The Guardian is hiding the truth about trans
by Suzanne Moore, Telegraph:
[…] The wheels have been coming off the bus of so-called “gender ideology” for some time, though if you only read certain newspapers, saw certain comedians or watched only the BBC you would scarcely know that. Censorship is too strong a word to use about how the subject of trans rights are covered. It is more that any conflict with women’s rights are dismissed, ignored or deemed “transphobic”.
If I declared myself a man tomorrow, had my breasts removed and an unfeasible phallus fashioned out of flesh from my arm, I would still be called transphobic. The invisible committee of the righteous has decided that my standing up for women and my belief in biology makes me so. This is why I left my former paper – so I could write as I wish. This is why my former colleague Hadley Freeman has also left, after spending her adult life there. Yesterday, she gave a compelling interview on Woman’s Hour in which she talked about the subjects she was not allowed to write about, such as anti-Semitism and the trans issue.
Freeman, who I hardly knew at the time, stood up for me when 330 staff wrote a virtue-signalling letter wanting to stop “transphobia” at The Guardian. In the column that set them off, I had asked about the huge uptick in the number of teenage girls (often autistic, with eating disorders and a history of self-harming) wanting to transition. Freeman had the guts to speak publicly about what she thought was right.
Many other colleagues did and still do send messages of support. Privately. My respect for them diminishes by the day. Alongside these messages, I get threats and am told that I am responsible for the “genocide” of trans people. Facts don’t matter. There were, in actuality, no trans people murdered in Britain last year. There were, however, between two and three women killed every week.
What I feel most upset about is the absolute dereliction of basic journalism by the Left-wing media. The first lie is that there is no conflict between trans rights and women’s rights, and no harm ever caused by self-identification. In truth, there is a conflict – and it is ripping apart the SNP, whose leader, Nicola Sturgeon, backs a Bill that would make it easier for people to legally change gender without a medical diagnosis. The issue has also divided the Greens and, in effect, ended the Women’s Equality Party. In private, half of Labour do not think that women can have a penis; they just won’t say it publicly.
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