Why Women Can’t Wheesht

I mainly don’t claim to speak for anyone other than myself, but do know that hundreds of thousands of women and girls worldwide are eternally grateful for the efforts of Trina Budge, Marion Calder and Susan Smith. They found within their hearts courage and tenacity to challenge a warped ideology the impact of which would be to jeopardise the dignity and safety of Scotland’s women and girls and our rights to single sex services.

Good men stay out so that bad men stand out. That’s it in a nutshell. But it took in the 21st century in Scotland, an allegedly enlightened nation, the efforts of three determined women with supporters of both sexes to bring that case to the highest court in the land against the opposition of a government devoid of common sense and empathy. A government elected by a majority of Scots who now despair at its wrong mindedness and the fear, intolerance, hatred and division that policy created.

Lest it need repeated, women and girls are at risk from male predators. They pretend to be vulnerable damaged souls, using the disguise of trans status to mask the dangers they present. This has led to males in Scottish women’s prisons, wards, refuges and changing rooms. We have observed the distasteful spectacle of an infamous pair of leggings disguised as budgie smugglers adorned by a pink puff jacket. Vanity, thy name is woman – or Isla Bryson. The answer of course is to provide spaces for trans identifying males. But they don’t want that – they prefer the power obtained from invading women’s places against the wishes of women. Telling in the extreme. Male dominance writ large. Jim Spence called it #Tadgergate and he was and is right. 

More telling though is the conduct of those men, those male politicians who tell women that they are bigoted for arguing against permitting males in female spaces; Alex Cole-Hamilton who ‘did it for Beth’ or Keith Brown Depute Leader of the SNP who argued that Isla Bryson, a double rapist, somehow had a right to a cell in a prison for women. A man who had violated women in the most awful way. There remain men in women’s prisons in Scotland today; we’ve a CEO of the Scottish Prison Service who justifies this. What utterly dangerous piffle. It is known that one such trans identifying male prisoner – a man in other words – was recently convicted of an assault upon a female officer. In the most ridiculous way we also understand Police Scotland enable self identification. That is not the law of Scotland but those required to uphold it make it up as they go along. Would that Police Scotland had as many pages of training and advice for the disabled as they do for trans but that’s a story for another day.

Perhaps even worse may be the two faced rank hypocrisy of a Scottish government claiming to seek to address rising sex crimes, delays in prosecutions and disappointments for innocent victims. One cannot in all conscience promote a policy to eradicate violence against women and girls when the official definition of female within the Scottish government and all of its arms includes men. When a man ran a rape crisis centre, called fearful women bigots and enabled sex offenders to participate in women’s groups. When schools were given guidance providing boys with access to girls toilets and showers. When worried parents were silenced, overruled and vilified. 

When a First Minister is asked if a rapist is a man or a woman and answers that this person is a rapist all credibility is lost, forever. A similar position applies to those social workers and children’s panel members who unquestioningly affirm children with gender issues; to have to sit in a children’s panel hearing when the chair asks the male child to confirm the use of female pronouns unquestioningly is shameful beyond tolerance. Especially so when the waiting list for ASD assessment and the like is over two years.

I was an SNP member for decades and a supporter since childhood. Its capture by perverse views defies belief. My faith in Scotland’s legal system has been sorely tested in recent years; whatever the SC decides though we all know what a woman is and is not. With honesty and decency, regardless of the Court’s decision, which will be legal more than it may be practical or even real, Scotland badly deserves an immediate reset of values and intent. The gender wars diverted us from the priority – it is #IndependenceNothingLess and the damage done by the gender ideologues requires binned forthwith. However, those who do not agree with me on the constitution equally require decent representation; promotion of falsehood will never be that. Scotland’s people all deserve far better.