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The suffragettes must be turning in their graves at the state of modern British womanhood, or rather its perception by everyone else. Right now, we’re holding our breath to see whether the judges of the Supreme Court can actually define a woman.
That’s right, a woman. Not quantum physics, you’d think. Not the origins of the universe. But a woman. Something a toddler can do. So how have we got here?
It’s thanks to the Scottish government’s ludicrous insistence that biological men (the only type of men you might well think) should be treated as women by public institutions – including public health bodies – if they so desire.
The -run government, which is clearly bonkers, believes a person’s sex is determined not biologically at birth but by a – a piece of paper that ignores the very obvious reality dangling (or not dangling) between one’s legs. Ergo by merely ‘feeling’ like the opposite sex, a man can have access to spaces that women have fought for for decades.
Campaigning gender-critical groups like For Women Scotland (supported by ) disagree and have sought a judicial review which is where we came in.
The Scottish government claims this is all vital for the sake of gender equality. But what is equal about a woman being forced to share a prison cell with a man, even a twice-convicted rapist, or having to accept men into previously safe-spaces like domestic of sexual violence shelters or rape services.
Make no mistake – this is no trivial matter. Sex is so fundamental to our existence that it is found in every single cell in the human body. Yet here we are. You can’t help but wonder when we all lost our collective minds.
The same mind virus that has infected Scottish politicians is sweeping through the rest of our public bodies. Not even the horrifying revelations of the Cass review, which revealed how nine-year-old children were receiving puberty blockers, or even a convicted male rapist being put in a female prison, is enough to stop the madness.
Every day, there is another news story defending the indefensible. Unsurprisingly, the is the latest institution to have found itself in hot water over its The Beeb didn’t pick American player Sophia Smith, who helped her team win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics and was her league’s top scorer last year.
Nor did they choose Aitana Bonmatí, a Spanish player who was awarded the in 2023 and 2024 and the Best FIFA Women’s Player Award for the 2022–23 season.
No, the Beb instead went with , a player who twice failed sex verification tests and was left out of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in 2022 for high testosterone levels (a phenomenon typically associated with men).
Now, this is the same organisation that refused to call a terrorist organisation. So, I wouldn’t put anything past them. But this is just a slap in the face. And to make matters worse, the International Olympic Committee is sticking to its 2021 guidelines on gender identity and sex variations, arguing that “athletes are not excluded solely on the basis of their transgender identity or sex variations”. That is gibberish for, “we don’t care if we destroy women’s sports”. However, the madness doesn’t stop there.
The British Transport Police (BTP) is also facing backlash over new guidance that allows trans officers to strip-search women. But only if they have a GRC. I’m sure millions of women feel relieved that the only men who can intimately search them are ones with a meaningless piece of paper. It doesn’t take a genius to see what is going on.
Ladies, we are being trolled. This gender nonsense is no longer the quaint obsession of the bone-idle, privileged or the mentally unwell. There are real-world consequences for radical gender ideology preached on social media, and women are bearing the brunt.
When was the last time you heard of convicted transmen rapists in male prisons? How many examples are there of transmen winning sports medals at the expense of their male counterparts? This perversion is only affecting women’s prisons, women’s shelters, women’s sports and women’s toilets. Women like JK Rowling and Sharron Davies must no longer be outliers in this fight against anti-scientific rubbish.
It’s time to put a stop to this once and for all. If not, future generations will look back at this period in our history and see how much we failed women.
As JK Rowling said, if men can be women, then there is no such thing as a woman.
I never thought we would need a revival of the suffragettes in 2024 – but with the current direction of travel, we have no choice.