The ‘trans’ debate is far from being a niche issue

ScotPAG's Convenor summarises the insidious effects of gender ideology

The fallout from the Supreme Court ruling reveals the telling outcome that when a spurious ideology is found out, it regresses to banal and hysterical tantrums. There is a simple truth in the findings of the Supreme Court and that is, that the Equality 2010 Act is and always was based on biology and the immutability of male and female sex.

What happened subsequently over the last fifteen years, was a major overreach by extremist activists in interpreting the law. Activists deliberately promoted across all our institutions, the bizarre notion that humans can change sex and that some humans are ‘born in the wrong body’. There was and is no ‘toxic debate’. All toxicity came from one direction. Any attempts at truth-telling were met with, ‘no debate’ and violent threats.

The  insidious infiltration of gender ideology into our schools, hospitals, prisons and public life is not about a ‘tiny vulnerable minority’. It is a major authoritarian movement which attempted to change language so that men could be called women, language relating to women erased, and children brainwashed to validate the whole process. We were instructed in what we could say and not say and many individuals lost their jobs and livelihoods.

What many of our leaders seem to have failed to realise is that while ‘trans’ people exist, it is an amorphous term which means a muddled range of human behaviours many of them associated with fetishes. Those individuals calling themselves ‘trans’ are not a third type of person, they are male or female, just like the rest of us.

Gender ideology is far from being niche, it has wasted millions of taxpayers’ money in tribunals and court cases. It has harmed hundreds of children and families by encouraging children to believe in regressive stereotypes and that they can change sex. It has allowed women boxers to be punched in the face by men; it has put men in women’s prisons and caused havoc in our NHS. It has created disquiet amongst many public service personnel and has eroded general public trust. It told us that lesbians could have a penis and has increased homophobia.

And it has created safeguarding issues for vulnerable children in care. It is a blight on our culture and society and the sooner our politicians and leaders in public life consign this insidious movement to the bin the better.

Carolyn Brown 

ScotPAG Convenor