Frank wrote on Feb 2
nd, 2023 at 1:53pm:
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Trans women are women" is a lie.I would go further and say that it is an evil and pernicious lie. What today we call trans women are not women at all, but men – except in a microscopically small number of cases where there genuinely is biological doubt. That doesn’t mean that they should be treated with unpleasantness and hostility, but it does mean that we should stop kidding ourselves. And by ‘we’, I mean ‘we’. Here’s a sentence from the BBC’s coverage of the Isla Bryson story: ‘A former classmate of transgender rapist Isla Bryson has said she feels “sick” after learning of her crimes.’ And here’s the Evening Standard: ‘The Scottish First Minister addressed the row over where Isla Bryson, 31, from Clydebank, should be imprisoned after being found guilty of two rapes carried out when she was a man.’
Pretty much every newspaper followed suit. They referred to Bryson as a ‘she’ or a ‘her’ – and have continued to do so.
But Bryson is not a she or a her. He is a man in a cheap wig and some lippy. Aside from being a lie, this is also doublethink. And it is only by employing doublethink that the ludicrous agenda pursued by what is, in the end, a very small proportion of the population is enabled to advance. It is the old cliché: tell a lie for long enough and people will start believing it. How the media reports such stories is important – and the journos concerned should know that their first duty is to the truth. It does not matter how much they might wish we could all be whatever we want to be and be treated as such. That does not accord with the facts. There is no such thing as ‘my truth’ as distinct from ‘the truth’.
And one more thing. An individual does not own, or have control, over the pronouns used to describe him or her. Nor does the government, or the police, have any right to impose upon us a form of grammar which directly contradicts the truth. Address this issue and the madness might soon come to an end.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/02/when-fantasy-meets-reality/