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Boris Johnson’s statement on trans rights has been known by 90 per cent of the British people all along
ABOUT time. Boris Johnson has just stated something that 90 per cent of the British people have known all along — but were sometimes too scared to say.
He said men who have transitioned to being women should not compete against actual women in sporting events.
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He also said children are too young to make decisions about transitioning from one sex to another.
That last statement echoes the verdict of a High Court case two years ago.
At the same time, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has ruled that trans women can be excluded from female-only wards and toilets.
This has led to a mass of shrieking from the trans lobby. Not least NHS Equalities boss Tara Hewitt.
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Again, the EHRC is only echoing the public view and has taken a hell of a long time do so.
The current NHS policy is to allow trans women on female wards — which at the least makes many women feel uncomfortable.
One woman in a ward was raped by a trans woman.
The medical staff told the police it could not have happened, because there were no men on the ward. If they identify as a woman, they must be a woman, was the rule.
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But CCTV proved the rape DID happen.
Women who have complained about being on the same ward as transgendered women have been reported to the police for hate crimes. This is a grotesque absurdity.
But at last the fightback is under way. This isn’t about making life more unpleasant for transgendered people, many of whom suffer mental illnesses.
They should be allowed to live with dignity and free from discrimination.
It is instead about women’s rights. The rights of women to compete against other real women in sporting events, not against men.
The rights of women to feel safe when they are in a hospital bed.
The rights, too, of a child to be protected by the state from life-changing surgery he or she is too young to comprehend.
The youngest kids receiving treatment at our gender alignment clinics were just three years old.
Denial of logic
But it is also about recognising reality, at last. Facing facts.
A man who transitions to being a woman is not, in fact, a woman.
This isn’t about making life more unpleasant for transgendered people, many of whom suffer mental illnesses. They should be allowed to live with dignity and free from discrimination.
It doesn’t matter how long he might complain about gender pronouns.
It’s all there in the chromosomes, the musculature, the testosterone levels, the bones.
No matter how much we might wish to, we cannot change reality.
None of this means that men who feel more comfortable dressed as a woman should be treated to anything other than respect.
But when, after a bunch of operations, they claim to be as authentic a woman as one born with a womb, it’s time to say: “No. I’m afraid not. That makes no sense.”
It’s much as the brilliant feminist Germaine Greer once observed: “I’ve asked my doctor to give me long ears and liver spots and I’m going to wear a brown coat but that doesn’t turn me into a f***ing cocker spaniel.”
Like so much other propaganda spouted by the liberal Left, the stance on trans-genderism is incontestably deluded. A denial of logic, sense and rationality.
The vast mass of British people have known this for a very long while.
Isn’t it lovely that our betters are finally beginning to say the same thing?
Oh go on, pull the author one why don't you
NOW here’s a difficult one.
Gripped by the usual bonehead wokeness, Stirling University has dropped Jane Austen from its English literature curriculum.
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And replaced her with Toni Morrison, the far-left black American writer.
They say they are doing so to “decolonise” the curriculum. These people need lobotomies.
On the other hand, I do feel happy for the Stirling students.
I can’t think of any more overrated British writer than the mimsy, precious, middle-class and interminably boring Jane Austen.
Pride And Prejudice? I think I’d rather read my own death certificate.
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Causes put me in days
TODAY is a real problem for me.
Because it is International Beaver Day. But also International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
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Now, I like to commemorate all these named days.
But in this instance it is difficult to know which of these excellent causes deserves my attention.
Perhaps I could dress up as a beaver while telling people about the Rwandan genocide.
Or dress as a Hutu tribesman while telling people how nice beavers are. But both might be a bit crass.
I think they should keep it to one cause per day.
Or only combine them when they kind of fit together.
So, for example, they could postpone International Beaver Day until June 2, when it is also International Sex Workers’ Day.
I can see a way around that.
Act on it, Mac
RESPECT to the Czechs. They are bunging a bunch of tanks to the Ukrainians.
They do badly need them.
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But both Germany and France are lagging behind in the race to help Ukraine.
Deluded French President Emmanuel Macron thinks he is acting as an intermediary between the West and Moscow.
Putin takes no notice of him whatsoever.
With the Russians in retreat from around Kyiv, this is the time for Ukraine to take advantage.
And drive the Russians out of the town they have captured in the south of the country.
But they need more arms and better arms, ASAP.
Prince a poor judge
PRINCE CHARLES repeatedly begged PR advice from that now-dead albino nonce Jimmy Savile, apparently.
He described Savile as “the man who knows what’s going on”.
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You’re not kidding, Jug Ears. Charlie thought the bloke was great.
In fairness, none of us knew for certain in 1988 that Savile was a paedo.
Although some of us were still inclined to retch whenever he appeared on television, and quickly switched channels.
Ah well, the Judgment of Kings, eh, Charles?
Or the Judgment of Wannabe Kings.
BORIS JOHNSON has been speaking to the Russians — in pretty fluent Russian.
Telling them he can’t believe they agree with the war against Ukraine.
Begging them to listen to the news from beyond their shores.
Well, it’s a nice attempt, BoJo. But I don’t think it will do much good.
There’s no doubt the Russkies are fed a barrel of lies by Putin.
But by the same token, they WANT to believe them. They don’t want to think of their country as a murderous, gangster-led dictatorship.
And loads of studies have shown that people prefer to hear convenient lies rather than nasty truths.
The Russians are no different. They will continue to think that Ukraine started it all, with the help of Nato. And that the Russian soldiers are liberating angels.
Blame games
THE “no-fault divorce” laws have kicked in.
Now you can separate from your missus or hubby without any blame being attached.
Virtually all of the commentators say this is a brilliant thing. It will stop all the nasty arguments.
Maybe, maybe. But here’s my take. Everything which serves to make divorce easier ends up making things much worse for children.
Studies show kids are best brought up by their genetic parents who are married.
They don’t do half as well in single families or living with a step-parent.
A COUNCIL in Cornwall has cancelled daffodils — in case people EAT them.
This is St Blaise Town Council, near Truro.
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They decided they wouldn’t plant daffs, after going on a health and safety course, natch.
Where presumably some pencil-necked, joyless w**kpuffin told them the flowers could be toxic if eaten.
But who would eat them? Why would they?
They can be pretty weird down there. With excess fingers and toes and stuff.
But surely even the Cornish don’t go around munching daffodils?
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In Sainsbury’s. A Cadbury’s Creme Egg trifle. A big bowl of sickly death.
I’d prefer to eat daffodils.
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