A Woman Is...

 

The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the definition of the word "woman" in Scotland will be based on biological sex. This identity is binary; one is either a man or woman and one cannot change one's mind because of a personal decision. Source: https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc_2024_0042_judgment_aea6c48cee.pdf. This is an incredibly controversial issue, probably the most controversial one in the Western world today; in fact it's the new racism. A lot of people have asked me what I think about this, but to be honest I couldn't give a damn. Like the Israel vs Palestine situation, this is an issue over which everybody is expected to pick a side, but I have not. Before anybody hurls a massive false guilt-trip on me, I agree with a lot of what the campaigners say. For instance, people who just say "I'm female" should not be sent to women's prisons. Trans critics should have the right to free speech protected by lawful force if necessary. What bothers me is the attitude to this issue many people have who really should know better. Sargon of Akkad, real name Carl Benjamin, has made a video praising the judgement, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbufgVbQaNY. This is not the first time he has planted his flag on the TERF's' soil, in fact he has collaborated a few times with Posie Parker, for example see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAJivZtmeE. Posie Parker, real name Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, has become the figurehead of the "adult human female" movement and is up on the pedestal of heroine status for far many others than her original supporters. She is lauded by the dissident right, people like Sargon. The praise she is lavished with is unbelievable. Charlie Veitch went to the recent Labour Party conference and attended her protest. There he called her a "lovely human being... strong woman culture!" Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGC6g7JHUi0. JK Rowling, Graham Linnehan, Julie Bindel and other "gender critics" have enjoyed almost as much reverence from the anti-wokists.

I don't think this holiday romance between the dissident right and the TERF's is going to end well. How it came about in the first place still baffles me. As I've said previously, there was a time when Sargon had what I think was a much healthier attitude to this dispute, as I wrote here: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/04/is-sargon-walking-into-trap.html. Why did he change? Why has he somehow forgotten what the F stands for in TERF? As for Posie Parker, I actually agree with a lot of what she says, especially her points related to children; but I don't think she is a very pleasant person. I get bad vibes off her, to use a popular expression. She strikes me as somebody who is really not very intelligent. I suspect that she would not be very sympathetic to Claire Rae Randall, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/12/programme-487-podcast-claire-rae-randall.html; in fact I doubt she could even comprehend Claire's arguments. At some point in the future this coalition of convenience is going to break down and the battle lines will return to their historical and very simple formation of feminists versus white men. However when that happens it will do so very rapidly, and Sargon and other dis-right TERF-fans will suddenly find themselves trapped behind enemy lines, giving away vital intelligence. By being chummy with the TERF's now they are making themselves, and by extension the rest of us, more vulnerable in the continuing long-term culture war.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.