Thought-policing: the ‘trans guide’ for MoJ staff is nonsense on stilts
by Ian Acheson, CapX:
Dominic Raab might have been hoping for some weekend respite after the recent bullying allegations against him. But while the Justice Secretary sought to get on the front foot with measures to tackle extremism in prisons, trans activists in his own department were doing their level best to cut him off at the knees.
The story centres on an internal guide sent out to all MoJ staff on official email channels from an officially recognised activist network, ‘Pride in Prisons and Probation’ or PiPP, which was leaked to The Telegraph. This handy document, published for ‘Trans awareness week’, seeks to thought-police prison and probation staff who indulge in ‘gender critical’ behaviour – which in this context means the unspeakable heresy of saying biological sex is immutable and binary.
This is a bit of a shock to those of us who believed that this censorious nonsense had been put to bed by the Forstater vs CGD Europe employment tribunal appeal – which confirmed that so-called ‘gender critical’ beliefs were protected under the Equality Act 2020. And if the idea that stating people cannot imagine themselves into a different sex needs explicit legal protection seems deranged to you, you’re going to need a lie down for the next bit.
For the MoJ’s trans guide – published as ‘official sensitive’, probably in a vain attempt to make it sound official and deter leaking – says in clear terms that phrases like ‘protecting women and girls’ is a ‘coded’ ‘dog whistle’ designed to equate trans women with predators. This will be news to Rishi Sunak, who recently made protecting women from male predation a central feature of his premiership.
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