Famous author JK Rowling went full mask off Trans Exterminationist Reactionary Fascist today after an employment tribunal ruled that no you shithead, transphobia is not a protected belief.
Britain’s Conservative Party is notoriously riddled with TERFs and racists, who now have a legislative majority because this is hellworld.
EDIT 1
If you’re wondering, the Maya mentioned in the tweet is Maya Forstater, a tax attorney who decided to deliberately be a shithead to trans folk. When her contract was not renewed, Ms Forstater appealed to an employment tribunal with the express intent of turning “gender critical” (aka anti-trans) beliefs into a protected category.
The judge rules that while it was a sincerely held belief, it is one incompatible with a Democratic society and therefore not protected.
Ms Forstater has raised £80K and plans to appeal all the way to the UK Supremes.
Dr Kathleen Stock decided that this case is the one hill for all anti-trans academics to die on and is currently trying to rally support for Ms Forstater.
I do follow her, though I can’t say I’ve read every last public statement.
And I haven’t spotted anything, except for people crawling through her Twitter follows for evidence to hang her with. “She follows X, so she must support Y”, that sort of thing.
The sort of thing anyone on this forum could be judged guilty for, given some of our past visitors.
Hayton wore the T-shirt at an event organised by Fair Play for Women, a campaign group, in July.
“Fair Play for Women” doesn’t like trans people. Depending on the exclusivity of the “LGBT committee of the Trades Union Congress”, this (removing her from the committee) may simply be good politics, Her right to be on the committee may depend on the perception that she represents the interests of people with every right to be seriously annoyed.
Ms Hayton (apt name) is FPFW’s anti-trans uno card.
FPFW, contrary to their name, does not advocate for funding womens’ sports or health care. They’re a front for American evangelical groups, founded with the express goal of banning trans women from public life.
FPFW promotes shit like “Pronouns are Rohpynol” and contributed hugely to the Bathroom Moral Panic.
This isn’t the first time Ms Hayton has gone about insisting that Hayton believes that trans women are not women, either.
Weird how “feminist” groups in the UK keep turning out tone almost exclusively white, classier, anti-intersectional, anti-trans.
FPFW’s founder and director has some very shitty opinions about Caster Semeya, fwiw.
(For the record, there have been no Trans Olympians to date. Trans athletes have a difficult time competing because of low hormonal levels – cis women, for example, have 10x higher testosterone on average than trans women.)
There’s some kind of irony in this story, to be sure. For me it’s more that “trans woman who has been transitioned for 15 years denies that trans women are women”. Which I mean, sure, I guess that is bound to happen – you will find people with all sorts of opinions on their own races, genders, orientations, and so on – but it does seem odd in this case, since “believing you are really a woman” seems like it would be pretty integral to being a trans woman? I found her self-introduction on twitter, and that at least clarifies her take: gender is variable and we should let people express it how they want, but biological sex is binary and fixed and it’s a mistake to run things as if it were not.
What’s not clear to me is what the job in jeopardy actually is. Accusations of bigotry can certainly be weaponized even against the people they are supposed to protect – just look at who is being called anti-Semitic in the US these days – but it sounds like maybe Hayton is meant to represent trans* people? In which case it does seem like her ideology, which most biologists I’ve heard from seem to consider oversimplified to the point of falsehood and most trans* people I’ve heard from consider an attack, would make her a pretty awful fit for that role. Right now major sources are things like the Times and Telegraph, which as usual have no interest in considering any angle except PC nonsense has gone too far and don’t make any other concerns clear.
If you need to transition, you need to transition. Regardless of whether you believe that you are already a woman, or become one through transition, or can never actually become one. Gatekeepers sometimes require belief.
It frustrates me that Gendercrits often say we need to go through more gatekeeping and also need to stop saying we’re women.
