Volunteering in our local ( male) prison. All of your insights re criminology/power etc so valuable but so angry about all the other stuff!!!
Thank you for your lovely comments. But yes, the fight still goes on....
I am so sorry.
You all in the UK have a much stronger social contract than we do in the States, but if indeed the gender cult has broken it, as it seems, the legal avenue will indeed be your only effective pathway for change. You will have to sue them every step of the way, for every increment of change to actual policy, and sue them again when they ignore the policy in practice. They will have to be dragged kicking and screaming.
Even the implied threat of legal liability won't by itself be enough to compel them at first, until there are enough cases that even the left-leaning media can't pretend they don't exist, and the captured institutions start hearing what's actually happening in the courts.
While local authorities such as mine are still listing "gender" as a protected characteristic in their job specifications (I checked yesterday) we have a long way to go.
Oh bloody hell!
Our institutions must follow the Law. They just have to. Wouldn’t it be great if we women all just went on strike, down tools, wherever we are: home or work whenever and however this injustice reared its head…the UK / world would grind to a sudden and significant halt. THEN we’d have widespread ‘aha’ and justice and change. 🎯
Women have consistently been more supportive of trans rights than men. In the NHS Fife case, almost all the people who were called as witnesses to explain the decisions they had made against Sandie Peggy were female.
Plus ca change!
Ain't that the case! Formal v substantive and all that. Although even I am surprised at political and institutional resistance.
Now that's interesting because I'm not surprised at the resistance. I feel the ideological divide that has gripped politics and institutions (especially HE) on this issue now constitutes pillars of stone as it were: right and wrong, not necessarily left and right if you see what I mean (smile).
Totally agree and for me thats what makes it so sociologically interesting. How on earth did this 'luxury belief' become a pillar of stone? I mean I know Stonewall has a lot to do with it but...